This is great – I have a slew of books on addiction and recovery that I’m never going to read again, so they can definitely go there. I may have some other stuff for them as well. Thanks for the tip!
They’re in there to be punished. Send them books about backpacking, rafting, national parks and exploration.
I have to admit, I’m hearing When She Loved Me, from Toy Story 2, as I’m reading this.
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oh, i don’t know how i forgot 'till just now. bookcorner behind the main branch library takes books. just give them a call and tell them the genres.
i send them a few boxes a year. mostly books that i can’t send out through operation paperback. they have a tough time hanging onto the smut books that green bean mentioned above. they do go quickly at 25 cents per, 5 for a dollar.
I realize I should add something to this–it’s not that ALL cookbooks, etc., sell well at used bookstores. But the ones that will are definitely in demand. We had a very experienced and very selective book buyer, and it was always interesting to see what he would buy.
Update:
I had 11 boxes of books (not very big boxes, and not packed to the brim – suckers are heavy!) in the first winnowing.
First stop: Used bookstore that offers cash or credit (Philly folks: The Book Haven, up on Fairmount). He took somewhere between a third and a half of them and gave me $65 cash – it’s not a neighborhood I visit regularly, so I decided against credit although that would have been over $100. Well, that, and I’m trying to get rid of the excess of crap in my life.
When the first guy repacked the boxes, he packed them fuller, and there were six boxes left (thus my unclearness of how many he wanted). We took those over to the other book store, which offers credit only (Philly folks: The Book Trader, on 2nd Street). He just called – $165 in credit from my favorite used book store.
Leftover: One and a half boxes, a few water damaged or written in (my bad, I thought I had caught the unsellable one) or just not interesting. The second guy will discard these appropriately (recycle or donate to charity).
Also, turns out the Book Trader takes VHS tapes, so I took those out of the “donate” pile I’m building – and, frankly, I’m going to take another look at the books in that pile, which had been from a winnowing I did a couple of years ago when I cleared the shelves but never actually did anything with the books. Some of those may definitely be of interest to one or the other of these guys – there will be another one of these two-stop trips next week, though probably with fewer boxes.
I also have one box of books on recovery and spirituality set aside for that books for prisoners program. **rocking chair **-- heard back from Magee, they’re not accepting books right now, so I’m guessing the miscellaneous unsellable will go to the Salvation Army up in Roxborough.
Woo hoo – $200 in cash and credit! I’m feeling flush!
Dang! Good job, woman!