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My dad left me several thousand books. Mostly about airplanes and warfare.

• elevation 8mo ago
  If you have a library that you want to keep out of the landfill, your job is not storing them, but convincing another human being (who's younger than you) that the books are of value. If no one you know has ever borrowed or expressed interest in them, then the shelf you relegate them to is as good as the landfill.
  • WalterBright 8mo ago
    I keep the ones I want and sell the rest to used bookstores or give them to the thrift stores. I tried selling some on Amazon. That doesn't work at all.
    • rrr_oh_man 8mo ago
      ...do you still have any?
      • WalterBright 8mo ago
        only ones I want to keep
    • rationalist 8mo ago
      As a buyer, I find buying used books on eBay much better than buying used books on Amazon.
      • WalterBright 8mo ago
        I find the prices + shipping about the same. Where ebay gets ahead is buying a box of books, rather than individual books.