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I wanna sell these books...help me choose?
1ddqd
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But not all of them!
Or maybe all of them...
But, WB, I can't for the life of me decide which ones I want to keep. I made a post in chat about having books to fill my nice bookshelf. With that in mind, I'm leaning to keeping the hard covers.
K S 01 Wizards First Rule: Terry Goodkind
K S 02 Wizard and Glass: Steven King
K S 03 Wolves of the Calla: Steven King
K S 04 A Game of Thrones: George R.R. Martin
K S 05 The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand
K S 06 Animal Farm: George Orwell
K S 07 The Worse Case Scenario Survival Handbook
K S 08 The Worse Case Scenario Survival Handbook - Extreme Edition
K S 09 His Dark Materials (all 3): Philip Pullman
K S 10 Founding Brothers: Joseph Ellis
K S 11 Brave New World: Aldous Huxley
K S 12 1812: Walter Borneman
K S 13 The Sirens of Titan: Kurt Vonnegut
K S 14 Cat's Cradle: Kurt Vonnegut
K S 15 White Jacket: Herman Melville
K S 16 A Clockwork Orange: Anthony Burgess
K S 17 Thus Spake Zarathustra
K S 18 The Silmarillion: Tolkien
K S 19 Masters of Doom
K S 20 US Army Survival Manual
K S 21 Truancy (have a feeling someone here will want me keeping that one...
K S 22 Next: Michael Crichton
K S 23 The Silmarillion (with Illustrations!)
Anyways, I set it up so all you have to do is quote the post and delete K or S to help me decide!
Or maybe all of them...
But, WB, I can't for the life of me decide which ones I want to keep. I made a post in chat about having books to fill my nice bookshelf. With that in mind, I'm leaning to keeping the hard covers.
K S 01 Wizards First Rule: Terry Goodkind
K S 02 Wizard and Glass: Steven King
K S 03 Wolves of the Calla: Steven King
K S 04 A Game of Thrones: George R.R. Martin
K S 05 The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand
K S 06 Animal Farm: George Orwell
K S 07 The Worse Case Scenario Survival Handbook
K S 08 The Worse Case Scenario Survival Handbook - Extreme Edition
K S 09 His Dark Materials (all 3): Philip Pullman
K S 10 Founding Brothers: Joseph Ellis
K S 11 Brave New World: Aldous Huxley
K S 12 1812: Walter Borneman
K S 13 The Sirens of Titan: Kurt Vonnegut
K S 14 Cat's Cradle: Kurt Vonnegut
K S 15 White Jacket: Herman Melville
K S 16 A Clockwork Orange: Anthony Burgess
K S 17 Thus Spake Zarathustra
K S 18 The Silmarillion: Tolkien
K S 19 Masters of Doom
K S 20 US Army Survival Manual
K S 21 Truancy (have a feeling someone here will want me keeping that one...
K S 22 Next: Michael Crichton
K S 23 The Silmarillion (with Illustrations!)
Anyways, I set it up so all you have to do is quote the post and delete K or S to help me decide!
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Instead of selling these to Half Price Books or something, how about giving them away? I mean, I won't get much for the books anyways and I know plenty of people who like to read.
Do any of you guys want some books? Free? Shipping only?
How do things like this work? Just give someone a book?
IF you just need to get rid of them, then yeah, I'd be a freindly friend and find some folks/library that needs books.
If not though, honestly I think they are all pretty good books. I only see one or two I would get rid of. I'm the type that will re-read boook though.
Otherwise, I think what you choose to keep is a very personal choice. I would use three criteria to decide:
(1) Is this a book you'll read again?
(2) Is this a book you'll loan out?
(3) Is this a book you'll want your (hypothetical) kids to read?
If at least one of the above is true, keep it. If not, dump it. You may be tempted to keep a book because you feel you "should" own it, but that is silly.
I personally could probably boil all three of those questions down into question (3), but YMMV.
You know, I think I like this the most. In fact, I like the library idea, so I'm just going to combine
Most likely Q3 is the one that really strikes a chord - I'll probably keep all the hard covers and collected works just for that. The ones I won't be keeping I'll give away to the library. I don't like the way a worn paperback looks on the shelf (even though that's a sort of badge of pride)
Thanks H/A!
ps:
This spoiler just makes me sad
And to stay on topic, definitely consider donating to the library. When I moved to VA I had to leave a lot of books behind because I had a small car and could only make one trip, so I hit up the local library sales to replenish my stock. After that I decided I'd just donate from now on.
What was that? It's hard to hear you with the sound of Tolkien rolling in his grave in the background.
I think reading Hobbit as a kid is what made me love fantasy books/shows/everything now.
Well, crap, maybe I won't be introducing him that early. I mean...come on, look at us. 10:30pm on a Friday and we're on PA boards...
I have the lights on
I'm not sure I can definitively say that reading the Hobbit as a kid made me love reading the PA forum on a friday night while wrapping my nude body in bubble wrap. I mean, I'm PRETTY sure Hobbit came first right?
S 02 Wizard and Glass: Steven King
K 03 Wolves of the Calla: Steven King
K 04 A Game of Thrones: George R.R. Martin
S 05 The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand
K 06 Animal Farm: George Orwell
S 07 The Worse Case Scenario Survival Handbook
K 08 The Worse Case Scenario Survival Handbook - Extreme Edition
S 09 His Dark Materials (all 3): Philip Pullman
S 10 Founding Brothers: Joseph Ellis
K 11 Brave New World: Aldous Huxley
K 12 1812: Walter Borneman
S 13 The Sirens of Titan: Kurt Vonnegut
S 14 Cat's Cradle: Kurt Vonnegut
K 15 White Jacket: Herman Melville
K 16 A Clockwork Orange: Anthony Burgess
S 17 Thus Spake Zarathustra
S 18 The Silmarillion: Tolkien
S 19 Masters of Doom
S 20 US Army Survival Manual
K 21 Truancy (have a feeling someone here will want me keeping that one...
S 22 Next: Michael Crichton
K 23 The Silmarillion (with Illustrations!)
but yeah thats like not even a bookshelf worth, I haven't sold a novel that I bought all my life and as a result have about 2 5shelf bookcases worth of novels.
Tell me where you work. I will buy a goddamn plane ticket to whatever corner of the earth you call home, and you will take me to these fuckers so I can hit them over the head repeatedly with single volume hard cover editions.
Keep: Tolkien, Vonnegut, Orwell, Huxley, Burgess, Melville
Sell: The rest, with some possible maybes
How do you guys feel about collected Graphic Novels instead of the individuals?
Yeah, I think it's better off if people forget that the LOTR book version ever existed
Since the movies outclass it in every conceivable way
You could always try Amazon's marketplace thing. I've purchased several used books from it. Now I think about I could get my Vonnegut off there... Wish I knew about it those months ago before the whole leaving Canada thing.
....seriously?
Youre twenty minutes from Sidney
Sidney booktown
there are so many used bookstores here im sure you could fine SOME vonnegut
I just picked up God Bless You, Mr Rosewater for 3 bucks at one
Thats where I got Slapstick and Breakfast of Champions too.
You should have just driven down and raided the bookstores here
Driving my car to Sidney cost me at about $10.