Now that I’ve shared Weirdest Place You’ve Read a Book, Part 1 and 2, I’m here to fill you in on some weird places people have bought books! For me? I’d say the “weirdest” would be the Dollar Tree and Ebay (and if you read this whole post, you’ll see I’m not the only one to get a book from Ebaby).
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Weirdest Place You’ve Bought a Book
Yard sale: https://itsareadingthing.org/
Book dispensing machine at airport: http://www.betweenmylines.com/
Bought? Train station in Paris I guess. Or ebay. Bought a mystery box on there and it’s definitely a weird place. Lol – http://www.herdingcats-burningsoup.com/
The weirdest place I’ve bought a book is the airport and that’s not weird at all – http://vivismessykitchen.com/
Bought? In a garden center. And it was not about gardening.- https://adancewithbooks.wordpress.com/
At a casino gift shop in Laughlin, Nevada- http://www.crystalblogsbooks.com/
There is an amazing used bookstore in Salem that has piles of old books everywhere! It fits the aesthetic of that town perfectly! – https://twitter.com/anythingnovel
Sam’s club? I’m not sure where the weirdest place I’ve bought a book. But I know I got one at Sams.- Courtney
Traders World lol – Hannah
I purchased a book in the last truck stop in Scotland before the English border. – Michelle
At a Perkins restaurant. It was a super racist kids book with the word “negro”in the title. I had to buy it and throw it out. – Sara from http://strandupdate.blogspot.com/
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Previous posts in this “series” include Weirdest Place You’ve Read a Book Part 1 and Part 2.
Haha I think I’m pretty boring because all my books are bought online or in a regular bookstore. I once bought books in a bookstore in Maastricht, Netherlands though, and the bookstore was made inside an old church which was gorgeous. Not weird maybe, but still really nice 😉
Hahaha I love Sara’s answer!
My weirdest might be the library. Haha. We have a huge library book sale, I think I might take the kids this year!
Interesting to read people’s answers! I don’t think I have any really weird stories…I’ve bought a book in an airport and from a dollar store before…and of course from thrift stores, those are some of my favorite places to buy books!
What a fun post!! I have definitely purchased books at the airport because I forgot to bring reading material with me for my travels. Love these posts (though my goodness—the last comment!! So glad Sara purchased that book just to throw it out!)
Book dispensing machine?! I gotta find one of those!
I’ve never seen a book dispensing machine- how cool! Love the gardening store and Perkins hahaha! I’ve been to that bookstore and purchased a book in that used bookstore in Salem! Love that place!
I don’t think i have brought mine in weird places. A gift shop on holiday in Tenerife? thats about it lol
Yard sales, thrift stores and grocery stores are as weird as I get. Love the idea of a book dispenser.
I honestly can’t recall any weird places that I’ve bought a book. But I’m totally intrigued by the airport book dispensing machine that someone mentioned! 🙂
This is so fun! I can’t think of the strangest place I’ve ever bought a book! I bought a coloring book at a Disc Golf course once, does that count? LOL
I’ve gotten a lot of my books on Ebay. It’s nice with older series because you can usually find the whole series for cheap on there. 🙂
This was interesting! I love the story about the Perkins book she bought just to get rid of. I don’t think I’ve bought a book anywhere weird, but I do love finding them for super cheap at garage sales!
This is a fun post! I once bought books from our school library (when I was in high school). They were on interior design and really outdated (from decades ago – think the Brady Bunch home). Anyway the Librarian sold me the entire set and I was thrilled with my bargain!
Still no idea why!
This was fun to read! I’m curious now what kind of book someone bought at a garden center that was NOT about gardening?!
Great post with some surprising answers. I was once sold a book off the back of a donkey whilst holidaying in Greece.
I love this! The garden center that isn’t about gardening is pretty weird! I think the weirdest place I have bought a book is at a thrift store? Not so weird but can’t think of anywhere else.
Sara’s answer was the best! I can’t really say I’ve ever bought a book at an unusual place, but I do think it’s odd that Lowe’s has kids’ books!
I don’t know that it’s weird, but I have found some great old books at garage sales.
I don’t think I ever bought a book from a weird place, but I love that book vending machines exist.
I’m always surprised when I see books being sold in a very unexpected place. Awesome post!!
I can’t think of when I bought a book in a weird place.
Karen @ For What It’s Worth
Oh this is fun! I was thinking that Sam’s is probably the weirdest for me too, but now I really need to think about it- and perhaps try harder to buy books in weird places 😀
I am trying to think if I have ever bought a book someplace that I would consider weird. I have bought a lot at yard sales, Goodwill, bookstores, and discount stores. I bought a kindle book on the highway headed to Chicago but I don’t think that is what you meant.
Some cool places. I am trying to think. I guess the weirdest place was a drugstore as I really don’t look for books there, but they had some sort of clearance going on.
I can’t think of any weird places I’ve bought books. I’ve bought them lots of places — through online book clubs, at garage sales, bookstores (of course), Sams, online, library sales, used bookstores, book fairs, Scholastic warehouse sales, etc. But none of those seem all that strange to me.
Interesting answers! I think the weirdest for me might be thrift shops or antique stores, which isn’t weird I suppose, but you never know what you’re gonna find in those places!
I once lived in a small town where they had a hole in the wall book store… I found loads of cool and crazy books in there… I still miss it. Ebay really isn’t too crazy, I’ve looked at books on there in the past. ❤️
I’ve seen a book vending machine from afar and SO wanted to buy one in it but couldn’t get through security at the airport to reach it. *flails*
I’ve never heard of a book vending machine!! That sounds super cool! Weirdest place I bought a book was from a homeless person I think.
Kay xx
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Haha those are some good ones! Let me think…. In a museum about toilets? Don’t ask anymore specifics 🙂
I don’t think I’ve bought books from places I would consider weird. Does a thrift store count? I used to find SO many gems in those thrift stores! I loved it 🙂
Wow! I want a book dispensing machine! ha 🙂
A book vending machine sounds brilliant! I can’t really think of any weird places I’ve bought books. I guess maybe either the grocery store or maybe the pharmacy.
I don’t think there’s ever been a weird place where I bought a book. I feel like this means I need to find a weird place to buy a book and do it, ha ha
I think I like the one about buying the racist book and throwing it out the most 😀 well done. Hmm… I don’t know what’s the weirdest place I’ve bought a book cause I mostly buy for the Kindle nowadays. I’m sure there must have been one earlier, but I just don’t remember 😀
I might have bought a book from eBay before… I’ve definitely bought now-out of print books from my childhood before, but I can’t remember if I got them from eBay or Amazon…
This is fun! But I don’t think I’ve bought books in any interesting places. Probably just book stores and yard sales and school book fairs and online lol.
Car boot sales and charity shops. I love the unexpected finds.
What a great post. I don’t think I really get books from any unusual places, to be honest. I tend to buy them at a shop and a few ebay ones for those I can’t seem to find anywhere. I did get lucky and get a couple of used books on Amazon which were signed, which was lucky. One of those was a personalised signed book, though, which made me feel weird because that person got rid of a book which was personalised for them, I don’t think I could ever do that. Even if I didn’t enjoy the book.
I’m not sure the weirdest place I’ve bought a book – I must be quite boring! #bloggersbest