Events: Experiencing the 35th Manila International Book Fair

The Manila International Book Fair or MIBF, is going to be an annual go-to-event for me. This year, it was held once again at SM Mall of Asia's SMX Convention Center.

My free ticket came from Adarna House. So far it was only that publisher who had a printable free entrance for the event. Although the tickets are really cheap which even has a student and senior discount, it is still worth printing. Mostly it will save you time from falling in line just to buy the entrance ticket.

There are a lot of interesting things that I found in MIBF 2014. One of those is PSICOM selling DC comics for 20% off on their booth.

In Rex Publishing House, they had set up their booth to hold a mini book museum. In here one can see the smallest book in the world. It was said to have been purchased at the Gutenberg Museum, Mainz, Germany in October 2012. The title of the book is "The Lord's Prayer". Nearby is the smallest diary and the smallest calendar. They were purchased in Frankfurt, Germany in February 2012 with the calendar dated for the year 1914.

A new addition to the booths this year is Komikon. This is another nice move from these guys who continue to promote our own local comics and share this love for comics to others.

The book that I was really surprised to see was the legendary Soul Book from Bookmark, Inc.'s booth. It was really pure luck as I happen to catch a tweet from Paolo Chikiamco (@anitero), one of the creators of Mythspace comics and editor for Studio Salimbal and Rocket Kapre.

It has been a good time because after I had bought a copy there were only 2 copies left. Later, after a few minutes of browsing the MIBF, the remaining copies of Soul Book was already gone. That book is really hard to find. Hope you guys also got yours.

These are the other stuffs that I had enjoyed seeing during the last day of MIBF 2014.

Tons of copies of the Deluxe Edition of Vol 1 of Y: The Last Man in Hardcover at the FullyBooked booth

 Nice covers of some classic books at the National Book Store booth

A rare complete collection of Marvel Zombies in Hardcover at the National Book Store booth

The Metro Serye mostly illustrated by Manix Abrera at the UST Publishing booth

It was really a nice day for MIBF. It got me so many good bargain books. Don't forget that super rare book. MIBF should be on the must-go-to-event for a book lover. Especially those in search of rare and old books.

Here are the things that I got from the 35th Manila International Book Fair

• Metro Serye No. 2
• University of Santo Tomas Publishing House
• Noli Me Tangere
• Bookmark, Inc.
• Williams Manual of Obstetrics: Pregnancy Complications
• C&E Publishing, Inc.
• The Soul Book Volume 1
• Bookmark, Inc.
• Harrison's Manual of Medicine, 18th ed.
• C&E Publishing, Inc.
• The Best of Pugad Baboy #1
• New Day Publishers
• Metro Serye No. 3
• University of Santo Tomas Publishing House
• Lourd De Veyra's Little Book of Speeches
• Summit Media
• Basic Radiology, 2nd ed.
• C&E Publishing, Inc.
• Williams Obstetrics, 24th ed.
• C&E Publishing, Inc.
• The Revenge of Seven
• National Book Store
• The Magic Circle
• Anvil Publishing
• The Tales of Beedle The Bard
• National Book Store
• Doctor To The Barriors
• New Day Publishers
• Metro Serye No. 4
• University of Santo Tomas Publishing House