07-15-2014, 07:26 PM
I appreciate the suggestion, but when I have talked to the Kona bookstore on the island in the past, they only wanted beachy reads tourists buy or books that were Hawai'i related, only wanted Hawai'i or tropical gardening books, etc.. Also the money paid by used books stores is super low even for the ones they want.
I sold a bunch of books in Berkeley before I left, for example, and got enough store credit to turn that into 5 books. Store credit was at least 3 times more than the cash offer, maybe more, I forget, but the cash offer was not worth the effort of taking them down there, and that was a metropolitan bookstore serving a major university.
It costs me $60 to drive to Kona and six hours or so, to schlep books in and walk away with maybe $20 at best. That's the math.
I'd like to give the books to someone with scholarly interests in the humanities who would like to grow their book collection. Someone who is working on a project and might like to have the books at hand, or who wants to read some literature (not on a Kindle).
Does anyone here sell books on Amazon and know how much the shipping comes to for a paperback or a mid-sized hardback? I suppose I could do that, make a catalogue and start listing them, but it would be very time-consuming. It's not a rare book collection that would bring in lots of bucks. It's just books.
I sold a bunch of books in Berkeley before I left, for example, and got enough store credit to turn that into 5 books. Store credit was at least 3 times more than the cash offer, maybe more, I forget, but the cash offer was not worth the effort of taking them down there, and that was a metropolitan bookstore serving a major university.
It costs me $60 to drive to Kona and six hours or so, to schlep books in and walk away with maybe $20 at best. That's the math.
I'd like to give the books to someone with scholarly interests in the humanities who would like to grow their book collection. Someone who is working on a project and might like to have the books at hand, or who wants to read some literature (not on a Kindle).
Does anyone here sell books on Amazon and know how much the shipping comes to for a paperback or a mid-sized hardback? I suppose I could do that, make a catalogue and start listing them, but it would be very time-consuming. It's not a rare book collection that would bring in lots of bucks. It's just books.