If the shipping is more than 99p it would have been cheaper for you to buy it new.
12£ is just the book, no shipping included.
Making a X10 markup on something you bought from a charity is infuriating imo
And sorry for finding basic capitalism infuriating.
then_three_more@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 7 months ago
I’m curious, why are you putting the £ symbol after the number and not before?
ElCanut@jlai.lu 7 months ago
I’m sorry I’m not English so I’m used to Euros, I wasn’t sure if the £ was supposed to be before or after
Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 7 months ago
0.0£ at your local library.
Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Ah yes, libraries. Those mega buildings with every book on Earth inside…
Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The picture shows ISBN 9781784708276
I search this to get the title: “Entangled Life - How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures”
I see £, so I’m going to assume it’s the UK. I pitched Manchester as a city to search.
I search the book.
Seven 2021 versions, three 2020 versions, and audio book are available.
then_three_more@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Which means even if it’s not available in OPs local library they could go to their library and get it on an interlibrary loan.
prayer@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Based and librarypilled
tomi000@lemmy.world 7 months ago
OP said theyre from another country
pacmondo@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
You’re right. Since they don’t have every book ever written, why bother even looking?
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Lol.
Oh, yes let’s let perfection be the enemy of good.
It’s a rare thing I can’t get from my Library (mostly music and some movies), but anythinesucational and it’s there.
I regularly check out DVD collections from The Teaching Company of university courses - I’m talking Harvard, Columbia, etc. Currently have History of Western Civilization on deck for ripping. It’s 40 hours of lectures, the DVD collection would cost $1500 on the open market.
It’s one of dozens I’ve ripped for my own use, and converted to MP3 to listen when at gym or in the car.
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 7 months ago
Do your libraries not have a system to request books from other libraries? Not trying to be a jerk, I just have looked for some obscure things before and sometimes they had to be requested from other libraries.
Kodachrome@kbin.social 7 months ago
https://search.worldcat.org/ is a good inter-library search site. My librarians use it (among other things, I'm sure) to find books/DVDs to acquire for me on ILL, but since the site is public sometimes I just do the search for them and send them a link to what I want when I submit a hold request.
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Everytime i have been unable to find a book in the library i have asked the librarian and had it brough in from another library. i dont think there has ever been a book i wanted they didnt have somewhere in the chain