Play.com for books

Hi, I saw in the "Letting off steam" Forum that people were complaining about the delivery charges for books from Amazon.

www.Play.com now sell books and have free delivery worldwide, might be worth checking them out.

I also note that Reads on Nassau Street in Dublin have the cheapest books around according to a survey in The Irish Independent yesterday.

iu buy a lot form play and love them

i buy books as well, the only things on their website they wont send to ireland is the gadgets

But (as I discovered recently in my search for a poker book) they dont have nearly as big a selection as amazon. Still good though. Cant knock free delivery.

ickle birdie told me amazon are close to finishing their irish base.

Play have been selling books for quite some time, I have often used them with no complaints. Only issue for me is that they have less stock (variety) than Amazon.

Similar to Reads of Nassau Street so. If what you're looking for is a 'Top 10' title, then you'd be mad to go elsewhere.

As posted in another thread, Reads was cheaper than Waterstones on the cost of 2 books, by €10.

I ordered 4 books off play in November, of which 3 arrived quickly. I flagged the non-delivery of the 4th with them and they have promised to send a replacement, no quibble.

I buy from both play.com and amazon.co.uk. The range of stock is one disadvantage of play.com but their delivery is slower and less reliable than amazon too in my experience. So if I really need a book by a certain date, I'd be more inclined to pay the premium and go with amazon.

Tesco and [broken link removed] still work out the cheapest but their range is VERY restricted but you can still be really lucky, particularly with The Book People's bundles of books. On my last order I got 35 proper books for around €100.

Don't know why but Enable Ireland always seem to have a range of second hand books that suit me (literary fiction / "modern classics") more than any other charity shop (although we don't have Oxfam, which I know are good too).

Rebecca