Bookshops In Phitsanulok

[KevinN]

Does any one know of any used book shops in Phitsanulok, I am in need of some reading material and it is a 9 hr. bus ride to Chiang Mai and we do go to Phitsanulok to buy some things from time to time.

[Bluecat]

Does any one know of any used book shops in Phitsanulok, I am in need of some reading material and it is a 9 hr. bus ride to Chiang Mai and we do go to Phitsanulok to buy some things from time to time.

I am too lazy to look on my map. Where is Phitsanulok?

[Georgie-Porgie]

The biggest city near Suko-Thai. Probably no real bookshops.

[tutsiwarrior]

maybe to extend the subject of the thread further are there any good used english language bookshops in BKK?...with a reasonable policy regarding trade-ins? I got about two large boxes of recently purchased Ruth Rendell, PD James, Elmore Leonard, James Ellroy, LeCarre, Ian Rankin and etc worth loads of dough to a book trader if I could find one to do business with...straight swap for stuff that I like to read...

Well???

[Bluecat]

maybe to extend the subject of the thread further are there any good used english language bookshops in BKK?...with a reasonable policy regarding trade-ins? I got about two large boxes of recently purchased Ruth Rendell, PD James, Elmore Leonard, James Ellroy, LeCarre, Ian Rankin and etc worth loads of dough to a book trader if I could find one to do business with...straight swap for stuff that I like to read...

Well???

Start the thread, Tutsi,...

[tutsiwarrior]

bluecat...get outta here...I don't want to start nothin'...if you and the others haven't yet noticed, I am a freeloader, not a doer...

[Jeepz]

Good luck tutsi, I don't know many book sellers that can keep their doors open by doing straight swaps.

Jeepz

[Bluecat]

bluecat...get outta here...I don't want to start nothin'...if you and the others haven't yet noticed, I am a freeloader, not a doer...

I don't think so Tutsi, do not underestimate yourself,...I am sure quite e few things are bothering you and the opinions of others are MOST welcome,...

[tutsiwarrior]

jeepz...regarding your comment about straight swaps...there was a used pornography vendor in Denver 30 years ago that managed to do a good business, large premises and all, friend of mine used to work there...the policy was that the pages must not stick together...

bluecat...my self esteem is intact and raging...I say these self deprecating things with a leer rather than a frown....

[Bluecat]

jeepz...regarding your comment about straight swaps...there was a used pornography vendor in Denver 30 years ago that managed to do a good business, large premises and all, friend of mine used to work there...the policy was that the pages must not stick together...

bluecat...my self esteem is intact and raging...I say these self deprecating things with a leer rather than a frown....

Jeez, Tutsi, please do not forget that some of us are not english educated,...

As much as I enjoy your comments ( ), you make them out of reach for most of 'us'.

Please, do not frown,...

[tutsiwarrior]

dr PP...Loooook!!!, they're doing it again...now I'm being chastised for using proper english...

will it ever end???

(in the grave tutsi,...in the grave)

[Bluecat]

dr PP...Loooook!!!, they're doing it again...now I'm being chastised for using proper english...

Proper english, most of the time but not all the time so please do not OVERESTIMATE yourself (but maybe, maybe, sometimes under some "influence" when you write,... )

[Jeepz]

Bluecat~

Sorry, I didn't mean to be incomprehensible. But I'm not sure what the problem you had with tutsi and my exchange. Swap simply means to trade items. A "straight swap" means one for one trade without any other consideration (money).

Tutsi~

Many bookstores offer credit, but normally I've seen something on the 2 for 1 line, you give them two used books, you get to take one used book home. I must come from the Ebenezer Scrooge school of business. Ideally, each transaction should make a profit. If I'm not taking cash payment on a trade, I need to make money not only on the item I sold, but on the item I accepted in trade as well.

Jeepz

[Bluecat]

Bluecat~

Sorry, I didn't mean to be incomprehensible. But I'm not sure what the problem you had with tutsi and my exchange. Swap simply means to trade items. A "straight swap" means one for one trade without any other consideration (money).

You are not but for some of the readers, the non english educated ones and by the way, for some of the english educated ones ( ), your comments are sometimes, sometimes not so easy to understand,...

[tutsiwarrior]

Jeepz...the way it used to be done in used bookshops in Berkeley many years ago (anyone ever been to Moe's?) you would bring in your books then after inspection the clerk would give you a credit that you could use to select other material. No money would ever change hands to prevent junkies and other undesireables from abusing the system with stolen goods.

An enlightened way of doing things in late 60s early 70s California...probably too much to expect in 21st century Thailand. Jeepz, are you into this specific line of business? Give me a bell on the email, let me know what you got to trade and we can do business.

[KevinN]

I have always done a lot of trading with used book shops,all over the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere, what with being snowed in in the rockys for 6 months a year, to living on a cruising sailboat and living in mexico for extended periods, and have never seen a straight across one for one swap,they have offered to swap and give me credit on books I have bought in CM, but I always give em to other farang here in my area and do some swapping,but we dont have enough farang that I know to keep me in reading.

[tutsiwarrior]

thanks, kev...I realize that a one-to-one is not doable but I got a lot of recently purchased (from airport book stores and locally from Asia Books in BKK) that I thought would give me greater credit. Probably not. As long as I get a fair deal with the credit then I'm OK. In California used book stores are mostly a hobby for their proprietors and no one cares about making lots of money...not the same around here.

Could also take the lot down to the British Council as a contribution to their library...but they would reject the lot as they are mostly by US authors!!! James Ellroy and Elmore Leonard wouldn't give a sh*t anyway.

Ellroy: 'silly white English bespeckled c*nt looks at the books distainfully...made a note to follow her home and waste her family...'

Leonard: protagonist says 'lets see dem books...look like you gots some gooduns here bro'...you ask how I gots the job in dis place?...just got out of stir in Hong Kong and dey needed some ethnic type to run dis library...'

all the best

[KevinN]

TUTSI; Yes I know of such shops,,when I lived in Ensenada I used to cross at the TECATE gate as Tijuana was so crowded and slow crossing, anyway in one of the small towns between San Diego and Tecate,there was a used book store run by a stone fox[but she never offered to trade what I really wanted] and I got some straight swaps from her,she had some good books and I sometimes could swap a once read that I had bought new with her,but sometimes in Sandpoint Idaho the shop there wouldn't even take back books that I had bought the month before from him.and I bought a lot of book there,ain't much you can do outside the cabin when you got 10 ft. min. snow on the ground cept maybe dig the trail up to the surface from the porch and run the sleds around to pack the yard.

[Jeepz]

Somebody ought to set up something along the lines of Netflix, but as a used book club. Netflix, for those unaware of it, allows you to rent (view) as many DVD's as you want, with a limit of four out at any one time. They do it by the mail here in the States. You pay a monthly membership fee. But you could forseeably view twenty or more flix a month for that fee.

A used book club that ran on the same principal for members, say ten bucks a month for annual membership and fifteen a month for 90 day membership would let you take three or four books at a time. Return one, you can take another, return all three and you take three more.

It would depend on the feasibility of books delivered by Thai mail, I suppose. Something I have zero experience with. Shipping would have to be charged too, of course. Dunno if it would fly, but it might, depending on Thai mail costs, and what it would cost to import used books. You can get a ton of them into a shipping container.

Just posting an idea. Might have a storefront and/or maybe do a website to select your books from. The Expat's Book Club or something along those lines.

Jeepz

[tutsiwarrior]

jeepz...I need to have a hard copy to take to bed with me so an online book service wouldn't do it....but yeah...if we are saying that a good second hand bookstore does not presently exist in BKK then that may be an activity that some enterprising person may want to get involved in...

kev...sounds like Idaho ain't got the same soul as northern baja california...stingy bastids versus attractive women with a good swap policy...I believe I'd take my McCullough and do the assh*ole a new 'un...

[Bluecat]

jeepz...I need to have a hard copy to take to bed with me so an online book service wouldn't do it....

Need to touch things, Tustsi, don't you?

Can relate to that,...

[tutsiwarrior]

bluecat...I got all I need in that regard...where's yours?

[Bluecat]

bluecat...I got all I need in that regard...where's yours?

You mean, good books?

[tutsiwarrior]

sure...everybody's got one in their hand when they get into bed...what do you got in yours?

(look out...tutsi's switching to school yard mode...)

[ovenman]

Does any one know of any used book shops in Phitsanulok, I am in need of some reading material and it is a 9 hr. bus ride to Chiang Mai and we do go to Phitsanulok to buy some things from time to time.

Dunno if you are going to find a used book store in Phitsanulok but the book store located on one of the upper floors of the Topland department store is a place to search for some reading material.

[Bluecat]

sure...everybody's got one in their hand when they get into bed...what do you got in yours?

Technology does wonders these days, have you ever heard about living books?

I've got quite a lively one. Asking me to go to bed now. OK, time to read, good night everybody,...

[KevinN]

I have found a few places in Phitsanulok that sell new books,USA jacket price plus.

But I have found some really good bookshops in CM,down by Thapae Gate in the farang tourist area. and I go there a couple times a year if I have a good reason,and books are a good reason and while there I go to a couple of AA meetings and renew friendships.Go over to FILMORE EAST and partake of a good USDA beef steak, buy some hard to get farang grub,go to the market in central and buy some good KIM CHEE and get a bus back home.

TUTSI; yea they do got some weird bastards in north Idaho,but ya gotta figure,they are still in the depression that started in 1929 and the rest of the usa was getting out of by 34. They could come here and work for Thai wages and think they was doin swell.

[haltes]

In bangkok check out thaibrary books, they have a library style system and a buy back system as well, look at www.thaibrary.com. They are on sukhumvit soi 24.

[ajahnlau]

Back to the subject, try the local pub. Lady Janes Pub is located down the road from Pailyn Hotel just before river on right hand side. You can borrow books for free, have a couple beers and pick your books. Quite a good selection.

[Up2U]

Tutsi - in Pattaya there are a couple of shops that do a two-for-one swap, but if that's too far to go, chat with 'Mine Host' at one of your local mission houses that has an expat clientele - maybe there would be shelf-space for a small lending library - bring two, take out one for a start - then regulars can get a one-to-one. Or maybe just a 50 baht reading fee (after a good deposit is registered, of course!) Or maybe there are other ideas ...... ???

(Can't help the original poster, don't know the up-country scene at all well)