Book Hunt

I am a fan of Amazon.com. I like doing searches there and seeing what books are there to buy. Aside from some downloadable ebooks though, I haven't purchased anything else there yet. The price of the books, the shipping cost, the worry of whether I will really get the shipment, have always stopped me from making a purchase, no matter how much I wanted them books.

A few months ago I came across nationalbookstore.com.ph and have since been an avid visitor. What can I say, this is more real. You can do the same searches and find books within your buying range. And, you can either purchase them online using your credit card or G-cash, or you may go to the nearest National Book Store and buy them there. Shipping costs are quite reasonable too.

In fact, "cheap" me did a search for books priced between P1 to P200 and found some very interesting reads, for me at least. This include:

• 2000 Word Drills by Gregorio Ching at just P90;
• A Pocket Book of Short Stories by Simon and Schuster at P85;
• Aling Charing's Filipino and Foreign Recipes by Rosario Fabian at P160;
• Arabic Reading, Writing and Grammar by Mohammad Tuusi at P85;
• Attitudes that Attract Success by Wayne Cordeiro at P175;
• Basic First Aid by the National Safety Council at P175;
• Basic Japanese by Yukihiro Shimamura at P99.50;
• Business Writing: Barnes and Noble College Outline Series at P135;
• Cat and Dog Theology: Rethinking with our Master by Bob Sjogren and Gerald Robison at P200; and
  
• Chinese Proverbs by Gregorio Ching at P135.

This is just an initial list. I am not even half-way through the search results yet. This is just to show what you can get for money equivalent to a meal or two at your favorite fastfood house. Yes, there are a lot of things you can read online and for free, but if you are like me, there is nothing like holding a book with your own hands and going through its pages one by one. Nothing, really.