Wanted! A few good readers! Help keep my home library from ending up in a dumper or pulped! PT 2!!!

[marble falls]

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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.

This went well on Saturday with all claimed books going out on last Monday:



1. gone

2. Exterminator - William S. Burroughs

3. gone

4. Making of a Liberated Mind: John Henry Faulk - Michael C. Burton (one of the first blacklisted radio personalities and humor wroters)

5. gone
6. gone

7. Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard

8. gone

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

Thankyou!


Not responsible for any spelling or misspellings.


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

[Midnightwalk]

1. How?

I’d like to read Homage to Catalonia and A Spy In the House of Love of not spoken for.

[marble falls]

2. Yours! They will go out on Monday, pm me with where its going to.

[llmart]

3. FYI

Most local libraries have used book sales which help to raise money to support the library. If you have to, you could always donate them to your library.

[marble falls]

5. I would but they don't sell 20% of what they get. 80% gets pulped. The local library has ...

... two sales a year, where they sell books by the $5.00 a grocery sack. They don't sell half.

Where do all these books come from, you ask? Estate sale remainders. We're geezers out here. We got tons of books our kids in Oregon and Pennsylvania just don't want.

It really is a shame. I remember book stores, and I'd buy at the shops and sell to kids at school. We have one in town: cookbooks, bodice rippers, military, western, guns, anime, graphic novels ... not much. I think Walmart is the only place to buy a new hardback.

What can I say. Before the pandemic I collected books and magazines to take with me to the VA in Temple. But they haven't decided to allow them again.

I used buy a lot of $.10 books at book shops and 1/2 Price used to have carts of nickle and free books.

What can we do?

[llmart]

7. I guess it depends on the library.

Ours is a huge money maker. I work in the sorting area and make the decision as to what gets tossed. I also work the sales which, pre-pandemic were just crammed with people buying all sorts of books, etc. It is very popular in our area. Our local Barnes and Noble has a very large section of used books to purchase also.

[Retrograde]

8. But 20% is still better than 0%

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As I've stated before, I'm one of the people who sorts donations for my local Friends of the Library. Before the pandemic, we had monthly sales and even in the past year we've moved a lot with by-appointment sales. And we do get some great or interesting books donated.

However, there are still books that we can literally not give away. Old textbooks, spattered cookbooks, best sellers from the 1970s that no one remembers these days, books falling to pieces - and this week's find, a 20 year old high school literary magazine. At least if they're pulped, they're not going into landfill and there's a chance the material might be reused.

What can we do? Not buy as many books (let me put in ear plugs so I can't hear all the authors complain), or be more selective in what we buy? Given my age and the rate at which I read I'm buying a mere fraction of what I used to, and I'm getting too old and crotchety to take on other people's discards.

[csziggy]

9. Some libraries sell a lot, some very few

Usually it's the "Friends of the Library" that dispose of the books the library does not want.

My sister volunteers with her local Friends of the Library. She ended up making a deal with a paper recycling company that pulps the books they can't sell. They get $X per ton, but it adds to the library funds.

She also is the one who selects which books get pulped since she is the senior volunteer. All right wing screeds go immediately into the pulp bin, as do most of the romance books since the bodice ripper types don't sell well.

Our local library is winnowing out most of the hard copy books and pushing digital copies. They got rid of all the books concerning my hobby years ago. I bought the ones I could use, but I suspect many were pulped. I suspect that in twenty years my home library will be larger than the public library collection. I know my embroidery and needlework book collection is bigger than theirs ever was. So is my science fiction collection. While I do buy ebooks to read on vacation, I prefer a real book to read at home - plus our sci fi collection is mostly old classics from the 50s and 60s, which are hard to get in digital format.

[llmart]

10. Yes, I am a volunteer with our Friends group also.

Prior to that, I worked for ten years in libraries and was a library board member at one time. I'm actually glad to see that the paperback bodice rippers rarely sell. A lot of what I toss are the things that come in that have been stored in someone's old musty basement for decades and they're dirty and moldy and a liability for us to resell. Sometimes I have to toss hundreds of books because of that. I'm always surprised that some people think they've got a real treasure in these old moldy books. If they stink, they go out immediately! We don't even accept most textbooks. No one wants those. What we do get scads of are cookbooks and children's books.

[MerryBlooms]

4. #5 & #6, please!

[marble falls]

6. Yours! PM your mailing info.

[electric_blue68]

11. I'll be looking for your next list, if you make one...

Love 💖 books.
To have, hold, and (usually 😉 ) read, or view.

When I had to move to a way smaller space I had to leave about 150+ SF and some other books behind. It was under very stressful circumstances, so I didn't even think about donating. 😔

Learned simple to semi-complex book making/binding in Art College! Even artistically made my own end papers.😁

I have two small, and one medium bookcase.

[marble falls]

13. I've had time to play at paper making, book making has been a dream but I am running out of time.

[electric_blue68]

17. I missed this post. Ooops!

Well, you can start with simpler book making! That even include simpler pamphlet making. 🙂

Look up Artist Books.

They're not books about artists; they're art in various book forms - (even) single fold, pamphlet, Japanese "stab" bound, accordian, 2 or more signatures, usual, or; unusual bindings, and book covers, Scrolls etc

I think you'll find them fascinating.
And they can be made small - less materials so less money to spend, sometimes less time to make.

I did a bit if paper making in college. We had a class in 💖 marbliizing paper, too.

[marble falls]

14. Next list is next week. Wait till I start putting up art tools and supplies.

[electric_blue68]

18. Ooooo interesting. Love books, too.

[mnhtnbb]

12. I'll take #3

Sending you my address

[marble falls]

15. It's yours!

[marble falls]

16. Still three more great book on this lot!