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What to do with hundreds of SciFi & Fantasy books?
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Will
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Jul 26, 2011 11:27AM
I have a forest full of old SciFi and Fantasy paperback books going back 30 years. Hundreds of them! I am unsure what to do with them all. What have you done with your old book collection?
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Give them to the library, to friends/relatives, sell 'em to used book stores, build a house out of them.
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Bookshelves are made to be used. If you do not want to keep the books libraries or used bookstores are a good solution.
Mine are still in the attic. but like you I have been debating what to do. I have decided that any books my kids may enjoy in the next few years I will keep until they have finished, and then give these to the local school. The rest are going on ebay to find appreciative homes (hopefully). Look forward to other options on this as well.
Libraries and Half Price Book store...ebay...
Leave them randomly about town with a sticky that says "free to a good home"
Ala wrote: "Leave them randomly about town with a sticky that says "free to a good home""Under one of these guys:
And then Homeland Security will take care of the rest.
If libraries have booksales, they often accept donations during certain times of year. In my community, we have a literacy association that does a huge booksale, so I fill up a box throughout the year for them.You could sign up for BookCrossing and release them into the wild one by one... I keep saying I'm going to do that and then don't.
Great ideas. I like the idea by Ala to leave them randomly around for people. Unfortunately, most are book series so I would have to bundle them some way ;) Jenny's BookCrossing idea is interesting and different as well.
Keep up the good ideas!
I personally love searching through used book stores for diamonds in the rough; I especially love it when I find an old inscribed book from decades ago! I'd go that route, but I'm a bit of a pack rat when it comes to books.
go to www.bookcrossing.com and set up an account. You enter your books and leave them in a restaurant or or a hair dressers, whereever with a bookcrossing sticker and watch your book travel as you set it into the wild. Its a lot of fun to track your books as the people who find them also release them back into the wilds.
Brad wrote: "go to www.bookcrossing.com and set up an account. You enter your books and leave them in a restaurant or or a hair dressers, whereever with a bookcrossing sticker and watch your book travel as you..."At the very least, I plan on doing this with a couple of books!
My dad lives at used book stores. There's a local one called Dog Eared books. He used to use Rainy Day books all the time, too. He keeps the books he knows he'll want to read again, or those he thinks I'll enjoy, but the rest go to the used book store to be used as credit for titles that he hasn't read yet...which are eventually, in their turn, returned for credit, ad infinitum....
I keep all of mine in pristine condition so I always get decent store credit at the second hand bookstore.After 30+ years of collecting I realised that all those books I was never going to read again were just taking up space, a lot of space! Problem is, I have been selling off the space hogging hardbacks and using the credit to buy paperbacks. That averages at about a 1-3 ratio. Every hardback I get rid of gets replaced with between 2 to 5 paperbacks.
Andrew wrote: "I realised that all those books I was never going to read again were just taking up space, a lot of space!"I've been clearing out my paper library for about a year now, going all-digital, but during a recent move there was a box o' books I just...couldn't...get...rid...of. So I dumped them on my parents and told them they are cultivating a library.
I finally made the BookCrossing effort - half cookbooks, half fiction, including mass market versions of some fantasy books. Love the books, hate reading on cheap paper. I'm excited to see if anyone actually plugs the numbers in!
