Chris Olson - SunPS <Chrisf.Olson at Sun.COM> wrote: [snip: used book stores] > These and just calling around are how I found > Phoenix, Athyra, and a couple of other out-of- > print Brust books (including the "Choose-your-own- > adventure" one...:) > > And wherever possible, shop at an independent!! <grin> Heh... thanks for the suggestions. There's just two little problems with that, though you couldn't really know... ^^; <OT-rant> First: I live in Europe, Germany to be precise. abebooks would be the only used book seller I know that I could use, because there's abebooks.de. With all other stores I'd have real trouble with the payment. No credit card, you see? ^^; Getting a credit card would cost me money I don't want to spend. And foreign checks cost as much as two paperbacks - new ones, that is - if they are accepted at all. And after all that, shipping costs would still kill me. Not to mention the 8+ weeks of waiting till the stuff arrives. Second: Did you notice the prices at abebooks?!? $20 up to $75 for a MMPB! A little bit more than I am prepared to spend... better wait for the $14-for-two-books deal ^^; </OT-rant> So you see, finding english *out-of-print* books over here is one of the most complicated and *expensive* pastimes I could imagine, if you don't get extremely lucky ;) For everything else there's amazon.de: a reasonable exchange rate, no costs for payment and no costs for shipping at all. So no probs with any new books :P ~Sebastian, nonetheless always open to suggestions ;)