# Interested in giving away/getting free books? Get in here! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 17, 2005, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interested-in-giving-away-getting-free-books-get-in-here/290565 "2005-02-17T16:56:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interested-in-giving-away-getting-free-books-get-in-here/290565/81 "2005-02-20T16:12:38Z")
> [@Scuba\_Ben](#): > > And, as noted earlier, _The Elenium_ trilogy, David Eddings, paperback, good condition. An intricate fantasy series, with warfare, avatars of Deities, and the inevitable fair maiden in distress. Oooo! Not to sound pushy, but can I have this? It’s where I got my original handle, **Elenia**. I’ll e-mail you. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interested-in-giving-away-getting-free-books-get-in-here/290565/82 "2005-02-20T16:27:22Z")
_The Elenium_ is SOLD to the lady in the front row! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interested-in-giving-away-getting-free-books-get-in-here/290565/83 "2005-02-20T16:28:59Z")
> [@Scuba\_Ben](#): > > _The Elenium_ is SOLD to the lady in the front row! Thanks, **Suba\_Ben**! Got your e-mail! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interested-in-giving-away-getting-free-books-get-in-here/290565/84 "2005-02-20T16:30:02Z")
Um… **Scuba\_Ben.** Apologies. :o ---
**Author:** ![sj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@sj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sj2)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interested-in-giving-away-getting-free-books-get-in-here/290565/85 "2005-02-20T18:12:26Z")
> [@JerH](#): > > Also - I’ll send only to the USA. Sorry, non-USAians. > > FYI - I send a lot of books & stuff via USPS Media Mail (aka Book Rate). That runs $1.42 for the first pound, and $1.84 (I think) for up to 2 pounds, so there should be no reason to spend more than a couple bucks to send something within the USA. [http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03234/213790.stm](http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03234/213790.stm) This link is for a little article/narrative about sending books. Media Mail is the way to go, but you usually have to tell/ask them, write Media on it - You may just want to wrap the book in heavy paper…One thing I did not know comes from the article above: “But don’t place a note, letter or any other material in the package or you won’t be eligible for the media rate. Yes, that means you’re on the honor system. Honor it.” But the USPS does let you tack on a message… "1.3Enclosures in Books Enclosures in books mailed at Media Mail rates are subject to these additional standards: a. Either one envelope or one addressed postcard may be bound into the pages of a book. If also serving as an order form, the envelope or card may be in addition to the order form permitted by" Me moms worked at the Post as her hobby. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interested-in-giving-away-getting-free-books-get-in-here/290565/86 "2005-02-20T21:04:14Z")
I’m digging around for more–who wants: Peter Brown & Stephen Gaines: **The Love You Make: An Insider’s Story of the Beatles** - paperback first edition, spine is extremely sun-faded. John Brunner: **The Jagged Orbit** - excellent sci-fi novel, hardback w/DJ, probably book club edition Humphrey Carpenter: **Tolkien: The Authorized Biography** - paperback, 4th printing Derek Taylor: **It Was Twenty Years Ago Today** “An Anniversary Celebration of 1967” - trade paperback Gene Wolfe: **Lake of the Long Sun** (“The second volume of The Book of the Long Sun”) - paperback ---
**Author:** ![furthur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@furthur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furthur)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interested-in-giving-away-getting-free-books-get-in-here/290565/87 "2005-02-20T22:31:27Z")
**GorillaGirl** , you can have my 84 Charing Cross Road, no problem. E-mail me at [kelebrian@hotmail.com](mailto:kelebrian@hotmail.com) to give me your postal address. Does anyone have available Alexandra Stoddard’s Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight ? I’m very keen to read it but my local library and used bookstore don’t have it. Mrs. Furthur ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interested-in-giving-away-getting-free-books-get-in-here/290565/88 "2005-02-20T22:33:50Z")
If anyone else out there wants _The Tamuli_, I have all three books in slightly ragged paperback. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8491ac/32.png) [@GorillaGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaGirl)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interested-in-giving-away-getting-free-books-get-in-here/290565/89 "2005-02-20T22:43:47Z")
Thanks, **further**! Email sent. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interested-in-giving-away-getting-free-books-get-in-here/290565/90 "2005-02-20T22:49:13Z")
> [@Scuba\_Ben](#): > > _The Odessa File_, Frederick Forsyth, paperback, good condition. A brotherhood of Nazi criminals. CAVEAT LECTOR: Includes a first-person account of the Holocost. > > _Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, The Restored Klingon Version_, William Shakespeare, Nick Nicholas, Andrew Strader, hardback, excellent condition. Autographed by Lawrence M. Schoen. No hard-core KLI Trekkie should be without it! > > _Retief at Large_, Keith Laumer, paperback, good condition. An anthology of comic science fiction short stories. Can I have these? The first and third sound interesting and, uh, well… I just can’t pass up the second for free even though I’d never buy it myself. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interested-in-giving-away-getting-free-books-get-in-here/290565/91 "2005-02-21T00:39:33Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > Can I have these? The first and third sound interesting and, uh, well… I just can’t pass up the second for free even though I’d never buy it myself. Just to confirm on the board: _Hamlet_ is already spoken for. Several people have asked for it, actually. FWIW, I didn’t buy it, either; someone else gave it to me. **Aesiron** gets _The Odessa File_ and _Retief At Large_. ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interested-in-giving-away-getting-free-books-get-in-here/290565/92 "2005-02-21T00:44:46Z")
Oh, what the hell: I have a copy of [A Return to Cooking](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1579651879/qid=1108947396/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-2390219-3561729) that I wouldn’t mind getting rid of. It’s in good shape, just a little too food-porn oriented for me; plus it’s big and unwieldy. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interested-in-giving-away-getting-free-books-get-in-here/290565/93 "2005-02-21T03:01:58Z")
> [@](#): > > Peter Brown & Stephen Gaines: The Love You Make: An Insider’s Story of the Beatles - paperback first edition, spine is extremely sun-faded. I’ve been looking for a copy of this one. If it’s still unspoken for, I’d like it. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interested-in-giving-away-getting-free-books-get-in-here/290565/94 "2005-02-21T03:26:06Z")
**Little Nemo** gets the Brown Beatles bio. (Thanks, I got your e-mail.) On the plus side, I found two more books in the Gene Wolfe series: Gene Wolfe: **Nightside the Long Sun** (“The first volume of The Book of the Long Sun”) - paperback Gene Wolfe: **Caldé of the Long Sun** (“The third volume of The Book of the Long Sun”) - paperback …so I have the first three books of the series available. ---
**Author:** ![JerH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@JerH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerH)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interested-in-giving-away-getting-free-books-get-in-here/290565/95 "2005-02-21T14:15:44Z")
**Naz** , _The Funnies_ is yours. Email me with your address. A couple other books, free to a good home (all paperback): _Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask_, by Jim Munroe _Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets_, by J.K. Something-or-other _N-Space_, by Larry Niven _Essays of E.B. White One More For The Road_, by Ray Bradbury and a couple hardcovers: _The New New Thing_, by Michael Lewis _Foundation and Earth_, by Isaac Asimov _A Treasury of Sherlock Holmes_ by Arthur Conan Doyle ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interested-in-giving-away-getting-free-books-get-in-here/290565/96 "2005-02-21T15:15:51Z")
**JerH** , I’ll take that Bradbury. You’ve already got my address. Thanks for letting me pick over your bookshelves! ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interested-in-giving-away-getting-free-books-get-in-here/290565/97 "2005-02-21T16:06:35Z")
> [@Hunter Hawk](#): > > Oh, what the hell: I have a copy of [A Return to Cooking](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1579651879/qid=1108947396/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-2390219-3561729) that I wouldn’t mind getting rid of. It’s in good shape, just a little too food-porn oriented for me; plus it’s big and unwieldy. I’ll take this one. If it costs too much to send, I’ll gladly pay for shipping. ---
**Author:** ![Nahk\_Ila\_Dihahs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/858c86/32.png) [@Nahk\_Ila\_Dihahs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nahk_Ila_Dihahs)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interested-in-giving-away-getting-free-books-get-in-here/290565/98 "2005-02-21T17:33:26Z")
_Waves to the people with the David Eddings books_ ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interested-in-giving-away-getting-free-books-get-in-here/290565/99 "2005-02-21T17:55:47Z")
> [@Nahk Ila Dihahs](#): > > _Waves to the people with the David Eddings books_ _waves back_ I’ve got the entire Belgariad, Mallorean, as well as The Redemption of Althalus, and Belgariad the Sorceror. And soon I shall have the Elenium! **Thanks to Scuba\_Ben**! ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2005, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interested-in-giving-away-getting-free-books-get-in-here/290565/100 "2005-02-21T18:03:08Z")
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#): > > Humphrey Carpenter: **Tolkien: The Authorized Biography** This one is now spoken for. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interested-in-giving-away-getting-free-books-get-in-here/290565.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interested-in-giving-away-getting-free-books-get-in-here/290565.md?page=6)