Comments on: Weekly Project: Books, books, books!

By: Booktin

Booktin — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:51:20 +0000

I hoard!! I’m a hoarder though I have found out about these book swapping sites…it would be easier to just swap with your friends

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:20:10 +0000

For Home-Eccers in the central Illinois area, we have a great program here called books for prisoners. They have drop boxes all over my town, and they take any books you may have. Whatever they can’t donate to Illinois prison libraries, they sell to help with the costs of the organization. I’m getting ready to move, and every time I move (which is a lot) I always end up pledging to get rid of some of my collection while hauling box after box of books. This time I’m actually doing it and getting that nice feeling of helping out a great program at the same time!

By: Miss Genevieve

Miss Genevieve — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:07:26 +0000

I put all my books on http://www.swaptree.com . I LOVE it. With this site you get to pick from games, dvds, and cds as well as books. It’s great. I have even gotten birthday presents from there.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:51:20 +0000

Connie, we have a McKay in Nashville now, too.

“extra books” – what’s that? (asks the librarian…)

By: tink

tink — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:54:05 +0000

I’m a book-ho, I had thousands of them until last year,

Then I decluttered. The first bags were painful, then it felt goooood.

I took mine to the library as well. Living in South Podunk, we have a teeny library with a teeny budget. What doesn’t go on the shelves is sold at the yearly sale – then they buy more.

I also take videos, dvd’s and books on tape.

http://www.booksforsoldiers.com/ is another place you can donate.

Tax write off, it helps the community, and I have less to crud to dust and much more space in my home.

By: Karol

Karol — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:52:13 +0000

I also give mine to the library book store. It’s a great place to buy books, take them on vacation and leave them there!

By: noodle

noodle — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:32:30 +0000

Some get sold on half.com, some get traded at the local book traders, some get donated to the library. Most of the library donations end up in the library bookshop rather than on the shelves, but the profits are used to buy current books, so I figure it’s worth it.

By: Bramble

Bramble — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:53:15 +0000

extra..books?
That said, in the words of John Waters- If someone takes you home with them and they don’t have any books, don’t sleep with them!

By: themomhalf

themomhalf — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:17:15 +0000

Who has extra books? – she says as she sits in a house with 1000+ books? Shakes head in shame. — lol

We have a local used book store, or they go to the goodwill. Our local library doesn’t really take used books – they simply re-sell them in their second hand store — which is where I get most of my books. I’ve walked in and found whole sets of some of the American Girl series.

By: Connie

Connie — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:30:58 +0000

FYI since there are so many Home Ec readers in Tennessee… Chattanooga and Knoxville both have fab used book stores that will buy your used books.