Book is one of my most favorite craze. I have a small library in my room and I cant go to sleep without reading any fiction.
To choose books my first preference always is theKolkata Book Fair.Actually I at all times desire to purchase any unknown book after reading its short description about the book in the back/front cover of the book. The book fair gives me the chance to touch the book, read about the book & decide about it in that certain place.
To buy books one factor works very much, i.e. discount. Kolkata Book Fair generally allows discount of 10%. But the shop of the publishing house gives usually 20% discount. That is why I purchase books from the publishing house. In the case of foreign books which cant be available in the open market I prefer book fair.
In our city, College Street is very popular place of book purchasing. Offices and shops of the most publishing house of Calcutta are at this place.
**Landmark, Penguin, Oxford** book store etc are the most popular place of purchasing books of other languages beside Bengali.
I buy some magazines from the street shops. Before traveling in far places through trains I buy books from the stores of the station shops. And now I have purchased some books from internet. The sites like amazon.com, indiatimes.com, etc has some fair collection of books. I like the process. Perhaps this is the future of book purchasing. This process is developing everyday.