Books: sell, donate, trash? Poll.

[badmouse]

I'm moving and I've got thousands (no exaggeration) of books. I've sold a bunch on ebay, made a little money, not tons. Haven't tried half.com yet, since I sell a lot on ebay. Just random books, the stuff that people acquire over the years.

Opinions wanted: what should I do with the things?

 

[jadinolf]

I vote for donate.

 

[ggavinmoss]

Do you have a list of them all? If so that would make it easier to sell them. If you don't want to go through the work of doing that, consider donating a portion of them and sell the rest.

-geoff

 

[EagleKeeper]

Set a timetable to sell what you can - anything left, give to the local library.

 

[lokiju]

I'd say sell if you can and donate what you can't/don't want to sell and use it as a tax write off.

Another place to sell would be Amazon.com they always have tons of used books for sale there.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

do you not have a Half Price Books in your area, they're all over the place in Dallas.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

You might try selling groups of them on a similar subject. For instance, you could take a filing box and put 35 paperback sci-fi books in it and sell it as a group.

 

[DaveSimmons]

If you have a list, post it or a link in FS/FT forum, set a low price, and set a 3 or 5-book minimum to make the time to package them worthwhile.

Libraries might take them as donations for their book sales. Or if there are Half_price Books stores in your area you could take in a few bags of books for store credit. Trashing the books would be a shame.

 

[dolph]

Originally posted by: blazert40
I'd say sell if you can and donate what you can't/don't want to sell and use it as a tax write off.

Another place to sell would be Amazon.com they always have tons of used books for sale there.

another vote

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Donate them to charity, an adult literacy program, or just haul them in to a used book store for credit, even if you don't plan to buy more. Just please, don't trash them.

 

[TwinkleToes77]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve
Donate them to charity, an adult literacy program, or just haul them in to a used book store for credit, even if you don't plan to buy more. Just please, don't trash them.

Agreed. Whatever you do dont trash them.

What kind of books are they for the most part...

 

[UCSDHappyAsian]

donate the books sound good to me. well i usually have a couple textbooks from each quarter, but i dont think its a good idea to donate them. first of all, its at least 100 dollars a piece, and i am very pissed off at my college that keeps on changing its textbooks with newer edition. guess wut, if you have a friend taking the same course last year already and would like to borrow his textbook, chances are the course required newer edition. As a matter of fact, you will need the newer edition since HW maybe assigned directly from the book. Although the entire book is different, the 99% of the material are exactly the same except in different order. Well, I really dont think that the newer edition was a necessary. Anyways, I rather sell it on ebay, and hopefully get a good portion of the money back. If I want to help the world and poors, I can donate some money. That's probably a little more helpful

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Trash them! Don't be a bleeding heart pansy liberal. After all, new books help the economy.

 

[TheBoyBlunder]

Donate them or sell them.

UCSDHappyAsian - that was really quite incoherent. Congratulations.

 

[FoBoT]

i would have picked "eat" if it hadn't been paired with results

good luck on that book thingy

 

[Ranger X]

Donate the really old ones and sell the textbooks and the newer books on Half.com.