I’m also
pretty confident that many of you – like me – are almost constitutionally
incapable of throwing books out. Even if most of them are somewhat aged, worn
paperbacks, I’m still not one to throw them away. With the trash? Books? Not
gonna happen.
But
sometimes to you have to make room for more, if you follow me. A recent Boston Globe article https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/02/16/leaves-anguish-one-family-quest-shows-challenges-finding-new-homes-for-old-books/AMzDRAwIiqDoDr01vG6CaP/story.html got me to thinking about all this. It analyzes how some families, after the death of a loved one, find themselves with a LOT of books. Where to put them?
It’s getting
more difficult to find “good homes” for those books. These books may not be
collectors’ items or first editions. And not all used bookstores can take them.
They, too, can only handle so many.
My
neighborhood library here in Boston holds a book sale/flea market each spring.
Usually I can round up a bag of paperbacks for them. And a few hardcovers
perhaps. Maybe someone buys a few for a buck a book? And the library gets the money. Good enough for me.
So what do some of you do when there are, pardon the expression, too many
books?
Any other suggestions?
4 comments:
Wow, I thought this blog had gone dead! How did you manage to post to it? Glad to see it active again.
There are a number of drop boxes for used books here in Athens, GA. I use a drop box for books I don't like..
Does anyone know who's in charge at OTP now? Apparently Billie Johnson had a stroke in June 2016 and is in a long-term care facility. And Jeana no longer works there.
I need to have a mock-up of an ARC that was never published removed that Billie or someone posted to Amazon two years ago.
Thanks! John Gordon (johngordon7676@gmail.com)
good job
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