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What is the easiest way to find books that are out-of-print?

Asked by GD_Kimble (2285points) November 10th, 2006
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occ's avatar
i'm a big fan of alibris.com ...you can find all sorts of out-of-print books and the prices are really reasonable.
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Peter's avatar
I'm not sure what sort of out-of-print books you are looking for, and whether you want to own them or read them, but http://www.octavo.com/ is an interesting compendium of some very rare books, scanned and in PDF... a pet project of John Warnock, previous CEO of Adobe, and book collector. Not vast, and not all that easy to read... but pretty.
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occ's avatar
also if you know anyone who is a grad student, you can ask them to use inter-library loan to borrow books from any academic library in the country...which gives you access to basically every book ever published...
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I would try Powell's in Portland. Also Orca in Olympia, WA
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Powells.com
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bebes's avatar
All the books I've found that are out of print are from borders.com
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GD_Kimble's avatar
thanks much
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sjg102379's avatar
abebooks.com is a good website, too
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