The fate of the used books...

[tuftears]

So you may remember that I'd posted about separating out duplicate books, and books I was no longer interested in rereading from my collection, some time ago. All told, it amounted to eight completely filled "U-Haul" small boxes of books.

I took them in to Book Buyers a couple weekend ago. It took them a while to process the books.

What did I get for the books?... $132 in store credit, no cash back.



Yeah, this is how far $132 goes in store credit.

Honestly I think it's a reasonable exchange. I wasn't going to get cash back, the books I sold them were mostly duplicates (the results of consolidating collections between myself and my brothers), and these will go a long way toward filling in gaps in my collection. I had some trilogies missing the first book, for instance... Who wants to reread a trilogy in the middle?

There's still quite a number of books in my list of books to find that I wasn't able to find at Bookbuyers, but I knocked off over half the list.

Comments

[archangelbeth]

Yay! New books and freed-up bank slots!

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

What I really want is some program that recognizes I have the books and gives me the ebook version for free. };)

[archangelbeth]

Amen!

[rowyn]

So ... 8 books traded-in = 1 used book acquired? Back when I traded/bought used books, I think it was more like 2-4 for 1, but hey, take what you can get. :)

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

I think it's a little worse a ratio than that, but yeah, no sense complaining about it-- I got stuff I wanted for stuff I didn't want!