Paring down my books...
Mar. 5th, 2017 11:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
For a long time, Galina has been of the opinion that, were it not for all my books (which generally reside inoffensively on shelves), we would be able to lead simpler, more joyful lives. (Of course, that's my interpretation of her opinion. Mileages may vary.)
In any event, I've finally bitten the bullet and begun to haul boxes of books—many acquired via tsundoku (letting them pile up, unread)—off to the local Half-Price Books. My "haul" of cash so far is a hair over fifty bucks, which is actually a bit more than I expected for eight "book sized" boxes of books.
The store has an interesting algorithm for buying books. They examine each book and either reject it or place it in one of several "accept" piles, sometimes after consulting some online source. At the end of the process, you're offered a price for the books they're interested in buying, and you're free to take back any of the books they've rejected or you can let the store donate them to one of several good causes posted prominently near the counter.
I've already determined that, despite a rather sizeable foreign language section in the main part of the store, they're not interested in any of my Russian books, so I'm seriously thinking of offering them (especially my dictionaries) for sale through my work blog. It'd be a shame to have them end up in a dumpster, somewhere.
Cheers...
In any event, I've finally bitten the bullet and begun to haul boxes of books—many acquired via tsundoku (letting them pile up, unread)—off to the local Half-Price Books. My "haul" of cash so far is a hair over fifty bucks, which is actually a bit more than I expected for eight "book sized" boxes of books.
The store has an interesting algorithm for buying books. They examine each book and either reject it or place it in one of several "accept" piles, sometimes after consulting some online source. At the end of the process, you're offered a price for the books they're interested in buying, and you're free to take back any of the books they've rejected or you can let the store donate them to one of several good causes posted prominently near the counter.
I've already determined that, despite a rather sizeable foreign language section in the main part of the store, they're not interested in any of my Russian books, so I'm seriously thinking of offering them (especially my dictionaries) for sale through my work blog. It'd be a shame to have them end up in a dumpster, somewhere.
Cheers...
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Date: 2017-03-06 02:05 am (UTC)That's an impressive haul of books! $50!!! Yeah. So much is on line anymore. Physical dictionary use is waning.