A Reading Radish? That’s Right, It’s LOBAK!

Why Choose a Second-Hand Book? They’re Old and Yellow!

Are you a college student constantly pressured by your teacher to buy books? Or are you a parent with a child who needs a bulk of schoolbooks? Maybe, you’re even a hobbyist who dreamed of a walk-in library every night.

If you’re either one of them, or you’re a book lover, like me, you’ll know the situation in our country. In Indonesia, books are very expensive!

Yes, their price is equal to three servings of Nasi Padang (Padang rice) for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

According to Numbeo, in Indonesia, one individual’s expenditure for meals is only $2.5 per meal! Yep, you can get four portions of Nasi Padang for $10.

Between rent, electricity, water, and tuition fees, you’ll absolutely say bye-bye to buying books. “Well,” you think, “it’s okay if I don’t buy books, I’ll just download them online! They’re free!”

Nuh-uh. By doing that, you’re a pirate. Not the cool kind of pirate, but you’re a very uncool pirate who takes an author’s fortune without any effort but a click.

In fact, there are so many uncool pirates in Indonesia that it’s becoming a very serious problem.

You don’t want to be uncool, right? Yep, that’s why you buy a second-hand book. They might be old and yellow, but they aren’t illegal. Plus, they’re cheap!

Besides, if you’re a studious college student or a collector extraordinaire, you can sell your books (which you don’t use anymore) to people who want to buy them. Then, you get to be the hero of this pirate story.

So, Where Should I Buy Them?

You probably know that most second-hand bookstores in Indonesia are physical stores and you have to go there with your vehicle and pay for its fuel.

When you try searching it online, you’ll mostly find Facebook groups and Instagram stores with no set of guidance whatsoever and ended up frustrated with the lack of structure.

This is where LOBAK comes to help you.

LOBAK is a friendly radish that will help you buy or sell your books. We value honesty over anything and LOBAK strives to increase Indonesia’s plummeting reading interest and help those who need books for studying.

Why radish?

Thanks to our beautiful national language, a unique abbreviation is born.

Loak: second-hand, old

Berkualitas: having quality

Loak + Berkualitas = LOBAK

Coincidentally, LOBAK is Indonesian for a radish. That way, you’ll easily remember LOBAK as this stylish, bespectacled radish.

Know more about LOBAK by watching this video!

What does LOBAK Offer to You?

As you already guessed, LOBAK is offering you a chance to get your favourite books without sacrificing your meal by buying second-hand books. LOBAK is a marketplace for you to sell or buy books on our website.

LOBAK wants to go beyond the mouth-to-mouth Facebook groups and Instagram stores to a full-fledged marketplace with a very conveniently designed website. You will find that LOBAK is structured and neat, with amazing features for you.

With LOBAK, you can buy or sell;

LOBAK will be working directly with you, so, either you’re a seller or a buyer, you’ll be treated like family.

How?

We all know people’s opinion of second-hand books. People think they’re just worthless junk. At some point, even you think so, too.

That’s why many second-hand booksellers choose to lower down their prices too much to motivate people to buy, and they get scraps after years of care for those books.

LOBAK doesn’t want that. You deserve a fair price for preserving those books. That’s why LOBAK wants to treat you fairly with our guidelines:

Hence, sellers can get the price they deserve, fair and square. What if you want to buy? With those guidelines, LOBAK guarantees you get what you pay. If you don’t mind a little wrinkle here and there then you can pay lower.

We’re aware that shipping fees can be a problem. No worries, you can filter the books based on your location. Therefore, you’ll only need a regional courier to deliver your book.

Oh, did I mention that LOBAK is stylish? Yes, LOBAK likes to stay updated and LOBAK wants to prove to you that a website for second-hand books can be cool, too!

We have;

• Review pages
• Book blog
• Discussion page
• Bookshelf
• Fun quizzes

It’ll be like a space for all of book lovers to mingle and create communities.

There you have it. You get a complete package of cheap price, quality, and fun! LOBAK will welcome you with open arms and in return, you can be one of our heroes and beat the pirates!

Reference List (Blog):

Numbeo n.d, Cost of Living in Indonesia, Numbeo, retrieved 5 August 2021.

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