http://mikeintaipei.blogspot.com/2011/12/cheapest-math-book-i-ever-bought.html
there are other second hand stores in Taipei. One 'chain' of 6 stores is run by a Catholic charity..
their website is at:
http://www.kjswf.org.tw/secondhand.html
In the past month, I made it a project to visit every one of them. It was a good way of getting out to see more of Taipei. Although the website is in Chinese, I could cut and paste the addresses of each store into google maps. Google maps would take the Chinese address and return with a map in English and Chinese of where the store was located. A man with a map is never lost.
The GuTing and DaZhi branches were in subway stations so they were easy to find but small. The GengShen branch was in a Catholic run hospital and was also small. Here is the GuTing store:
The BanQiao, GuoXing and ZhongXiao stores were bigger and a little harder to find.
ZhongXiao Store
GuoXing store
There are other second hand stores but they are harder to find. I come across them just by accident. Here is one on ZhongHua road in XinDian which sell donations from Japanese expatriates. This is always a problem when living in a foreign country, what do you do with all the stuff you've accumulated and can't take back to your home country?
Mike, I have friends here in Tucson who have favorite second hand stores that they frequent. They tend to look for sewing notions donated by families of dead sewists. I have been meaning to give it a try. There are many Goodwill stores around here, as well as other thrift store chains. Three are within walking distance. It seems like I'm always donating things to them instead of buying. Shopping there has much of the fun of garage sales.
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