Wanted! A few good readers! Help keep my home library from ending up in a dumper or pulped!!!!

[marble falls]

Last edited Sat May 22, 2021, 05:26 PM - Edit history (3)

I have a bunch of books available I will send to you and I will pay 'book rate' at the PO as a thankyou for helping me recycle.

These aren't anime or bodice rippers, so they'll just sit in a thrift shop and be pulped eventually.

1. Gone

2. Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell

3. Gone

4. Gone

5. Gone

6. Gone

7. Gone

Take one or take all. If this is succesful, I will put more up!

Thankyou!


Anyone who wants to repay the postage, I'd ask you to sent it to your state DNC. (usually around ($3.00)

[Hekate]

1. What a splendid idea, marble falls! KnR for visibility.

[snowybirdie]

2. Hate to tell you

but used books are hard to even give away. When we retired and got ready to relocate, I had hundreds of good, barely used books ready to give to anyone who would appreciate them. No takers. Except the local library who sold them at their book sale. So sad. So now I have a Kindle and keep my already read books in the cloud. Good luck.

[IcyPeas]

3. I also donate used books to my local library for their book sales.

[marble falls]

6. The Library Thrift Shop here in Marble Falls Sends books to the pulper if they sit more than ...

... a month, and they pulp a lot of books.

I donated a set of Harvard Classics to a Nursing home that got turned into a set of thirty Chrismas trees and then sent to the landfill after NYDay.

[Retrograde]

30. I sort donations for the local friends of the library

The pandemic hasn't slowed down the incoming rate! While we do get some books that sell - even for high prices - many of them go directly to the bargain room. There just isn't that much demand for beat-up paperbacks or the umpteenth copy of "Five People You Meet in Heaven" (I seem to get at least one Albom book every week) or high school social studies texts from the 1980s or manuals for obsolete computers or book club editions of best sellers from 1960. Or books covered in mold and mildew.

And when you decide to donate your books, flip through them to see if you've left anything you might want to keep. I've found lots of boarding passes, photos, birthday cards, money, condom packages, random envelopes, and once a sheet of paper containing someone's login and password. Luckily I'm an honest person - and the company was long defunct!

[marble falls]

4. I've offered books about specific things to DUers who had posted something earlier ...

Someone told me I wouldn't be able to give them away for free, but if I charged a buck, they'd fly.

I'm a gifting sort of a guy and I never was much of a shopkeeper.

[intheflow]

68. Why is it sad that the local library took them?

Librarian, here. We love donations of gently used books. In my library, that money exclusively goes towards programming, i.e., bringing in musicians for “free” community concerts, supplies for cooking and craft programs, and even more copies of certain titles for book clubs to use. It’s not at all sad that you had to bring your books to the library.

[snowybirdie]

69. I had to spebnd

several weeks a looking for a library to even take them. It was frustrating and time consuming at a time I had much to do. Just thinking that task should be much easier. I even had a librarian tell me they would have taken graphic novels if I'd had them! But not books.

[No Vested Interest]

5. Do you have any of those Little Librarys anywhere near your home?

They are fairly popular in my area, though I haven't used them.
Residents stock them with book no longer needed/wanted, and passers-by take what they like, etc.

I like your idea of sending to DUers, though.

[marble falls]

7. A great idea, but none around.

[panader0]

8. I'm very tempted by the Ellison books, but

truth be known, I have several other books to read first.
And I want to try and re=read some Shakespeare---it's been 50 years.....
Great idea and very generous.

[marble falls]

9. Let me send you the Ellison books. They're tough to find!

[Treefrog]

10. The "tutor age"?

What?

[marble falls]

11. The Tutors - Henry Vll, Henry Vlll, Edward lV, Mary and Elizebeth.

[Treefrog]

12. I guess you mean the Tudors.

Come on now.

[WhiteTara]

13. and they stole the Tudor castle from my family

the Tewders

[Treefrog]

14. Lol.

Still laughing at “tutors” and never mind “Elizebeth.” Why can’t people spell?

[marble falls]

15. I laugh at people laughing at other people.

[Treefrog]

16. TUDORS.

Really not hard.

[WhiteTara]

20. How funny. I misspelled my family's name

it's actually Tewdwr
https://biography.wales/article/arc_s-RHYS-APT-1093

Name: Rhys Ap Tewdwr
Date of death: 1093
Spouse: Gwladys ferch Rhiwallon ap Cynfyn
Child: Nest ferch Rhys ap Tewdwr
Child: Hywel ap Rhys ap Tewdwr
Child: Gruffydd ap Rhys ap Tewdwr
Parent: Tewdwr ap Cadell
Gender: Male
Area of activity: Royalty and Society; Politics, Government and Political Movements
Author: Thomas Jones Pierce

[Treefrog]

21. Still better than how the op spelled it.

[marble falls]

23. Entertainment prospects must be pretty dry where you are.

[Treefrog]

27. Why cant you admit to misspelling it? I find that odd.

I’m a huge fan of the Tudors and it bothered me. My entertainment prospects are just fine, and reading about people who know nothing is endlessly entertaining.

[marble falls]

33. I find it odd you need a confession. OK, I confess ...

I think you take things way too seriously.

[Treefrog]

35. I take names seriously.

Would you object to yours being misspelled again and again? Sorry that offends you, No, not sorry.

[marble falls]

38. Odd. You take spelling so seriously but you have no trouble attempting to offend someone ...

Curiously though: how do you know the Tutors are offended? Weegee board?

You assume the dead Tutor's insult, but you have no problem attempting to insult me.

It just gives me the sadz. There. All better.

[Treefrog]

45. "Wee gee"? Oh good lord.

Tudor. Say it. Spell it. You can do it.

[Treefrog]

46. Can you really not spell the name correctly??

You have to be a male. Lol.

[Disaffected]

43. Hey Treefog, here's some advice:

Enough already.

[Treefrog]

47. Thanks dear.

Bless your heart.

[WhiteTara]

24. Misspelling drives me crazy too.

We should get jobs as proof readers. I read so many on line articles that desperately need us.

[Treefrog]

29. Lol.

Just funny to see someone do it twice without correcting. Especially an actual name.

[Treefrog]

22. Welsh. But still not "Tutor".

[WhiteTara]

26. nor two doors

[marble falls]

25. Must be, you can't seem to let it go!

[Treefrog]

18. If your book refers to the "Tutor age" then it's no kind of book at all.

Put it in the garbage.

[Treefrog]

32. Edward Vl.

Oh my goodness.

[babylonsister]

17. How very generous!

I would be interested in 3, 6, and 7 if still available.

Do you have a book exchange anywhere close by? Get stuff you haven't read for stuff you have?

[marble falls]

31. YOURS! It is almost impossible to buy a new book or any magazine not about guns, guns, cooking.

message the address!

The trade is nothing. I buy from the one used book store in the county. And their stock is half bodice rippers and 1/4 sewing/craft books.

[babylonsister]

40. Thank you kindly!!

[marble falls]

42. I bought and read then gaveaway that Mitchell book at least five times. It's like a time machine.

A great book for these who claim to not like to read. His stories about the origional AA families in the now long gone fishing and farming rural towns on Long Island is truly amazing.

[babylonsister]

52. Ooh, sounds good, and I am originally

from LI so will take great interest in it!!

[Brother Buzz]

19. I'll put YOUR copy of Ringolevio back into the mix, too

It was a GREAT read; you have no idea how much I got out of it (I regret it wasn't indexed). It's time pay it forward.

I had some nagging suspicions, but after a serendipitous telephone call just a month ago, I confirmed I actually met Emmett Grogan in 1966.

[marble falls]

28. You're the man, Buzz! LOVED that book, I sent it to a good home and a good DU pal!

I swear I talked to him at Port Huron, but it was crazy there, who knows.

[Brother Buzz]

58. Well, The Port Huron Statement was on the table, and the famous road trip was on

Peter Berg, Emmett Grogen, Bill Fritsch and Billy Murcott made that famous road trip to Michigan and present the Digger alternative as part of the future that Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) should strive for.

Bill Fritsch/aka Sweet William Tumbleweed penned this, published anonymously, after the bizarre encounter:



Emmett's account may be a little sketchy, but I trust Peter Berg's version:

https://diggersdocs.home.blog/tag/peter-berg/

[marble falls]

54. Have I got a book for you! I always remove adresses and names from my 'puter: so resend yours.

A detective novel. By Emmett Grogan.

[IcyPeas]

34. paper crafts.

do you know any crafters? there are a lot of uses for old books that someone may like:

https://www.papercraftermagazine.co.uk/blog/21-things-to-make-from-old-books

[marble falls]

39. Those are great ...

1. My books aren't that nice. None Leather or leatherette.
2. There's not enough crafters.
3. If I did it, my shelves would still be filled with books.

I'm in my 70's, fighting cancer, my handworking days are behind me. I dyed fabric and taught dyeing and oil painting for many years.

Wait till I start offering my art supplies up if I can't find a school to take it. I own eight easels, hundreds of brushes and uncounted tubes of oil. This will not be a casual operation. I've sent enough stuff to my granddaughter for her studio. Did not dent it.

[Polly Hennessey]

48. There is a cozy mystery series by Maggie Seffton.

Our cozy heroine is involved in a knitting shop where everyone knits, crochets, and solves mysteries. I learned about yarn dyeing. Fascinating and time consuming work. Remember, MarbleFalls, just be you whether you are Tutoring, Tutering, or Tewdring. Minor stuff doesn’t matter and we will always have the Scolds with us.

[marble falls]

53. I'm left handed dyslexic. I got involved with being quick, typing and trying to keep up ...

... and someone got snippy. After 70 years: no one and nothing gets my goat. A few years ago I might have pointed out that correct spelling is the last refuge for a pendant. But I am much more diplomatic these days.

So do you vat dye or space dye the roving and spin; or vat die or space dye the finished yarn?

I still have roving, and I've been playing with felting it.

[niyad]

49. You beat me to it!

[yardwork]

36. This is so kind and generous of you!

[birdographer]

37. An advantage to the Kindle

I don't have storage room for any more books here, so I moved to Kindle, if Libby, the library app, doesn't have it.

[barbtries]

41. i am a member of this website

you post books at no charge and pay only for postage to send them. For every book you post that is sent, you get a credit for a book from another member.

i keep my house from being overrun this way.

paperbackswap.com

[marble falls]

44. That's way cool!!! Thankyou. Now I will stop filling bookshelves!

[barbtries]

57. i've been a member for years.

even though it's paperbackswap.com, you can also post hardcovers. When I have a credit I always look there first for a book I want to read and unless it's just recently been released, usually find it.

[niyad]

50. What a lovely, generous offer. . When you think about your studio, I can think of several art

instructors and studios here To possibly contact.

In the meantime, take the best possible care of yourself that you can. You are a loved and valued member of our DU family.

[marble falls]

51. All I ask is someone gets to use them. It would depress me to think I'd have forced ...

... my kids to deal with all this stuff, and then it ended up in a dumpster.

Then there's the three looms. And the four spinning wheels. Did I mention I still have all my drafting tools and then a pile more? Oh, and three boxes of mechanics and hand tools, too.

The mechanic and hand tools are easy - put them on a table and pfft!

The rest of it? Not so much.

[Thtwudbeme]

60. Public Art Magnet schools would love to have your supplies!

I am a middle school media coordinator (librarian)--- many of the public art magnet schools are also Title I, and students are not able to buy their own supplies.

Please contact me when you are ready, and I can get you in touch with art teachers that would love to get your art "stuff" into the hands of children who cannot afford it! It's very likely you have children very near you that would love that opportunity.

[marble falls]

62. We don't get nice things like that here in rural Texas. We do have a "christian" academy ...

... that has been recognized by the state for 'academic excellence' (the kids all look like a successful genetics experiment to produce Aryans0 that does have an art program.

But these kids have everything they need.

I thought about (and tried to teach there) the Boys and Girls Club, but they are way too young, too wound up after school, and really need activity more than learning. I do buy jugs of acrylic paint and student brushes, and find things suitable more along the lines of craft and take them there. I do know that the last director took the cream of the supplies home. But I do realize that after gifting, how the gifted use a gift is none of my business.

In that you offered, I will check with you first. But I might be a year before I get the art stuff - I still teach oil painting. I've been sending supplies for things I do not have the strength or time to do to people I know do craft/art.

The looms are going to be tough - I buy, rebuilt and sell looms and wheels, and while they take time - I sell them all in time The three I have now are one I've had a long time and two of those actually required me to fabricate major parts. The third is almost the same as the one my grand-father owned from the 1920's and I remember waking up on Saturdays when he would bang out rag carpets in the cellar. It would wake me up and I'd go down and watch him on that loom.

When they came off the farm in '63, they sold that loom. So there an illogical emotional attachment that, while still rational, is pretty deep to be held for an object.

It wouldn't leave a burning house before the kids, but it'd be right after.

I love fabric arts. Even oil painting is on fabric.

[Thtwudbeme]

67. I am sending you a PM

with an article about one of the art teachers at a public arts magnet school in NC- even though the article is not about fabric art, it will give you an idea of some of the cool things the art teachers are doing.

[niyad]

61. Let me know when you think about the looms and spinning wheels. I know several weavers and

spinners, and we have a small historic site that features such (along with the sheep&quot

[marble falls]

63. Here is the only drag about looms, specially big ones: sending them out of state costs dearly ...

I was lucky, I know how to use drop ship and have several friends with loading docks I can use.

The big Union loom I bought in Ohio. My son picked it up and shipped it from his business - Blue Sky Bee Supply (shameless plug - https://blueskybeesupply.com/) who crated it and sent it to Marble Falls and a friend of mine's loading dock) for around $300 (maybe doubled if I had had the loom broken down, boxed and UPS'd.)

If they're close to Texas, heck - I'd probably deliver or meet half way.

Let me get some photos of the two smaller looms - a 16" table Leclerc, and a 24" four frame
Schacht floor loom with pedals.


Did I mention my Singer Feather Weight, or my Singer 16L? Of course those'll sell locally as soon as I list them.

I just got too sick too quick.

[niyad]

64. I am drooling over them, and I don't even spin/weave! Shipping, of course, would be costly, as we

are in Colorado Springs (although one person I am thinking of would probably be willing to drive!) Do you have a nearby chapter of SCA- Society for Creative Anachronisms? Or local Rennies (the RenaissanceFaire people)?

[marble falls]

65. If someone in Colorado Springs is serious, I've been known to drive to Trinidad for the .. ah .. air

Let me get the photo's to you. The table top Leclerc is an inexpensive and easy loom to work on.
The hard part of weaving is loading it. If you are patient and into detail this can be a very satisfying meditative work. It's from the mid 60's in excellent shape. The lever on top was modified for a person with a hand injury and I think it actually improved the ease of use with this machine. If you were tempted - this would be a very good first machine.

But this one is actually small enough to ship. And for not very much - it does fold flat.

[niyad]

66. Ah, yes. .The . .air. . in Trinidad is very uplifting. If your phone takes pics, you can send them

to mine whenever you like. This sounds wonderful.

[fierywoman]

55. There are a number of Goodwill stores that sell books 2nd hand via Amazon --

perhaps that would be a way to go?

[marble falls]

56. The Goodwill store here doesn't do it. The valuable art books have been sold to 1/2 Price Books ...

... Austin.

The problem w/Goodwill is they take all book, cherry pick them, put the rest on shelves, and then they pulp the remainders.

[Raine]

59. Such a nice thing to do! 👍🙂