My local thrift store! I usually find at least one good book 50% of the time, and sometimes I’ll find 3 or 4 that are on my to read list. They’re never about $3-$4 each too, which is great.
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I read primarily ebooks that I download to my kobo ereader. Eink ereaders are so nice and made me read a lot more.
I listen to a lot of audiobooks in my car, which got me back into the reading-for-pleasure habit after a dry spell during and after grad school. I have a subscription to libro.fm, the source of most of my audiobooks.
When not in my car I borrow a lot of ebooks from libby, or hoopla if the book’s not on libby. I also sometimes borrow audiobooks. I haven’t borrowed a physical book from the library since COVID.
Less often, I buy books from Powells, but my physical book collection is so big, I usually only buy older books that aren’t available from other sources.
I have a wealth of sources for book recommendations to find new books. Powells, who have staff recommendations every month, New York Times, librarything, a gazillion places on the web…