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Do you like read but don’t like to spend much money on books? Here are a few tips to trim down your budget on book spending:
- Find cheap pre-read books at church bazaars, library, or at yard sales.
- Go online at FrugalReader.com or Paperbackswap.com for trading books.
- Get a library card!
- Use your book club for book sharing. Each member could bring two books with names and return addresses, and everyone could forage for a good read.
- At many condo developments or vacation resort a book room is available for the residents to borrow and/or exchange books.
- Get audio books for long rides. Cracker Barrel Old Country Stores, located along interstates, will let you have book CDs for anywhere from $9.99 to $48.00. If you return the CD, they will refund your money minus $3.49 for each week you have had them.
- You can build a library of best-selling audio-books that start as low as 95 cents at the Apple Store if you own a Touch Ipod or IPhone.
- There is also a Netflix-like service for readers. BookSwim.com allows you to rent numbers of books each month and has no late fees.
- Sell your own pre-read books to a cheap used book store and earn credits towards future low cost books or buy your books at a charity thrift store for next to nothing and still donate to a worth cause at the same time!
- If you don’t mind reading books on your computer screen, you should check out Project Gutenberg where you can choose from among thousands of titles.
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