I may not look like it, but I buy books too! hahaha! I'm no bookworm but I read from time to time if I feel like it, or if I'm really interested in a particular topic or book, picky is what you call it.
History of it was, I got influenced by my classmates, they brag about buying artbooks at a cheap price in booksale store.
Truth be told every time we are in booksale, they'd race to look for art books while I casually go to the manga section 😆 HAHAHA! I wasn't that hype yet until our thesis subject in 4th year came along, that was the time I felt the importance of owning one and how convenient it is, thus I joined their art books hunting.
This day, I was just planning to look around booksale, and I saw one art book and led to another, I found (7) seven art books on those random shelves and planned to buy them all, Impulsive buyer however, one was written in French, so I had to put it back sad... Some cost around 200-300PHP (3-7 USD) for thin books while the thicker ones are 500-800 PHP (9-15.77 USD).
While I was at the counter I asked the cashier if there was a discount, she said 10% off if my purchase reaches 1,000 PHP (20 USD) which actually exceeded, I got 300PHP (5.50 USD) saved from my purchase! yey!
oh wait make that 4.68 USD since I got charged with the bag 😆 which costs 45 PHP (0.83 USD), so expensive for a bag, they should have given me a free one since I bought a lot, hahaha then while going to the parking lot area, the bag gave in 😭 my books were way too heavy! It was a good thing I was almost in the car.
These kinds of art books are costly especially when it's in national bookstore or in fullybook so my alternative store is booksale, which produces secondhand books that are still in good use, especially art books, although you can see some little rips in the covers but all good inside ~
As they say ~ don't judge a book by its cover! 🤣
These secondhand art books smells like bargain and has "OLD BUT GOLD" vibes jk ✌️🤣