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Books For Less
Category: Shopping Books, Mags, Music and Video Bookstores Bookstores [Edit]
2815 Buford DrSte 108
Buford, GA 30519
(770) 945-9288
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- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
3 reviews for Books For Less
3 reviews in English
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Review from Sarah E.
Lawrenceville, GA
5/19/2010
I decided during dinner tonight that I wanted to pick up a particular book. At which point it occurred to me that even though I've lived out here for since last August, I still don't know where the nearest bookstore is.
Then I remembered that I'd spotted this smallish-looking bookstore near the intersection of Old Peachtree Road and Buford Drive. I wasn't sure they'd have the book I wanted, but decided to check it out. I walked in expecting something similar to the Book Nook store I used to love visiting as a kid and young adult - a smallish store packed to the gills with disorganized shelves that held a jumble of used books.
Instead, the store was much larger than I expected. They sell a combination of new (but generally still discounted) and used books (at a variety of prices depending on level of use). The books were organized clearly into sections and the shelves were easy to navigate and peruse. I immediately found the book I was looking for, with a much lower price tag than I'd expected.
My husband was with me and he was impressed as well. We weren't in there long, but we'll definitely be back. While the nice cashier was ringing up my purchase, he informed me that I can bring in used books for credit towards future purchases. I also saw a sign that indicated that they can special order anything that's still in print if they don't have it in the store already.
There's a cute coffee shop adjoining the bookstore. I didn't get a chance to visit it this time but will do my best to stop by for a cup of something next time. I don't know why I'd bother finding a chain bookstore in my area with this great place just around the corner from me! -
Review from Priscilla B.
Buford, GA
12/3/2010 2 Check-ins Here
This is one of my favorite little shops. The staff is very nice and professional. As far as the selection, I thought it was pretty good. Plus they can order any book for you and it arrives very quickly. Also the points system they have going on is great. Bring in used books or just keep purchasing them from here and you get a significant discount off the already low price!
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Review from C S.
Nashville, TN
6/20/2009
The fact that I have more curiosity (or need to to not miss out on anything as to better feel like Im culturally significant) then most of my friends and due to the fact that I only have a few friends so far in this new town, I spend a lot of time driving to new places, sticking my nose in and seeing whats going on.
My life growing up, back in Alabama, I would just stare into the food pantry over and over for many minutes at a time not really hungry and not really sure what I was looking for, only knowing I was looking to fill a void and I usually did with a Pop-Tart or bowl of Captain Crunch (peanut butter.) Much in that same way, I will drive 3 or 4 hours in any direction with an ipod full of audio books and stand-up. I will fill up on regular gas and fast food to fuel my escapade and to temporarily rock my low self-esteem to sleep with sugar. All for reasons Im not sure of but, doing it damn near daily and always looking again and again for something, never finding it or why Im looking for it.
Though this gets me around and familiar with how the roads connect and how I can slowly build my back road mental map and how it helps me taste what different neighborhoods have to offer, in local foods, with choices and flavors displaying the personalities and history of the owners and workers, it takes up a lot of money and energy, these short trips carry me across people with spider web tattoos covering their bald head that are only out sized by the slow smile across their face or the more than once occasion of watching an employee be courteous and overly helpful to customers who, would seem to me, were lonely and stretching out their visit to get a conversation in and try and share some stories about themselves, sharing some lessons and funny stories that they have come across in their chapter of Earths silly little book.
You constantly get the chance to learn from other people and measure yourself and see how you can improve, which is, perhaps, one of the reasons I do it.
Sometimes your just over all of it. Fuck not relaxing, fuck people, and fuck improving yourself, let some of these other, needing, assholes work on it for a while. These are the times I go for a book and some coffee while sitting outside somewhere.
I came across Books for Less the other day looking to see if anything struck me to pick-up to read. This place is in Buford so for most people its going to be a far out drive and Im not sure about used book stores closer to town but, check it out if your in the mood to cruise and check out what else is going on. Oh, and bring some books to trade in as well, makes the deal even better. I have to say that this is one of the better used book stores Ive come across. The prices are reasonable and they have a pretty decent selection with a coffee shop attached to it. While I shopped around, at 9 in the morning, with the only two other customers both being in their late sixties or early seventies and digging through the military and classics sections respectfully like 5 year olds with shit grins like it was the chilled A.M. sand on the Jersey Shore on their first day at the beach of the year, I causally searched around while thinking about how awesome it is to see old men who are just so confident about the fact they are alive and how they will find pleasure in it, even if its by old military books that are most likely filled with propaganda.
I scavenged for some books by Eric Hoffer or Jacques Ellul and this damn music book by W.A. Mathieu, that Ive been looking for for about a year and refuse to order online, cause I havnt know how long Ill be living at any particular place, for some while now. I found none of these books but, I will have to say in a cheesy way that I did find a place Ill come back too and see what new books they have and perhaps drink some coffee and watch old men in the most non-creepy way possible, as they open and look through various books, tucking smiles in the creases as they put them back and as they walk around to the next batch of books with their hands in their pockets, leaning in hard to the shelf, heads creaked up with mouths dropped open as their ears fight to pull their glasses back up top their noses, smile quietly, full of a mornings possibilities.
