You don’t need to be a bookworm to take part in this.
Marshall Cavendish will be holding a Big Box Sale next week from 28 May to 1 Jun 2015.
That means you can fill up a carton full of books for as much as you can carry for just $20. (Up to 95% off)
That’s a MASSIVE sale considering an average book will cost between $20 to $30.
You will be spoilt for choice with their wide range of books from cookbooks, children’s books to business and history books.
Check out the details below:
Take a look at their 2015’s catalogue here: http://bit.ly/1LktqiP to have an idea of the books they are carrying. (although they may not be available during the sale)
Like Marshall Cavendish on Facebook and show it to their staff during the sale to redeem limited edition premiums (choose between a tote bag, a set of coasters or a passport holder).
Share this post and bring someone (hopefully strong and fit) along to grab as many books as you can!
Living on the fast-paced millennia, audiobooks combined the best of two worlds namely: text of a good book and the convenience of listening to it. It certainly saves time, effort, and money. But audiobooks are not always inexpensive. Fortunately there are websites that offer the beauty of audiobooks for free. Here are some good ones…
Librovox asks a group of people to volunteer different parts of the books. This is why you can listen to diverse voices in just one book. But you can search for “solo” if you prefer a singular voice for the whole book. Authors, genres, titles, and languages sort the Audiobooks. The addition of various spoken languages increased the book selection.
Loyal Books offers books for all ages especially to those who love the classics. Most of the books are free because they want the company values the importance of books in our lives. The website offers audiobooks in MP3 or MP4 format. Searching for books is easy as they are organized by top 100, genre, and language. You can also search for a specific book through their “Google search bar”. Good books are easy to separate from the not so good ones because they are all rated and reviewed.
Open Culture is a neat website for educational, cultural, and historical media. From Astronomy, to Economics, and Political Science – they have it all for free. Majorly devoting on the classics, the audiobooks are arranged by genre, and are alphabetically listed following the author’s last name. Also, it allows you to download free courses from various universities in MP3 format or podcasts.
Lit2Go is a well-organized website that gives not just a selection of poems and novels but also its background information. Most of the classic selections, such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Anne of Green Gables are available to download on iTunes. The audiobooks can easily be downloaded in PDF form too so that you can read along or have a guide for your homework’s.
Have you ever thought that Cyberpunk audiobook category is possible? Well it is. Podiobooks offer some of the unique books that are beyond the classics. Browse books by author, genre, new releases, title, and award-winning collections.
Image Credits: The Preiser Project via Flickr
Best of all? The Podiobooks is available to navigate on your Smartphone so you can download and listen simultaneously anytime and anywhere.
If you’re a booklover and a voracious reader, chances are that you spend way too much money on books, with an average paperback book going for about $15 in the local big bookstores. It can be difficult to read as much as you would like with the costs involved, so here are some ways to save money while reading books!
1) Online retailers
Often, you can save a good deal of money simply by buying the books online, where prices can be up to 50% cheaper than the retail price in Singapore bookstores.
Some popular options are: Bookdepository.com, an international site that offers free shipping to your doorstep, and carries a very wide range of all books;
local online retailer, OpenTrolley, which allows local pickup at a retail location, or shipping for a fee.
Other common options are eBay and Amazon, however, beware of shipping costs for these options.
When buying books online, be sure to also check out oo.sg, which searches all these online retailers and more, including Kinokuniya and Popular online, for your specific book and allows you to comparison shop for the cheapest price.
Generally, my go-to book retailer is BookDepository as they usually offer the most competitive prices with a large range of options.
Be sure also to check out the different editions of the book, as the softcover is usually cheaper than the hardcover.
2) Book Sales
The popular bookstore chains in Singapore, such as Times and MPH, regularly have warehouse sales a few times a year, either at the Singapore Expo or other locations. Be sure to keep updated on when the next sale will be so as to be able to grab books for really low prices, like $5 each new, or even lower!
3) Secondhand books online
There are a few options I would recommend for buying secondhand books online. Sites like secondhandbooks.com.sg or bookfishing.com.sg are frequently updated and have a good number of books listed by sellers.
Recently, the Carousell application has also seen quite a lot of use for buying and selling books, which is another option you may want to consider.
4) Secondhand bookstores
There are a few secondhand bookstores currently operating in Singapore, although they are a dying breed, and a few have closed their shutters. Bras Basah Complex is one place where you may go to find secondhand books and textbooks.
5) Book exchanges
If you’re looking to clear some of the unwanted books lying around your house, why not try to swap them?
For instance, the NLB has an annual book exchange where we can exchange our unwanted books for other donated books. You may also have some luck trying to swap books online.
6) Ebooks
Buying an eBook may not necessarily require you to purchase an expensive eReader! There are many eBook readers available for free to download on your smartphone or your computer. Ebooks are also significantly cheaper than physical books, and usually cost you a couple of dollars at most. Just be sure to convert your eBook into the desired file format for your downloaded eReader (ePub is generally able to be read by most eReaders).
Reading doesn’t have to burn a hole in your pocket, but with these tips, books may start to take up way more space than availabe in your house!
