honeypig

Sadie, try your local library. I don't know what it's like where you live, but in my neck of the woods, ALL libraries in my county are linked on one website. I can browse the entire catalog of every library in the county at one fell swoop, put anything I want on hold and have it sent to the library of my choice for pickup (and that is where I drop it off, too). It costs NOTHING and takes less than a week usually, unless the book is particularly new/popular and others are on the list for it.

I've found that most books mentioned here are available thru the library. I prefer to get the book from the library, read it and THEN decide whether I need to make it part of my permanent collection before I spend my hard-earned $$ on it.