'No More Buying Books Until I've Read the Ones I've Already Bought' Thread

Island.girl

Does anyone know if this rumour is true. I was on facebook today and I read a post that says book shops just throw away the books that don't sell. Apparently once a month theres a skip full of them.

Happygreen

Island.girl wrote: »

Does anyone know if this rumour is true. I was on facebook today and I read a post that says book shops just throw away the books that don't sell. Apparently once a month theres a skip full of them.

I'm pretty sure that they get sent back to the publishers...who then cut out deals with companies like TheBookPeople? I wish I knew where the skips are, if the rumour is true! It's not like books are perishable goods!

mrs-moneypenny

I would think they are more likely to be returned and sold likehappygreen says at different outlets. I would hate to think that books would get just destroyed.

Island.girl

Thanks I googled and it seems some places have been spotted throwing perfectly good books out.. Mainly charity shops which is a real shame

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Island.girl wrote: »

Thanks I googled and it seems some places have been spotted throwing perfectly good books out.. Mainly charity shops which is a real shame

Yes, I think it is charity shops that cull their stock regularly and dump them:(. I asked at one of my local charity shops what they did with books that they removed from the shelves/unsold stock and they said they had a contract with a recycler who comes and takes huge amounts of books. She said they pay the charity very little for them and she thought they went for pulping:eek:. Serves them right for pricing themselves out of the market with their exorbitant book prices if it means they lose money but a crying shame for the waste of good books.

My local Recycling Centre (formerly the tip, now very upmarket;)) has huge skips of such books but they have a strict 'nothing must be taken and removed from this site' policy (unless you want to be shot that is!). I once took a box of fairly decent but unwanted/unsaleable books there and asked the attendant if I could swap them for others in the skip ( say 10 in/10 out type of thing) and he was adamant that it was more than his 'jobsworth'. Totally criminal policy IMO:mad:.

MrCrimeFiction

You have to think though, as they are not about profit, why not lower the price and sell more?

It's probably all controlled by A business man anyway who doesn't care about service. I've been really slow at reading this weekend, hit a poor bit of the book And struggling to continue. Maybe a few chapters with some hot chocolate will help.

Anyone read luke delaney's new book?

InaPickle

Hello eveyone!

I just bought a new book: Forgotten Girl by Naomi Jacobs.

This is a completely and totally guilt free purchase. I look forward to reading it and I'm pretty sure that it will be amazing!

I'll let you know what it was like when I'm finished.

LolaLemon

wishus wrote: »

LolaLemon, I can indeed confirm that The Girl With All the Gifts was awesome - I think the best book I have read so far this year.

And then I went and found out that there is a film being made of it right now - starring Paddy Considine as Sergeant Parks! I love Paddy! :happyhear Also Glenn Close as the cold and calculating Doctor Caldwell and Gemma Arterton as the kind-hearted teacher, Helen Justineau.

So, Melanie is a little girl and normal life for her is being strapped into a chair and wheeled out of her cell at gunpoint every morning to go to class. She jokes that she won't bite, but no one laughs. Her favourite teacher is Miss Justineau, because she's kind and loves to tell stories, especially about the Greek Myths, and Melanie's favourite is the story of Pandora. she loves her and writes stories of how she will save her one day, like the Greek heroes.

Melanie would love to hug her teacher, but she can't, because she's a 'hungry'. They are the outside people, who got sick and attacked people when the Breakdown happened. That's why they have to stay on the base. Of course, Melanie and her classmates are not like the other hungries. But that's because of the guns and the straps and the e-blockers people where to stop them smelling like food.

Life could carry on the way it is, but some of Melanie's classmates get taken away and never come back. But of course, they'd never choose Melanie, because she's so clever and Miss Justineau loves her... or would they?

It's absolutely brilliant. Gory, but so terribly well told.

Now reading Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl by David Barnett, also from the library.

You have sold me on this!
It has now officially made it on to my 'must source' book list and that doesnt happen that often!

wishus

This is indeed terrible! :eek:

It has made me think twice about taking books to charity shops, I must say!

I go to book events and there is often a table for book swaps and freebies. Many of us would rather they were hoarded and cluttering our houses than destroyed, but if you really don't want them... well, some one might.

As my Kindle has proved to be a tad unreliable, I'm sure there will be a day soon when the streets will resound with cries of "Damn you, Amazooon!" as everyone's fails. :rotfl:

kezbabybabe

I've finished The Host, it picked up pace once I understood the story line more.

Still working my way through Morning Star on the Kindle app.

Bedtime book is now Twenty Thousands Leagues Under the Sea, another Classic Adventure book.

The charity shop comments do intrigue me. I think a £1 or so for a second hand book to be great value for money, particularly as it's going to that charity's area of work. Sometimes when I see some of the items that are pristine, I think they are not charging enough!
The issue is that mainstream shops are starting to price their books too cheaply, so that the charity shops are looking higher price in comparison and are probably experiencing overstocks as a result.
My church is involved in a charity shop in Swindon that's run in conjunction with Healthy Planet and they are giving books away for free, so that they don't go to refill:
https://beta.healthyplanet.org/what-we-do/sustainable-community/books-for-free