I found a site that is even cheaper: https://z-lib.org/
Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
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Re: Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
#112"Cheapest" is not in my criteria. When I share book links I always take the time to find the original publisher and / or author's website and pass that around. Pay an extra dollar, where it is also more likely that more of that flows to the author/publisher. It is very easy to do a book search, find Amazon or Goodreads in top results, nice cheap and quick delivery, and just share that around. And helping the utter dominance of Amazon to become even worse.
Re: Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
#113"Cheapest" is not in my criteria. When I share book links I always take the time to find the original publisher and / or author's website and pass that around. Pay an extra dollar, where it is also more likely that more of that flows to the author/publisher. It is very easy to do a book search, find Amazon or Goodreads in top results, nice cheap and quick delivery, and just share that around. And helping the utter do…
Thanks for your comment. To address Amazon's supremacy I'm working on a "No Amazon" filter that ignores Amazon and any Amazon subsidiaries.
Re: Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
#114Great post. As an aside the cheapest place I ever found to buy a book was the country India. Books at literally a fraction of the price you would pay in Europe or the USA...
Thanks! Once I'm done accommodating more regions into the tool, it should also allow filters for international shipping which will ofcourse have much higher delivery times but as you say will often be significantly cheaper overall.
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#115Using my FF with some privacy/adblocking extensions - clicking on every (affiliate) link resulted in a connection failed error. #my2cents
Yes it seems some adblocking extensions interfere with the affiliate linking, I'm going to build something that detects adblockers and then gives the raw link if an adblocker is active. Should fix your UX issues in your normal browser.
Re: Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
#116On your prices, if the amount ends with a 0, you lop it off. So $12.40 becomes 12.4. Dollar prices require two decimals.
Yes that's something the program seems to be doing automatically. I'll add a check at the end to make sure that doesn't happen.
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#117fwiw I saw some DVD's listed, the search was for a book that was made into a film. I guess they can be removed if looking closer at the EAN/UPC. Also, nice work.
Re: Show HN: I built a site that finds the cheapest place to buy a book
#118"Cheapest" is not in my criteria. When I share book links I always take the time to find the original publisher and / or author's website and pass that around. Pay an extra dollar, where it is also more likely that more of that flows to the author/publisher. It is very easy to do a book search, find Amazon or Goodreads in top results, nice cheap and quick delivery, and just share that around. And helping the utter do…
Thanks for your comment. To address Amazon's supremacy I'm working on a "No Amazon" filter that ignores Amazon and any Amazon subsidiaries.
That is great! Yes, I'd love to see that, thank you.
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#119US only.
Working on other regions, unfortunately I have to do it region by region which slows me down. Should have 3-4 more regions up by the end of the week and I'll be adding about 2 a week afterwards for the next few weeks.
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#120also https://bookfinder.com
Yes bookfinder.com is great. For French books I also like https://www.chasse-aux-livres.fr/ which also search in some local french websites for used books.