Books, books, books!
Saturday, March 29th, 2008 10:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
evila_elfYesterday, while at the library, I heard coworker mention a booksale at our mall to a patron. Our mall is crap, btw. It has 3 Sears branch stores, shoe store and....something else. But it is also where the new 10 screen theater is going, so YAY!
Anyway, as soon as I finished shelving my cart, I popped over. "Did someone say booksale?"
Every year or so, there is a large books sale of donated book and ex-library books. And on the last day of the sale, at 3, they have all the books for 1 buck a bag.
So I got there about 20 to 3 (was in town with dad, and he dropped me off to do a few other things while I drooled away over the books). 10 to 3, they handed out these paper grocery sacks. Okay, it was nuts with the flock of people everywhere. I was mainly grabbing a bunch of books for Mom (romance, ick) and a few odds and ends for me to toss up online. Filled one bag and was scooting it along the floor (guarding protectively), waiting for Dad to get back as I partially filled another. I should have grabbed a cart from Sears, but oh, well. Once Dad showed up, I asked him if he wanted to poke around nonfiction to see if he wanted anything. He took one look at the crowd and was. "O.O no" so we went up to pay. 2 bucks for 64 books :D
Looking at the fiction tables on the way out, and there were only little stacks of messed up books left. And a few random book pages o.o;;
When I got them home, I resorted out the romances for Mom, and the rest for me.
I joined this one site a month or two ago, and am loving it. www.paperbackswap.com You mail your books that you don't want to someone, and when they get it, you get a credit that you can 'spend' on a book of your own choice. Great way to get rid of things you no longer want. All you pay is shipping. And when you print out the mailing addy for the person to send your book to, that doubles as a mailing wrapper for normal sized paperbacks :D
They have two sister sites, www.swapadvd.com and www.swapacd.com that I have used a lot as well. And the credits can be swapped between sites. You can also buy credits...4.95 for DVDs and 3.95 for books. Which is still way cheaper than buying new, esp for dvds. Anywho, go check them out :D You get 2 free book credits when you post 10 books, and 1 free DVD/CD for posting 10 DVDs/CDs
And, if you join, please list me (amyflug at gmail dot com) as a referrer? :D
3 of the books I am keeping until I get a chance to read them, and 1 I can't trade because it is an advanced copy.
Sooo, that was my big excitement for the day.
Anyway, as soon as I finished shelving my cart, I popped over. "Did someone say booksale?"
Every year or so, there is a large books sale of donated book and ex-library books. And on the last day of the sale, at 3, they have all the books for 1 buck a bag.
So I got there about 20 to 3 (was in town with dad, and he dropped me off to do a few other things while I drooled away over the books). 10 to 3, they handed out these paper grocery sacks. Okay, it was nuts with the flock of people everywhere. I was mainly grabbing a bunch of books for Mom (romance, ick) and a few odds and ends for me to toss up online. Filled one bag and was scooting it along the floor (guarding protectively), waiting for Dad to get back as I partially filled another. I should have grabbed a cart from Sears, but oh, well. Once Dad showed up, I asked him if he wanted to poke around nonfiction to see if he wanted anything. He took one look at the crowd and was. "O.O no" so we went up to pay. 2 bucks for 64 books :D
Looking at the fiction tables on the way out, and there were only little stacks of messed up books left. And a few random book pages o.o;;
When I got them home, I resorted out the romances for Mom, and the rest for me.
I joined this one site a month or two ago, and am loving it. www.paperbackswap.com You mail your books that you don't want to someone, and when they get it, you get a credit that you can 'spend' on a book of your own choice. Great way to get rid of things you no longer want. All you pay is shipping. And when you print out the mailing addy for the person to send your book to, that doubles as a mailing wrapper for normal sized paperbacks :D
They have two sister sites, www.swapadvd.com and www.swapacd.com that I have used a lot as well. And the credits can be swapped between sites. You can also buy credits...4.95 for DVDs and 3.95 for books. Which is still way cheaper than buying new, esp for dvds. Anywho, go check them out :D You get 2 free book credits when you post 10 books, and 1 free DVD/CD for posting 10 DVDs/CDs
And, if you join, please list me (amyflug at gmail dot com) as a referrer? :D
3 of the books I am keeping until I get a chance to read them, and 1 I can't trade because it is an advanced copy.
Sooo, that was my big excitement for the day.
