Talk of The Villages Florida - View Single Post - What to do with all those books?
View Single Post
 
Old 08-17-2011, 03:37 PM
swrinfla swrinfla is offline
Platinum member
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 1,778
Thanks: 0
Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts
Default

Yorio:

If there's a fund-raising book fair or similar activity in your area, consider donating your library to them. I packed up 15-20 boxes of my late wife's collection for the same book fair at which she'd bought most of them (usually at less than 50 cents a book), and they were thrilled.

I kept only those which appealed to me.

I admit, though, to saving the National Geographic despite knowing that it is one of the hardest magazines to pass on to someone/something else!

I recall when the advertising agency for which I worked back in the
mid-1960's wanted to get rid of some 30 years worth of NG when moving to new office quarters, we managed to find a small community ("junior") college which took them, gleefully.

Had my late wife been alive to move to TV with me, I know that we'd have brought all the books along with us!

SWR
__________________
Missouri-Massachusetts-Connecticut-Maine-Missouri-Texas-Missouri-Florida