BOOKS, BOOKS AND MORE BOOKS

I read somewhere that you can buy anything at Chatuchak Weekend Market. The same is apparently true of Harrods in London but they're a million miles apart in so many ways. Chatuchak is not just for tourists and I would say that locals outnumber foreigners by at least ten to one. Many Bangkokians shop for the latest fashions and home decorations.
My favourite area is the books section where you can buy just about anything and everything. It's also a good place for buying recent (but not the latest) copies of English magazines. These are the ones that are imported from the UK at great cost but remain unsold. They seem to find a home here, although I doubt many get sold.
To be honest the books aren't that cheap. Thais seem to think that even though a book is a few years old it should still be sold for a sizable proportion of its original price. Like anything here you can haggle but you'd still pay more in comparison to what you would pay for the same second-hand book from a car book sale in the UK.