I regularly buy books online. It’s much cheaper and often easier than buying books in stores. The best site for buying books online in South Africa is Loot.co.za. Definitely better than Kalahari.net.
I still browse book stores all the time. This is my process:
- Find interesting books in a store. Take a photo with my phone to remind myself later
- Look up all interesting books on Amazon to read reviews
- If I want a book add it to a wishlist on Loot.co.za
- When I have a few books on the wishlist I put through an an order
This process helps to ensure that I get great books. Using Loot ensures that I get EXCELLENT prices. I highly recommend these guys – they run an excellent operation.
Price
Until recently I would always shop around the find the cheapest prices before buying books. I soon realised that was a waste of time – Loot is always the cheapest. Every single time.
Take my latest book order. I saved R116 (about 20%) by ordering through Loot.co.za!
| Item | Kalahari | Loot |
| Out of Africa (Karen Blixen) |
R173 | R113 |
| A History of South Africa (Leonard Thompson) |
R153 | R140 |
| The pig that wants to be eaten (Julian Baggini) |
R105 | R93 |
| Tales of the Unexpected (Roald Dahl) |
R105 | R93 |
| Overnight delivery* | Free | R8 |
| TOTAL | R563 | R447 |
Delivery
Loot has several delivery options and they stack up well against Kalahari. On my last order overnight delivery to me costed R8! Post office delivery is normally free.
I’ve had no problems with deliveries from Loot.co.za
Disclosure
I highly recommend using Loot.co.za. In the process of writing this blog post I found that I can get vouchers for referring Loot. I thought it only reasonable to disclose that if you click the Loot.co.za links in this post (and make an order) then I’ll get a R8 voucher… Trust me, that’s not why I wrote the post.