How much are you willing to pay for a book?
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@Karusa (704)
Italy
December 3, 2023 7:19am CST
I like to get my hands on the cheapest edition I can in the best condition at that price. If the words in the book are the same as a more expensive one, I’m getting a better value, in my opinion. Then if it’s a story that becomes really important to me I might consider upgrading to a “nicer” or collectors version, and keep the old ones as lender books.
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@yukimori (10144)
• United States
3 Dec
For me, it all depends on the book. My current Kindle book wishlist on Amazon has about 70 titles on it last I counted. Most of those are older books that I've already read and/or own/used to own a physical copy of, so I'm not in a hurry to buy them. I stick to a fairly firm limit of $1.99 for those, but there was one that I nabbed for $2.99 because I wanted to read it again a few months ago.
For the new and newish releases on the list, I'll go as high as $14.99 or so if I'm not willing to wait a while until the price drops.
I'm only like that with books for me, though... if my kids want a book, they tend to get the book regardless of what the price is. 
@AmbiePam (85627)
• United States
3 Dec
The most I have ever paid for a book is $25. With my income, I can’t pay more than that. I remember my late mom found a collector’s version of a book my dad loved as a child, and she paid $100. That was actually a good deal, and now it is worth $600. He’d never sell it though.
@snowy22315 (170186)
• United States
3 Dec
These days not a lot. I don't really know what the most I ever paid for a book was for myself...paid a flipping fortune for textbooks in college, but most of that didn't come out of my pocket fortunately.
@ShyBear88 (59285)
• Sterling, Virginia
3 Dec
Not true, if there is multiple edition the original will be way more. Yes, the condition of it will change its princes but a newer edition will have changes, so the words might not be the same as the first original edition.
Me I don't really buy physical books so I don't have to worry about the pricing so much since the things I like to read would never coast the same as some of the classics.
