Re: OT - Book Finding Services?


"Sofa - Spud" <comfysofas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 11 May, 18:21, "Tricky Dicky" <tri...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Fred Finisterre" <finiste...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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A few years ago I used Waterstones Book Finding service to find a couple
of
hard-to-find old 70s books. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to exist
anymore.
This was probably before Ebay took off, and all the modern book sites.

I'm now looking for something else. I've looked at a myriad of online
secondhand book dealers, and set-up alerts to get emails should they
list
the book in question - but with no luck over the last year or so.

Anyone know of any decent services with a good success rate? I've tried
everywhere online. Maybe I need an old guy in a dusty old bookshop to
hunt
it down for me.

Cheers,

Fred.

There is a huge warehouse in Temple Cloud just outside Bristol called
"The
Book Barn"

There are millions of books in there - I am not kidding - you would have
to
contact them and find out if they can search for titles, though - I just
browse

Is it open to the public?

Yep and they even have a coffee shop.

Seriously, I have never seen so many books and considering how many they
have it's a bloody miracle that they get the stock into sections. If you
wanted a 1974 Haynes Cortina manual then it's probably there - or every
single book that has ever been written by Isaac Asimov then they're probably
there - or the definitive guide to fog-throwing weapons of the third reich
during operation barborossa then they've probably got two

Tricky



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