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We know that in big touristic cities (or smaller towns) postcards can get quite expensive, or even hard to find… sometimes all there is left in the local paper shop is a stack of yellowed cards in a corner box.

Fortunately for us, Amazon.com has a great selection of postcard books which will cover your every need! They’re also surprisingly cheap yet very good quality, so we decided that a little roundup was in order. Here are 20 of our favorite postcard sets:

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What a bargain! :) Happy shopping!

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41 comments so far

RuskiG, United States of America
i highly recommend the Waldo book...the Onion set and Charlie Harper
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RuskiG, United States of America
the Vanity set is not out until October :D
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Vagabond_Trader, United States of America
You can also buy some great postcard books from

http://pomegranate.ecomm-search.com/search/Product_Type-Book_of_Postcards--keywords-postcards

I have bought a bunch from here.
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meiadeleite, Portugal
Ah, well spotted RuskiG! I'll add a note! :)
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FairyFoot, United Kingdom
A couple of years ago, discovered the Art of Pixar on the UK site... bought it, posted link on forum, and they went out of stock quite quickly. When it came back into stock, the price went up!
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FairyFoot, United Kingdom
(good grief, just looked at price now!!! I think I only paid £5)
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meiadeleite, Portugal
@FairyFoot: indeed! we have that Pixar set and it's lovely... but the price has gone crazy expensive, so I took it off the post.
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Jenzeestyle, United States of America
I have the Animal book and wanderlust ones, I recommend them =)
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ladybug513, United States of America
I've also ordered from pomegranate.com. 100 postcards sight unseen for $15.00 plus shipping. Still inexpensive per postcard and a lot of them have been Favourites!
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phuleshouse, Canada
I order from chapters.indigo because they are faster in delivery than amazon and some of these sets are available there too!
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enya78, Philippines
Postcard heaven! =)
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KaLiBbW, Canada
I ordered Waldo's postcard! I recommend them ! Pretty nice, hard paper, 3 things to search in every postcard, yeah, it's a great purchase ! :D
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RuskiG, United States of America
no problem i practically live on amazon :D
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SilentSilence, Spain
OOOOOh! I LOVE those postcards. I think it would be such a perfect birthday present :D
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lucymonty, United Kingdom
Shame they aren't all available on Amazon UK... I've bought several postcard books/boxes from there :-D
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raincity, Canada
I have the Hi set, it has a lot of great quirky art :)
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ecprmb, Portugal
Thanks! ;)
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JennyYandow, United States of America
Half Priced Books sells post card books as well! (= That's where I got my Suicide Bunnies cards! (=
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JennyYandow, United States of America
Half Priced Books sells post card books really cheap! Usually $4.00 for 20-30 cards! I found a post card book full of views from space in the clearance section for $1.00!
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vliegbeestje, Netherlands
These are incredible, so cool!
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DanielleVi, Netherlands
I have the Wanderlust, Bunny Suicides and Cutest Cats cards. They are very cool! Charley Harper cards seem very nice also, just like the Happy Animal Time cards. Don't like the Pantone, Onion and Penguin bookcovers postcards.
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icspi, Netherlands
The Pantone collection is unbelievable!!!!!

I bought "Postcards from Puffin" at Dublin airport, that is the twin box for Postcards from Penguin... And it has only Children's book illustrations.
http://www.amazon.com/Postcards-Puffin-Books/dp/0141333375/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1316108246&sr=1-1

And I suggest this for those who enjoy people and fashion (?):
http://www.amazon.com/Fruits-Postcards-Shoichi-Aoki/dp/0714843350
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BOOGIE_PIPPIN, United Kingdom
I have bought several books of postcards from Amazon, the variety is excellent. Often adults like the childrens cards as they remind them of books they read when young.
Like Danielle I have the Cutest Cats cards, I love them and and am tempted to keep them but will be good and send them to Postcrossers! I'm sure they will love them too.
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gmur2much, United States of America
I buy many postcards from www.zazzle.com They have everything.
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Antosie, United States of America
Thanks for the post. I wish I knew about these. I'll check Amazon.
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kazinhabueno, Brazil
amazing! thank you!
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Kitty-Krea, France
"Where's Waldo" set seems to be great !
Thank you =)
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HM, Netherlands
two tips other then commercial amazon

http://www.petastore.de/buecher__medien#/postkarten
Germany, if you want to spent money for charity (vegetarians). My reason was not charity, but just to get a card from Nina Hagen. She has had so many different haircuts that I had espected to find a Taschenpostcardbook from here. But not.

http://www.eagarbros.com/shop/bang7_postcard_book.htm
Canada, happy cards from happy brothers printed on a bit thinner paper then usual - so you your travelling cards do not weight so much and need less kerosine then the ordinairy cards (towards a greener environment)

I bought too many postcardbooks everywhere I can find them, from Auschwitz to Cicciolina. Be serious and Have fun!
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nh1990, Germany
love the "i feel a sin coming on" one!
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Sunflare, United States of America
For those of you in the U.S., I get many of my postcards from http://postcardstop.com/ as well as Amazon. I have the Where's Waldo and The Cutest Cat in the World sets - great sets. Found a Mutts set a year back on Amazon too.
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Saffron55, Canada
I've bought several postcard books, 2 that are in the ones you featured :)
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zoomster, Canada
Postcard Books are great...I have too many...LOL!! My husband says...are those all postcards and well now I have to stash them because like I said...I have too many!!! Anyways, another place to check out is www.bookdepository.com because the prices are good and they have free world wide shipping.
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Saintois, Belgium
woow.. thanks for the information.. now I want to have them all..
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Delenna, Finland
Yay! I found some of those in a Finnish bookstore! Check out adlibris.fi fellow Finns :)
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Delenna, Finland
And I wasn't supposed to buy any more cards... Well, "Ooops!" ;p
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isagv, Germany
I have the "where is Waldo" book. Very good quality!
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Muhv, Estonia
Thank you zoomster for the link ! I already made my first order of postcards and now its time to shop books also :D Thanks !
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ekasyr, Belarus
Thanks a lot for the post. It was very interesting to know about such postcard books. I am impressed.
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Infolass, Australia
What are on the Pantone ones though? Just swatches of colour?
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paperstreetpress, Philippines
yup, just colors. http://paperstreetpress.tumblr.com/post/10925952130/ohhhh-so-this-is-whats-inside-the-pantone-100

Would be perfect for the colour tag in the forum. :)
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