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RE: What to do with used books? - csgray - 07-16-2014
The Pahoa used bookstore is a sweet little bookstore.
Carol
RE: What to do with used books? - Anxious Messiah - 07-16-2014
Put them on CL as posted above, even for all islands. Media rates for USPS are manini. I have sent and ordered books for many years through the USPS.
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RE: What to do with used books? - Guest - 07-16-2014
How about the used book and dvd place in Hilo near Toyota ?
RE: What to do with used books? - Tink - 07-16-2014
Vets Hall and Senior Centers, Senior assisted living homes? Some can't get out, and are bored silly. Brighten their day with a good book.
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RE: What to do with used books? - missydog1 - 07-16-2014
I surely appreciate that so many of you took time to offer ideas. Whether or not they all work for me, I figure others of you have books to move along too, and this topic is not only for me.
Replies in no special order:
I have tried book shops on island, though I should go by Hilo Bay Books. Book shops generally don't want academics' books, because they don't sell very fast and book stores need to stay in business.
I've done enough for one lifetime of carrying heavy books down the block and waiting to have them looked at, then gone through and one in 5 they want, and offer a buck a book or less. It's not worth it. I'd rather put them in the donation station for a thrift store and be done with it.
I was hoping not to need to catalogue 500 books for an ad ... I will likely sell the better books that I have through Amazon, but I don't have any points as a trusted seller on either Amazon or Ebay, as I've never sold anything.
Craigslist -- I'm not letting anyone come to my house, so that means I have to meet someone in town to sell one or just a few books, not worth it.
Donate to seniors -- Have already donated to Hilo Veteran's Home the books that looked halfway useful. Our DAR chapter does that every Thanksgiving along with other gifts. But most of these are not suited, and have small print, and are difficult reads.
I guess I didn't stress enough that these are not "good read" type books. Unless you think all the casebooks of Freud and the most difficult classics of the English language are a good read -- or maybe some Hegel or Vico or other philosophy. It's good reading IF you're a graduate student in English interested in psychology, folklore, Greek and Roman classics, Romantic poets, Shakespeare, Joyce, Milton, Chaucer, Woolf, modernism, Victorian literature, literary criticism, books on teaching composition, etc.. In fact it would represent a big savings on getting the library you would need if that's your thing.
It doesn't sound like that ideal person is here. I was just checking. [
]I also have a bunch of legal books from my paralegal studies days, but some are California law. And none would be current textbooks, I'm sure.
Recycle -- do you mean recycle for the paper? Acck, no, these books are my friends, I would never. In fact, when I look them over, in each one I see a reason why I should be reading it.
A lot of them were course required when I bought them, but that is so edition specific, they wouldn't work to sell back as textbooks now. I have sold a lot of textbooks back over the years (when I was in Berkeley), and the money is quite good, as Carey knows, if the book and edition is on order for the coming semester. Do it while they're hot, as after time they're not. [
]USPS shipping is not manini for hardbacks. They're weighty beasts, these books.
Based on these responses, I'll probably cull out the ones worth selling individually (over $5), and I'll donate the rest -- but only to a charity that will take ALL the books. I'm not doing the thing of taking them around for pick and choose, I have done that enough already and sworn off it. Too much rejection. [
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RE: What to do with used books? - msrocket - 07-16-2014
Seems like these would be good books for the library at UH.
RE: What to do with used books? - missydog1 - 07-16-2014
Do they take paperbacks in a range of conditions?
The Hilo library didn't want PB when I looked. UH would be ideal if it's not all picky.
RE: What to do with used books? - Lin W - 07-16-2014
HPP has a library for park residents, down at the activity center. They used to take donations, paperbacks included. You could check with the office and see what their policy is now.
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RE: What to do with used books? - fishnchamp1 - 07-16-2014
If all else fails... Compost?
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RE: What to do with used books? - missydog1 - 07-17-2014
quote:Seriously?
Originally posted by fishnchamp1
If all else fails... Compost?
What part of I love these books like old friends did not get through? I'm trying to rehome them to someone who has scholarly interests, not turn them into compost.