Books, Acquisition Of

In the comments to the last "This Week's Acquisitions" post, Wol asked the million-dollar question: where are all the books from?

• I do try to support the local indie bookseller, where I buy fiction. 
• In Rochester, I occasionally scour the shelves at Brown Bag Bookshop (very good for contemporary fiction) and Greenwood Books (the most substantial academic bookseller in town). 
• Even more occasionally, a colleague and I trek to Ithaca--it's about two hours from here--to hunt wild scholarly books in their lairs.
• When in Chicago, I head for Powell's (the Hyde Park and Burnham Park stores, usually) and my former employer, the Seminary Co-Op.

That being said, I do most of my purchasing via the Internet:

• Most of the antiquarian stuff (tracts, sermons, novels, etc.) comes courtesy of eBay.  I must say that eBay yields slim pickings when it comes to interesting academic books, although that's the nature of the auction beast, I suppose. 
• I also buy older books through AddAll. 
• I'm a relentless Amazonian, but almost always just to use the secondhand dealers--which is the only way any human being can afford scholarly books these days.  (I buy virtually everything secondhand or remaindered.)
• I occasionally buy from the Labyrinth Books Sales Annex and other academic remainder services.

Last, but not least, there's singing for my supper:

• I'm a staff reviewer for the library journal Choice, which yields about a book per month.  As you might expect, the books that show up can be pretty random--Cambridge University Press one month, Edwin Mellen the next...