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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Sorry. I tend to think in percentages on this. When I was last trading books, I got about 35% of the cover price as a trade in credit, or $3.50 for a $10 book. You had to spend as much cash as the credit when trading for a book. A $10 book was $3.50 credit and $3.50 cash. So each book would cost $3.50 cash and plus a percentage of what the first book cost (assuming all $10 books) Not that bad a deal, except that used bookstores started charging 90% in some cases for a book in good condition and/or offering less for trade-ins and would start refusing to take books that they were overstocked in even if you bought them there. So one would go to the store with 10 books, end up bringing 5 rejects back home and spending $4.50 a book for the ones you traded and $9.00 for the ones you bought. I got annoyed by the whole process and decided that the library had a better selection and I would save even more  Or I could treat myself to a shiny new book for a very few dollars more than I would have spent on used and not have to hunt through disorganized clutter to do so.
Of course for many the hunt is all the fun but it got so it wasn't for me.
Helen
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Agreed. I used to take books into a used bookstore, but it was not worth it. They really didn't want more books and the cheapest books were only half off cover price. So for a 7.99 paperback it was minimum 4 dollars. They paid anywhere from 10 cents a book to a few dollars. I sometimes took in 10 books just to "buy" one. I felt I'd get more out of it by giving them to the library. I stopped going. Then Amazon came along and I sold a bunch there for probably 2 years or so. Not worth it anymore. I buy a LOT of ebooks and I download a LOT of ebooks for free. Of course, I read 3 pages and discard many of them. I use the library a lot too, but I don't like that option as much because I don't like driving there. How lazy. Yes. Tis true. I excel at laziness!!!