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VirtualLarry

VirtualLarry

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nakedfrog said:
seems like an awful lot to be declaring print officially dead, you know?
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I guess I should specify, I was mostly thinking of daily/weekly/monthly periodicals.

Edit: "print" (media), not all print (publications).
 
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Charmonium

Charmonium

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I logged into their site yesterday after reading this just to see what condition their condition was in. They have a very full website. I was looking at the humor section for something to shitpost and it was some pretty tame stuff - white bread humor one might say.

In principle, I think it's a valuable service though. I think most periodical articles can be effectively boiled down to their essence without losing a lot of meaning. So if your objective is to have your finger on the pulse of the populace, it's probably something you want to have on hand.
 
Torn Mind

Torn Mind

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nakedfrog said:
767 million print books sold in the US last year seems like an awful lot to be declaring print officially dead, you know?

www.statista.com

Book sales by year: print books in the U.S. 2024| Statista

Book sales over the years in the U.S.: is print dead or are physical book sales on the up? Find the latest print book sales statistics here.
www.statista.com www.statista.com
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The used book market is a dumpster fire. I donate a box, the local store offers 1 dollar cash or 5 dollars credit in the store. I'm glad people still donate. I got rewarded with a 1st edition version of Einstein's bio of Mozart.
 
nakedfrog

nakedfrog

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Torn Mind said:
The used book market is a dumpster fire. I donate a box, the local store offers 1 dollar cash or 5 dollars credit in the store. I'm glad people still donate. I got rewarded with a 1st edition version of Einstein's bio of Mozart.
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Are you donating the books or selling them? Complaining about the value you get out of them implies "selling". If you're just bringing in a box of random paperbacks, I can certainly see them giving you minimal trade value, as they've got to inventory them, price them, and store them until they finally sell for a few bucks. If you thought you had anything of value, you'd probably be trying to sell it directly yourself, this sounds like a transaction of convenience.
 
Torn Mind

Torn Mind

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nakedfrog said:
Are you donating the books or selling them? Complaining about the value you get out of them implies "selling". If you're just bringing in a box of random paperbacks, I can certainly see them giving you minimal trade value, as they've got to inventory them, price them, and store them until they finally sell for a few bucks. If you thought you had anything of value, you'd probably be trying to sell it directly yourself, this sounds like a transaction of convenience.
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I'm donating dumpster dives. I don't have the time to sell and it's tough to compete with the companies that can sell the books at lower prices anyway.

Some of the books found in the dumpster dives are too interesting at the moment to donate, like cookbooks.
 
nakedfrog

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Torn Mind said:
I'm donating dumpster dives. I don't have the time to sell and it's tough to compete with the companies that can sell the books at lower prices anyway.

Some of the books found in the dumpster dives are too interesting at the moment to donate, like cookbooks.
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You're... taking books that were thrown away, and kvetching about the value you get for "donating" (hint: that means "to give away") them to a used book store?

"Man, these dumpster books are worthless, the used book market is a dumpster fire!"
Mmmmkay.
 
Torn Mind

Torn Mind

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VirtualLarry said:
Landlord turned lawyer, and cookbook grifter. Who would have known.
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My mom did the diving. I am stuck cleaning out the mess.

Gritter means benefiting off someone else. Trash is benefiting no one and indicates abandonment of possession

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Torn Mind

Torn Mind

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nakedfrog said:
You're... taking books that were thrown away, and kvetching about the value you get for "donating" (hint: that means "to give away") them to a used book store?

"Man, these dumpster books are worthless, the used book market is a dumpster fire!"
Mmmmkay.
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One, the opportunity of utilizing leisure time on organizing trash is about min wage or more. I essentially chose to forego 15.65 dollars an hour to save...books so that someone interested can get copy from a store for 6-7 dollars. And most of the haul is actually giveaway or back to the trash can, because the store doesn't take ex-library books. It just so happens that there are someone non library books being dumped into the same waste stream.

It is a bit of a contradiction...how knowledge costs money but the supply of stores of knowledge are in such enormous excess that they are being thrown away.

Merely stating facts is not complaining. I just wanted the store credit to get a Mozart book by essentially bartering.
 
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