£2 book challenge

[kevinj]

I get bored, a lot so what I do just to alleviate boredom is set myself a litle challenge as follows.
Pick a series or author (currently doing The History of Middle Earth & Honor Harrington)
Make a list of every book in it.
Find a copy of each book.
And here's the challenge
Pay no more than £2 for each book.
This means no buying it in a bookshop or Amazon etc, and cannot get it from a friend.
You can buy it from a second hand store or charity store, ebay also if it costs under £2.
You can pay nothing for it if it is via a bookshop or charity or legal ebook from publisher for example baenfreelibrary or donation only box in charity store, or if you work in charity/secondhand store.
You can't borrow it from a library you have to own a personal copy.
Much more fun than browsing shelves in waterstones.

Yeah I know rrreeeeaaallllyyy need to get laid.

[hammard]

Awesome idea, I remember discussing it before.

I assume they have to be physical, not digital. Therefore, I'll use Zola's Rougon-Macquart series (as I only have them on my kindle).

List:
The Fortune of the Rougons
His Excellence, Eugene Rougon
The Kill
The Belly of Paris (AKA The Fat and the Thin)
The Conquest of Plassans
L'Assommoir (AKA The Drinking Den, The Gin Palace, The Dram Shop, The Drunkard)
A Love Episode
The Sin of Father Mouret (AKA The Transgressions of Father Mouret)
Pot Luck (AKA Piping Hot!)
The Masterpiece
The Ladies' Delight (AKA The Ladies' Paradise)
La Joie de Vivre (AKA The Joy of Living)
Germinal
Money
The Dream
The Earth (AKA The Soil)
La Bete Humaine (AKA The Beast Within)
The Debacle (AKA The Downfall)
Doctor Pascal

The added task for this is that around half of these have been out of print in English during my lifetime.

I may try to update these with any I find.

(None on Ebay, cheapest is Germinal for £2.64)
Bah came close but no cigar. Found 3 of them in a Charity shop but all were £2.50.

[kevinj]

They can be digital, the problem is that there are so many iffy websites offering free ebooks that you suspect are not quite legally allowed to that you have to get it either through a site like amazon or waterstones or direct from the publishers to count, and they still have to be under £2, which is difficult as there is no 2nd hand legal market for ebooks yet so very rarely do you find them for under this.

[hammard]

Got 1 off my list:

Germinal by Emile Zola for £0.01 + £1.80P&P. Via Ebay

Just another 19 to find!