Comments | xenokattz: Everything's cheaper in TEXAS

xenokattz

Everything's cheaper in TEXAS

May 16, 2010 16:22

GUYS, GUYS, GUYS! All ye Americans probably know this but Half-Price Books ZOMG. Do you know how much paperbacks cost in Canada? $11+sales tax on average. CAD is almost equal to USD. Just THINK about that, ye Americans, and you'll understand why I don't understand how people can buy, like, 100 books a year and then trade half.

$1-3 PER BOOK. HOLY

rl: travels

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xianghua May 17 2010, 01:08:21 UTC

Oh yeah! :) And Half Price Books has the giant store on Northwest Highway here. :) I forgot y'all don't have those!

xenokattz May 17 2010, 01:48:14 UTC

Guh! So. Much. GUH.

lilacsigil May 17 2010, 01:43:06 UTC

Only $11? *JEALOUS*

It's $25 plus tax on average here, and we're just about at parity with the $US at the moment.

xenokattz May 17 2010, 01:47:44 UTC

holyassbutt! $25? I feel better now. You poor, poor creatures!

lilacsigil May 17 2010, 01:55:28 UTC

Yep, and comics are $8-10 each.

xenokattz May 17 2010, 02:06:30 UTC

... That's inhuman.

yuvi May 17 2010, 13:38:51 UTC

I actually didn't know about it! O.o I will have to look and see if I have one near me!

januaried May 17 2010, 14:04:19 UTC

Is this a bookstore? Sweet.

In general, this is why I go to used bookstores and avoid the big name new bookstores like the plague. Also, have you ever been to Powell's in Portland? I promise you will find it utterly amazing. :D

xenokattz May 20 2010, 14:52:16 UTC

Yeah, I tend to borrow things from the library then buy from used book stores. It's only if I can't find it anywhere that I venture into the big stores. Oh, and if I want to browse for things I want to buy used/borrow from the library. ;)

Next time I'm in Portland, I'll have to look. Is Portland a creative mecca or something?

januaried May 20 2010, 14:54:56 UTC

Yep, libraries are the best. :D

I guess you could say that. They had a Stumptown Comics Convention or something like that recently, and Powells is called "The City of Books". It takes up an entire city block and is so awesome you can get lost in t here for an entire day.

http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=261

xenokattz May 20 2010, 14:57:01 UTC

OH KATE GEATON ILU SO HARD.

a
CITY BLOCK
of
books.

*dies of joygasm*

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spacellama May 18 2010, 17:02:13 UTC

I can hook you up with books. You are here in Texas?? Where?

xenokattz May 18 2010, 17:04:15 UTC

I'm in The Colony! But not the creepy one where you're forced to be happy, dammit, and you can't get out and your name becomes a number. It's just a normal city with a creepy name.

PS: Everything is So. Damn. Cheap. There's all you can eat pizza for $5 and all you can eat Japanese for $15 and WHOLE HOUSES WITH MULTIPLE BEDROOMS AND YARDS are under $200K!!! Do you know the living quarters you can buy with $200K in Vancouver? A Port-o-potty.