If there is anything that is true, it is that the Terrills, as in Harry and Barbara, have an inordinate number of books. The book shelves in our house are filled to overflowing - the overflow resides in the infamous "room in the garage" that was originally built for food storage. Dad has been determined for many years to restore it to being a food storage room. With his new calling as Ward Emergency Preparedness specialist, he feels driven anew to get it in order.
So for FHE tonight, we started going through the books in the room in the garage. Dad said, "Let's just do one shelf. It will be a start." It kind of works like when you give a mouse a cookie though, so we ended up going through several shelves.
Found some old college textbooks - any claimants?
Decided that we definitely need a coffee table (I have been in favor and have been lobbying for same for many years) to display our lovely collection of "coffee table books!" Dad may be humoring me, but I plan to pursue this avenue of interior decoration!!
Dad came across a book we bought in Cochabamba 3 years ago - a history of the church in Bolivia - he definitely got side-tracked!!
Books, books, books - I have always loved them - can't seem to get into the electronic version. And have definitely not kept my new year's resolve to not buy any new books this year!!
(Dad is into his electronic collection - and was much more willing to let go of books I've been trying to jettison for over 35 years!!)
4 comments:
I have made the same resolution not to buy new books until I have read what I already have. That resolution usually lasts until I go to a bookstore. Books are my favorite thing.
I think the Heath anthology is mine. I can pick it up this summer.
Barbara, if you want some motivation to clean out your book shelf, you should do this.
1) sign up for a seller account on amazon
2) pay the one-time pro fee of $40
3) list all of the books you have on amazon
4) manage the price of your inventory, sell and ship them as they are purchased (this can be done with one click from amazon's site--print address label with postage, tape paper to the front of the package.
5) then just every morning, spend some time processing your orders--usually just a couple of clicks.
6) i use old grocery bags as packaging plus some clear packing tape.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=1161234
When you go to list inventory, you can just type in the ISBN. Or you can use this on harry's iphone:
http://www.ismashphone.com/2009/05/red-laser-the-first-accurate-iphone-barcode-scanner-hits-the-app-store.html
Anyway, I bet you have ~$3,000+ of sellable books in your library. Rather than looking at your books as something you have to look through, you can make a little extra money off it.
If you can't be bothered doing stuff like that, maybe go through your books and pull out all the ones you are willing to get rid of. Then have Ara and Ella come over one weekend and set everything up for you. Then they could take the books back with them to Malibu and send them off one at a time as they get purchased. it could be a summer job and a good way to earn $1,000 or so over the summer basically working less than an hour a day.
A few years ago I proposed doing that to Noah and he did some investigating and claimed that the books were currently at a very low market value. But maybe it's worth a shot again. Harry P. is excited about the idea too - maybe a new "cottage industry" will be born here!!
(How have you made out with it so far??)
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