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Old paperbacks? What do you do with them?
- Thread starter Lefferts
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I just realized one day that I wasn't reading fiction anymore. So I passed them on to people that might use them.
JoeGKushner
Adventurer
1. Give them to friends.
2. Trade them in for store credit (it's like $1.00 but better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.)
2. Trade them in for store credit (it's like $1.00 but better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.)
Thornir Alekeg
Albatross!
Some of them become part of my collection. Others, ones that I did not absolutely love, get packed up and sent to the town library for their annual fundraising book sale. Thanks for the reminder, I need to get them together in the next couple of weeks to make this year's sale.
HellHound
ENnies winner and NOT Scrappy Doo
We sell them at the used bookstores in the city.
Well, first we start with small town bookstores, who pay a lot better than the city ones. What they won't take, we bring to the bookstore in the city who pays in nickles and dimes. What THEY won't take either has to go in the recycling or the campfire.
(The only books they don't take are those with cracked or broken spines or other major problems that make them unsuitable for handing off as donations to anything but a local pagan deity of fires)
Well, first we start with small town bookstores, who pay a lot better than the city ones. What they won't take, we bring to the bookstore in the city who pays in nickles and dimes. What THEY won't take either has to go in the recycling or the campfire.
(The only books they don't take are those with cracked or broken spines or other major problems that make them unsuitable for handing off as donations to anything but a local pagan deity of fires)
MonsterMash
First Post
Mixture
Some I keep, after that it goes into a mixture of:
1. Sell on amazon or ebay
2. donate to library or charity shop
3. sell/trade in at second hand bookstore
I'm thinking about the bookcrossing thing at some point as it'd be interesting to see what happens to a book.
Some I keep, after that it goes into a mixture of:
1. Sell on amazon or ebay
2. donate to library or charity shop
3. sell/trade in at second hand bookstore
I'm thinking about the bookcrossing thing at some point as it'd be interesting to see what happens to a book.
Pbartender
First Post
I have a brother in the army. He's served in just about every bit of nastiness around the world in the last 15 years or so. The most common complaint I get from him on behalf of his troops, is that it often gets boring without the amenities of home, and the only easily portable entertainment, reading material, is hard to come by.
So, periodically, my wife and pack up a big box full of used paperbacks and magazines and mail them to my brother to pass around to his soldiers. We send our own, if we have them and are no longer reading them, otherwise, we go down to the local public library and take their old books and magazines... Sometimes we buy them from the library cheap, othertimes the library has donated them to us.
So, periodically, my wife and pack up a big box full of used paperbacks and magazines and mail them to my brother to pass around to his soldiers. We send our own, if we have them and are no longer reading them, otherwise, we go down to the local public library and take their old books and magazines... Sometimes we buy them from the library cheap, othertimes the library has donated them to us.
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