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Originally Posted by Poppaea
First I gave mine to the hospitals and library. Last year I sold them on the internet. While I didn't make a fortune, I was surprised when I ended up with 150€ for one cardboard box of books.  |
How did you sell them? eBay? Amazon?
The cool thing about selling them, is that you know that the person who gets them actually wants them. I have gotten rid of books that I wouldn't mind seeing end up in the landfill, but for books I'm actually fond of, selling them is a way to place them in good homes. I sold a bunch of used motorcycle parts on eBay under that philosophy. Frankly the $800 or so that I got for the parts was not really worth all the hours that I spend photographing, writing the auctions, answering dumb questions, scrounging boxes, packing and shipping, and dealing with little tiny payments. But I felt good knowing that while my beloved bike was gone, it was an organ donor that brought life to all those other people's beloved bikes. Without that to get me motivated, I probably never would have gotten around to shifting the dead bike out of my workshop.
So, maybe the books can be shifted, in similar fashion.