I must say that I am very
grateful for the donations of the last two book collections to our Discovery
Shop. The nautical books now have over
powered their little bookcase. At least
I have all ours out now. Two boxes of
the higher priced volumes now go north to go online.
At the start of the week
another collection arrived, this time of Aeronautical books. I cleared one book area for these and rushed to
price the less valuable volumes. I took
two boxes home to price….and up two flights of stairs. Yes, George is a dear. No, the books didn’t fill their shelves.
There were volumes in the
200 to 300 dollar range for the nautical books.
One on Dry Docks at 11,000.00, yes.
This latest batch wasn't worth a fraction, but there were still some fascinating
books. I bought one.
I can’t thank my friend
Katy enough for her book searching lessons.
She turned me on to ABE Books.
From there I discovered more search engines landing finally on
Bookfinder.com. They search all the book
sites for you. It did well with the ship
books finding all but four on the various
search engines. Bookfinder, and all the
others, were a failure when it came to planes.
Life is never boring when
you volunteer.
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- Himself: Work slowed down over the week, still he looked tired by last night.
- Herself: Slept like a rock. Did pretty well hauling wagon loads of books. Bending over straight works, bending over in a curve doesn’t work. Later today, I am going to switch these few books into the smaller bookcase and bring the ship books over here.
- Reading: Mrs. Polifax on Safari.
- Watching: Longmire who won his case in this latest episode. Longmire TV is so much darker than the books.
- Gratitude’s: That I reintroduced dairy and it is working.
You've been given some great collections.
ReplyDeleteYes, we sure have.
DeleteI would be in big trouble with all the bending, straight or round. Well done.
ReplyDeleteI shouldn't bend, so most of what I do is done sitting. :)
DeleteYou have lots of energy Mage. Well done!
ReplyDeleteI seem to be able to bend when moving through garden beds and then getting down on the garden stool when needed. I cannot stand in one place and bend for any length of time, so no surprise at your agony. Bookfinder helps you determine costs?
ReplyDeleteBookfinder finds the books, and it gets you to the sites that have copies. The sites price them. I usually pick a third of a middle price. They seem to be selling now on ebay, and the ones here are a mess every time I come in. :)
DeleteYou definitely have the book pricing "covered".
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