Talk me into selling my books.

~daisy~_2

honey send some to me i need em for my hols next week - oh i forgot to tell you im off for a fortnight xx

i buy most of mine from charity shops so feel no qulams about passing onto friends or back to charity shops - i keep ones from fav authors tho

aliasojo

~daisy~ wrote: »

honey send some to me i need em for my hols next week - oh i forgot to tell you im off for a fortnight xx

i buy most of mine from charity shops so feel no qulams about passing onto friends or back to charity shops - i keep ones from fav authors tho

I would genuinely and happily send you some daisy. I'm not sure everyone shares my taste in reading material though, I tend to opt for what I term 'dark cover' books. Thrillers, horrors, murder mysteries etc....I'm not a Mills & Boon type.

Where are you going you jammy git?

Decluttering

*Sigh* My room is turning into a library too. In the sort of way that they spill off the shelves and into the wardrobe, under the bed, on top of random surfaces...

I used to use GreenMetropolis but I never took to it. I sold one book and it seemed to get lost. I also didn't agree with the fact that they were listing my books on Amazon (I could do that myself on my own terms). I don't really use ReadItSwapIt any more but I am active on their forums and I find it a good social experience from time to time.

But the saviour of clearouts online is BookMooch in my opinion. Fellow BookMoochers are like vultures, I put up a favourite book, turn my back for an hour and it's snapped up before I can change my mind! BookMooch works on a points system and you can use these points to get books you want in return for your old ones. If you don't plan to use these points you could donate them to a charity account or I put the points towards an international mooch (slightly more expensive) so there are more books going out than in!


Here's what I do when I want to clear out...

- Select a target area (e.g books that aren't on the bookcase, books on the top shelf etc etc) and take them all off and empty them onto a bed.

- Count them, then half that number to find a target figure of books to get rid of and do your best to stick to it!

- Go through the books and decide which ones are keepers and which ones are to be rehomed until you've got two evenly proportioned piles.


Car boot sales are like a real life BookMooch, you won't miss them when you have space and some spare cash!

pulliptears

I think I probably have every bloomin vampire book in print hehe

~daisy~_2

aliasojo wrote: »

I would genuinely and happily send you some daisy. I'm not sure everyone shares my taste in reading material though, I tend to opt for what I term 'dark cover' books. Thrillers, horrors, murder mysteries etc....I'm not a Mills & Boon type.

Where are you going you jammy git?

i dont like M&B but i do like pink fluffy chick lit that yo!!u dont need to think about .....but am open to educating

off to turkey a week today for a fortnight - was meant to be going to cuba back in may but hubbys troubles put paid to that so this is instead
we are lucky enough to normally have 3 weeks abroad a year so we are all desperate to get away and hopefully see some sun
we really need the time to reconnect as a family too - my boy is rapidly turning into a delinquent sadly ....

Savvy_Sue

aliasojo wrote: »

When these first electronic readers came out I thought it was a horrible idea tbh. I didn't see the point and there's something basic and just nice about having a book in your hand.

However, I think I've changed my mind about this after lying in bed one night when I couldn't sleep, trying to read a book by torchlight so I wouldn't disturb OH. Made no odds though, he said the noise of me turning the pages was annoying him instead.

One of these things would cover both problems, it would be backlit so I wouldn't need a torch and it wouldn't be noisy if I was turning the pages. Mmm....might hint to the 'kids' to club together for my birthday. :rotfl:

DS2 has just bought one, we think we need one (each) for Christmas, but what to do about all the real books? DH hates parting with books, somewhere we're going to find 40 year old Maths text books which he bought second hand and won't part with 'in case the boys want them'. I tried to get rid when we moved, but he found them ... Needless to say the boys have NEVER expressed interest in them, although if they'd surfaced before DS2 got his Kindle he might have taken a look, he does read Maths books for pleasure, strange child that he is!

aliasojo wrote: »

I was mistaken about it being backlit though, so would need to get some sort of case with a light or a clip on light etc.

I think I'd prefer it backlit too.

aliasojo wrote: »

Oh I wish. :rotfl: Buy me one then.

Couldn't afford that I'm afraid, even if I bullied the kids for months. :rotfl:

But I definitely prefer the Kindle to the I-pad, small IS beautiful and the I-pad is too big for reading in bed, or to keep in your handbag.

Vaila

i used to have a huuuuuuuuuuuge collection of books, but dropped loads of at a few charity shops (one of the shops said that they werent prepared to take the lot as the stockroom was to full!) however my brother has amassed a loft full of broons, oor wullie and dandy annuals, some of which are rather old but i think that the amount of effort that goes into selling them on amazon and kindle is not worth it when you add all the fees and pp on

scubaangel

I'm much the same, can't bare to let my books go but I find that listing them on amazon and greenmet isn't too painful since it can be months before they sell. At the moment I'm saving my greenmet money to put towards an e-reader although I'm not sure which one yet. Sadly since I moved all my listing are suspended as the books still live at my dads house rather than with me here - but I've had to open a new account because I've already accumulated another 15+ (ish) books since the move which I simply don't have any storage space for as my room here lacks a bookshelf of any sort.

onlyroz

Sell them, give them away, being honest about which books you'll actually read again. Then buy a kindle or other ebook reader and buy all your future fiction in ebook format.

Savvy_Sue

scubaangel wrote: »

I'm much the same, can't bare to let my books go but I find that listing them on amazon and greenmet isn't too painful since it can be months before they sell.

My worry is that I'd 'lose' them in those months: we already have multiple copies of some books because the boys wanted to read eg Catch 22, and although we knew we had it SOMEWHERE it couldn't be found. Then it was ... twice ...

I know I'd have to use a sealed box which no-one was allowed to even peek into! :rotfl: