Ladies and gentlemen, geeks and geekesses, and all you avid readers! If you've always been complaining about hiking shipping costs and unreasonable store prices of books, well have I got the perfect place for you to shop at.

http://www.bookdepository.co.uk

I found this on the Codex, and the prices are really reasonable. They've got a healthy selection of books (I haven't found a book I'm interested in that they don't stock). The best part is, shipping is free. Whether you live in Puerto Rico, the Isle of Man, or Singapore, it's free everywhere.

Well, yeah. That's it. Just wanted to let you guys know about this site.

The very first book I looked for, they didn't have. They did however link to a site where I could get it for £4.67... plus £15.70 for shipping.

It's been around for ages actually. More or less like Amazon.

Oops :$

(curiously, what book was it?)

Headcrash by Bruce Bethke. I lost my copy a few years ago.

This place comes highly recommended by me based on one order: I got the frickin' heavy, big and neat The Complete Far Side by Gary Larson for a pittance, 50 euro including postage (and it weighs about 10 kilos!!!). Will definitely order again once I have less that two gazillion books in my to-read pile.

I got the Amalure guide there, awesome price, fast delivery.

Just today I was whining to a friend about there not being a physical book store in my area and how buying online is too expensive. Thank you!

They lack the more unusual books I want (a German-only National Geographic book that I've only been able to find on Amazon DE/UK with atrocious shipping, for example), but they do have quite a few books I'm interested in for very reasonable prices. Definitely putting an order in for all these books I've been holding out on.

A great place I have used a number of times, and would recommend to anyone in the US, as their prices are usually the best, and their free shipping gets here in about as much time as it does shopping locally and using the book/media rate.

Why is there a $4 difference between the .co.uk site and the .com site?

Apparently the Guardian says they got bought out by Amazon a few years ago. So yeah.

loool when ever i order from the book depositary it takes ages to arrive now if posting to Australia or the states thats fine but 4 days to go half a mile looool (live literally down the road from the book depositary lol)

I love that site! If I can get books through them then that's where I get them.

Lol, they have Warhammer 40000 books only in Spanish.

Actually no, but I had to do the search as Warhammer 40,000.

Sounds like a fair few of my 2nd hand book searches - the USA is where one wants to be for a good second hand market. UK side you gotta be fast to nab things.

that said I tend to get good luck with Abe Books
http://www.abebooks.co.uk/