The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

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Well I am very impressed with the click and collect scheme - I ordered a pot luck selection of several genres last night online, got a phone call this morning to tell me how to collect and now have an appointment on Friday to get them - they are shut tomorrow but coming to my local branch (1 mile away) so that's very accessible. I asked for 10, hoping something in there might suit, getting a bit excited now!

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wondercollie said:

Isn't that a form of censorship?  Deciding on what non-fiction your customers will have access to?

When I worked in a charity shop some of the books received were in an appalling condition and just couldn't go on display. The funniest one I saw was held together with a rubber band with a note on the front in spidery writing saying 'Pages 87-92 missing but makes no difference to the story.'

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Serendipitious said:

When I worked in a charity shop some of the books received were in an appalling condition and just couldn't go on display. The funniest one I saw was held together with a rubber band with a note on the front in spidery writing saying 'Pages 87-92 missing but makes no difference to the story.'

Ah I needed that, thank you for cheering me up. I would have put it out just to make customers chuckle although someone would no doubt have complained. 

silvasava

When I was in Junior school the Library (in a big wooden hut) was on the way home from school. I loved Norse and greek mythology - just old fairytales to me then.  Later I had a Saturday job at a holiday camp and on the way home used to pass a newsagents that had a second hand book stand outside and I bought a lovely thick copy of Tales of the Arabian Nights - thinking it was in a similar vein, not knowing it was from the original - boy did that add to my education!!  Still buy second hand books though

annieb64

I try to put out books that will sell. History, art and cookery are the most popular. There's  not much demand for out of date law, computer  or accountancy books . Crime novels are probably our most popular fiction. 

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We had a pick up once every week in the charity shop for sacks of books too damaged or just not likely to sell, for pulping and also a pick up once a week for sacks of clothing and household donations just too badly worn or damaged as rags.  We got a fair bit of income from it too. 

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annieb64 said:

I try to put out books that will sell. History, art and cookery are the most popular. There's  not much demand for out of date law, computer  or accountancy books . Crime novels are probably our most popular fiction. 

It would make sense for the publishers of the law, computer, accountancy books etc to setup a scheme whereby they can be returned to them for scanning and saving in some kind of archive (if it hasn't already been archived). It would make them more readily accessible to anyone trying to look up something from the past, and means that if it was already archived, the person with the book can dispose of it appropriately. More and more of these types of books are becoming available to purchase in PDF format, for new students, so there should be less being dumped on charity shops in future.

cornishchick

" cornishchick ...GP has signed me off work till the 18th of Feb, continuing fatigue and muscle pain. I have only been working there for 3 months, so not sure about SSP. "

so annoyed and worried right now but glad I prep in the way of knowing about accountability and paper trails!, continued the email thread to my manager regarding my continuing health issues ( the first two were not even acknowledged! ) he replied yesterday saying he had heard I had left the post and is that not true? !!! really you listen to rumors and gossip? 
 I replied that not once Have I mentioned leaving or not coming back ever to him and surely his job as the manager would be to check information like that????????
really glad I rejoined Unison at the beginning of the year!!!!!!!! 
( forgive all the !!  I don't have a diseased mind lol  )

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cornishchick said:

" cornishchick ...GP has signed me off work till the 18th of Feb, continuing fatigue and muscle pain. I have only been working there for 3 months, so not sure about SSP. "

so annoyed and worried right now but glad I prep in the way of knowing about accountability and paper trails!, continued the email thread to my manager regarding my continuing health issues ( the first two were not even acknowledged! ) he replied yesterday saying he had heard I had left the post and is that not true? !!! really you listen to rumors and gossip? 
 I replied that not once Have I mentioned leaving or not coming back ever to him and surely his job as the manager would be to check information like that????????
really glad I rejoined Unison at the beginning of the year!!!!!!!! 
( forgive all the !!  I don't have a diseased mind lol  )

That's the last thing you need when you're not well. You'd think a manager would be much more supportive given the pandemic  and all its implications for work, and all the guidance that's been issued, but yours sounds like he's not even up to the job to begin with.

Are there any benefits you can access? I became eligible for UC last Spring/Summer and it was a huge relief - not so much for the money although every little helps, but for the fact that if I became unwell at least something was in place to help pay the bills. (I was on ZHC though,  so the prospect of being unable to work was scary.)

Look after yourself. x

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greenbee said:

Accountancy text books, tax law... there's a LONG list of burnable books out there

Any out of date reference text (tax law, even old first aid books 'butter on a burn' ye gods) should be recycled & if that means burning them, then in coffin type crates in a power station so you get full use & no bad examples. I think the idea of Mills & Boon as substrate for roads wonderful & quietly wonder which engineer came up with that. 
My offspring tell me the storage room (ahem) is full of boxes of books that have got wet. (I boxed them in plastic crates over 15 years ago & have never gone back to check.) If the books are mostly flat & the pages flip correctly, charity shops ho. If not, what do you recommend, as I personally cannot burn books.