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MDGeist said:
think ill start buying artbooks when i ... earn my own money! :)
Just be careful of bootleggers. Since there are boot legged artbooks/illustration books. If you're not sure you should ask some of your online friends who do have lots of artbooks to confirm if they're fake or not.

*admin2 has a bunch, ask him ^^

Examples of Fake artbooks.

Fake - Mikeou artbook - http://cgi.ebay.com/Magic-Girl-Miraroma-Love-You-by-Mikeou-Art-Works-Book_W0QQitemZ140181843326QQihZ004QQcategoryZ1345QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1638Q2em118Q2el1247

The ISBN # 978-75318-7 for this "Supposeably" real book I cannot even find. If you did a google search on it, you get this
http://cgi.ebay.com.hk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130212957946&indexURL=
Which is Pop's 2nd Illustration book with the same ISBN, which I have not seen 2 items have the same ISBN so far.

This is the real Super Lolipop artbook from amazon.jp -http://www.amazon.co.jp/SUPER-LOLLIPOP-POP/dp/4861990963/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210644781&sr=1-3
# ISBN-10: 4861990963
# ISBN-13: 978-4861990960 (New ISBN adopted Jan 1, 2007 for all books, Since i just got Hiro's new Chronicles Illustration book, and it also has 13 digits)

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This is Mikeou's new artbook called "Kira Kira Reki" from amazon.jp - http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%81%8D%E3%82%89%E3%81%8D%E3%82%89%E6%9A%A6-%E3%81%BF%E3%81%91%E3%81%8A%E3%81%86%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9-%E3%81%BF%E3%81%91%E3%81%8A%E3%81%86/dp/4758010870/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210644649&sr=1-1

# ISBN-10: 4758010870
# ISBN-13: 978-4758010870

Real - Actually I don't even know which artbook they're even trying to reproduce since I don't even know that cover. Mikeou has 3 artbooks total, 2 doujins and 1 retail. I don't own any of her doujin books or even her retail >.<
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Doujin artbooks has no ISBN
(click the left button for toranoana)

Chronicle - Mikeou Art Works 2000-2005 - http://www.toranoana.jp/mailorder/article/04/0010/10/43/040010104366.html

Chronicle 2 - Mikeou Art Works 1999-2007 - This book is rather hard to find, so all I can give ya is the book cover page. (thank bunnygirls from HF for the image) - http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs119&d=07382&f=2CHRONICLE1.JPG

ps: Sorry for the long winded explanations, but I just don't want you to get ripped off. Since those bootlegger pisses me off. (yeah, I do have a few bad things from bootleggers)