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Veronica
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book search engines

Post by Veronica » Mon March 28th, 2011, 3:52 am

Thought I'd share this website I found today as it might come in handy for you who are looking for that special out of print book/second hand book/new book or just browsing.

http://www.booksandcollectibles.com.au/ ... gines.html

I have not checked them all out properly yet but like these two in particular:

http://www.bookshops.com.au/ this one contains second hand bookshops in Australia and it seems like most of them will send books overseas.

http://www.bookfinder.com/
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MLE (Emily Cotton)
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Post by MLE (Emily Cotton) » Mon March 28th, 2011, 5:47 am

I use bookfinder all the time. some of the research texts my rabbit-trails take me on are really obscure, but bookfinder is the best resource for tracking odd oop manuscripts down.

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Post by wishes09 » Fri April 1st, 2011, 11:22 pm

[quote=""Veronica""]Thought I'd share this website I found today as it might come in handy for you who are looking for that special out of print book/second hand book/new book or just browsing.

http://www.booksandcollectibles.com.au/ ... gines.html

I have not checked them all out properly yet but like these two in particular:

http://www.bookshops.com.au/ this one contains second hand bookshops in Australia and it seems like most of them will send books overseas.

http://www.bookfinder.com/[/quote]

thanks for the links

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Post by Misfit » Sat April 2nd, 2011, 12:06 am

[quote=""wishes09""]thanks for the links[/quote]

Hi wishes09, welcome aboard.

I haven't used it a lot, but Fetchbook will search online sites for the lowest price available.
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