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We save you time and money by searching <a href="https://www.bookfinder.com/about/booksellers/">every major catalog online</a>, and letting you know which booksellers are offering the best prices and selection. When you find a book you like, you can buy it directly from the original seller; we never charge a markup.</p> <p>The BookFinder.com website is part of the BookFinder.com/JustBooks network, produced by a team of high-tech librarians and programmers based in Berkeley, California, and Düsseldorf, Germany. We are heavy readers, and buy several dozen books every year using our own search engine. We enjoy advocating for a strong, diverse, bookselling industry.</p> <p>BookFinder.com was launched in 1997 by then-19-year-old UC Berkeley undergraduate <a href="http://www.chatterjee.net/">Anirvan Chatterjee</a> (personal website). Over the years, both <a href="https://www.bookfinder.com/about/comments/">users</a> and <a href="https://www.bookfinder.com/about/mentions/">the press</a> have discovered why we are one of the most useful resources for bibliophiles online. Whether you collect rare books or buy cheap paperbacks to read on the train, we think you will appreciate our breadth, precision, and unbiased results.</p> <table id="about-body-boxes"> <tr> <td><p>Our searchable inventory</p> <ul> <li>150+ million books for sale</li> <li>new, used, rare, out-of-print, textbooks</li> <li>books from booksellers in 50+ countries</li> <li>books written in English, French, German, Italian, and Dutch</li> </ul> </td> <td><p>Our global network of book search engines</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.bookfinder.com/">BookFinder.com</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="http://www.justbooks.de/">JustBooks.de</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="http://www.justbooks.co.uk/">JustBooks.co.uk</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="http://www.justbooks.fr/">JustBooks.fr</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="http://www.justbooks.nl/">JustBooks.nl</a> (2007)</li> </ul> </td> </tr> </table> <p><em>BookFinder.com is an independent subsidiary of <a href="http://www.abebooks.com/">AbeBooks</a>, which is 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