abebooks.com

So you want a book desperately that's been out of print for awhile. Where do you go? I went to Abe Books and was very happy with the results. The feel is friendly, white and very book-ish looking with menus on both side of the page and pictures ...

Pros: excellent source for finding out of print or hard to find copies of books
Cons: some sellers aren't always truthful about conditions of books

I was first turned onto Abebooks last Christmas when I was searching for a book as a gift. My partner had a favorite book as a child called 'Forest of Lilacs' by Countess De Segur with illustrations by Nicole Claveloux. It was one that her...

Pros: ease of use, number of choices, quality of service, low cost, just plain fun
Cons: not available as a universal household appliance

The Advanced Book Exchange, at www.abebooks.com (hereafter just, affectionately, 'Abe') has enabled me to find and acquire a score of truly obscure books without a single bad experience. I hope it receives a fee or royalty from my purchases...

December 2 of 2001, we watched on TV The Lost Battalion starring Rick Shroeder. While my husband and I are very much interested in what happened and what is happening regarding our country, this picture was especially more meaningful. You see,...

I've been using AbeBooks for several years. When my Mom asked me once to try to find an obscure out-of-print book for her, I tried Amazon and some of the other typical bookseller websites without luck. I heard of this wonderful resource, ...

abebooks.com is not a single store. Instead it is a clearing house for a number of other used book stores that have pooled their book title databases together to give the book buyer a huge selection of titles at varying prices. With the number of book...

Pros: numerous high-quality booksellers linked, search engine, easily customized, find almost anything here
Cons: none

I love books. I can not get enough of them.

Shhhh. Don't let my husband hear this. I will have to move into the shed so my books can live here.

I spent many years of my life looking for certain books. One of these books was...

My wife and I are both in school and we spend a lot of money on textbooks. So we are always in search of a cheap source for textbooks. My wife is especially patient with websites that offer cheap textbooks even if their customer service is below ...

I've had good experiences with Abebooks.com, but will not buy from them again. Abebooks.com works a bit like eBay; it is basically a website renting space for book sellers who don't have their own websites. It allows visitors to search for books from ...

Abebooks.com is not a strict vendor but a database for a multitude of booksellers to sell their books. That makes shopping experiences dependent on the individual sellers and not the site site itself. The vast majority of the sellers, like BookByte, ...

Need a book you can't find anywhere else? Abebooks will probably have a copy listed and available. Abebooks.com is a site through which hundreds of independent used book stores list their inventories. The advantage to this is that you can search ...

I recently ordered two books from AbeBooks.com. Once my email order confirmation arrived, I realized I had ordered an earlier edition of a book for which I absolutely need the latest edition. The website had not made clear which edition I was ordering. ...

I am having a horrible experience with Abebooks. I bought a Accounting book and opted for ground shipping. The seller was just 30miles aways from me and I have not received the book even after 20days of ordering. After repeatedly calling the customer ...

I have NEVER had a worse experience online than the experience I had with Abebooks. I ordered a book that I was to need for class. I placed my order two weeks before I needed the book. They accepted and confirmed my order, and then while I am waiting for ...

I have bought a few textbooks through Abebooks. Half of the time, the sellers are responsive and they deliver on time. The other half of the time, deliveries are a few days to weeks late, and I am begging my instructor for some slack in reading ...