Bay Area Dopers: best place to sell 500 paperbacks?

In My Humble Opinion
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Hi all. I am doing my 2-3 year book purge. I buy primarily used paperbacks and I have a metric fuckload this time, not sure why. I usually donate my purged books to the library, but we are broke and even a hundred fifty bucks would be helpful. These are regular old mass market paperbacks, primarily crime fiction/thrillers but with a healthy sprinkling of novels as well. All in reasonable shape, no cracked spines/missing covers/pages falling out. I bought them at 1.00-4.00 a pop.

What I don’t really want to have happen is for someone to pick out the 50-100 or so they want and hand me back the rest. I would love it if I could just hand them over and be done with it.

Any suggestions for places that handle paperbacks in bulk, folks? I would prefer East Bay but I can drive to the city if need be. Thanks.

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There’s a Half Price Books in Berkeley, right by Shattuck & University (2036 Shattuck). It’s a pretty sizeable place so they might take a big slug of books all at once. 510-526-6080, give them a call.

I really like Pegasus and Black Oak (also both in Berkeley) but I don’t know if they’d take that many books at one go.

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You might also try Moe’s also in Berkeley on Telegraph.

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Thanks guys.

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Also try Recycled Books in San Jose. It is pretty large. I suspect you might have to go to a couple of places.

Know Knew Books in Palo Alto is pretty good also, though not as big. There is a Half Priced Books in Fremont also (880 off of Auto Mall.)

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Moe’s. Call them. They buy whole libraries.