Book depot (friends of the library) in your area?

[David]

Don't know how many have one, but a friends of the library Book Depot, is a jewel in my little community. Books are donated by the population, run by volunteers, and sold to the public and funds raised donated to local library. Mine has a store about the size of a 7/11, perhaps a tad bigger, with I guess 50,000 books at least, both paperbacks, and hardbacks. Hardbacks are sold for a dollar, paperbacks for 50c, and when over capacity, they will have sales for half off, depending on what is in overcapacity......books of the last three years are sold for a higher price, often 3 to 8 bucks. When read, I just donate them back for resell, better than the buying them for full price, and better than checking them out at the library for 2-3 weeks......I have about 200 on my shelf to read, and when ever I return the read ones, usually once a month, I add more to my shelf, so it stays about the same. New titles are constantly coming and going.

Better than one of those used book stores where once gets half for turning one in, and then pays half for the replacement, or whatever the deal is.

Anyway, anyone have one of these in your community?

[Feliks, Moderator]

One of the groups I moderate on this site is for the local reading scene in my quadrant of the city. There's lists of local book depositories and drop-offs and suchlike. Resource lists. Approx 100 members,

But I have to confess it is totally dead. Devoid of life. Everyone is watching cable tv, seriously. Its a wasteland. Petrified forest. Stalagmites. Tundra. To see a person holding an actual book in public anymore is an uncommon sight.

[David]

Feliks wrote: "One of the groups I moderate on this site is for the local reading scene in my quadrant of the city. There's lists of local book depositories and drop-offs and suchlike. Resource lists. Approx 100 ..."

Yea, most have a phone attached to their fingers. My local book depot is quite busy, however, I suspect 90% of regulars, as it is Florida, are on SS. Local library also quite busy. Did notice on my last Doc visit that two people in the waiting room were reading from Kindles, so not all is lost in the vast petrified wasteland.

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I have a small local book shop around the corner from me. I walk past it everyday on my way to the office. I buy all my books there (sometimes on Amazon). At lunch I sit in a public atrium (watching). The number of readers turning real pages is slowly gaining from the electronic zombie gadget game players. I mentioned this to the bookshop folks who pleasingly informed me that paper bound books sales have increased almost 10% this year.

[Feliks, Moderator]

that's good to hear. i hope the newspaper industry is listening.

[Doubledf99.99]

I sure miss a good newspaper, anyone remember the National Observer, one of my favorites.