I purged a bunch of books right at the end of 2010. All of them were fiction books and I managed to sell them all to a local used-bookstore for store credit. I hope they all found happy new homes. It feels good to have the extra space on the bookshelves again, but it was a pain in the patooty to search them all out and delete them from my LibraryThing catalog.
But sometimes you just have to purge.
I had a fiction problem last year. It’s like having too much sugar in your sweet tea. After a while it affects your taste buds (and waist line), but I digress…. So far I am on track with making 2011 a non-fiction-only year. A little scary. With only three months under my belt I’m already “jonesing” for a fiction fix. So this may wind up only being a non-fiction-6-month experiment. Maybe like a cleansing? Detox?
I hope your reading year is off to a great start!
How was your experience selling books back? Did you think it a fair trade for store credit?
I have a hard time letting books go but I think I need to clear out my shelves. I have a lot of stuff I will NEVER read again. Just wondering if the selling process went ok for you. Also, if you got store credit will you be using it to buy books that you will keep in the long run or will they go back eventually?
I'm glad to know there is someone else out there with the same “sell back/book value concerns” I have.
I sold them back at 2nd & Charles. They make the buy back price SEEM fairer than most shops by comparing it to the cash they're willing to give you. So it's something akin to “We'll give you $45 in store credit for those books or $11 in cash.”
I did take the store credit and I will spend it all there, on books. My long term plan is to build a library of books that I could never consider selling. Books that have my margin notes or impacted the way I think. 95% of the time, those types of books are non-fiction. Hence the Great Fiction Purge of 2010. I did keep some fiction. Many are just too good to let go. Of course, this thinking may be too “New Years resolution” thinking and may soon be over ridden by my “need” to be surrounded by books.
If you're looking to get into a “circular relationship” with a bookshop, you might try 'Books Etc.” down in Pelham. It's a smaller mostly Fiction shop, but he pays out higher store credit, if you trade back in a book that you originally bought from him.
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I'm glad to know there is someone else out there with the same “sell back/book value concerns” I have.
I sold them back at 2nd & Charles. They make the buy back price SEEM fairer than most shops by comparing it to the cash they're willing to give you. So it's something akin to “We'll give you $45 in store credit for those books or $11 in cash.”
I did take the store credit and I will spend it all there, on books. My long term plan is to build a library of books that I could never consider selling. Books that have my margin notes or impacted the way I think. 95% of the time, those types of books are non-fiction. Hence the Great Fiction Purge of 2010. I did keep some fiction. Many are just too good to let go. Of course, this thinking may be too “New Years resolution” thinking and may soon be over ridden by my “need” to be surrounded by books.
If you're looking to get into a “circular relationship” with a bookshop, you might try 'Books Etc.” down in Pelham. It's a smaller mostly Fiction shop, but he pays out higher store credit, if you trade back in a book that you originally bought from him.
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