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Ever since I received an ebook reader over the holidays, I vewanted to clear out as much of my physical library as I can toreplace it with digital editions. There are, of course, a ton of things I ll miss about traditionalbooks. But one thing I absolutely won t miss is how much room theytake up. Every time I move, I end up lugging around a dozen boxesfilled with heavy books that I m not likely to open up more thanonce a year.
Finding ebook versions of much of my library didn t take long. Infact, many of my books had entered the public domain and wereavailable for free from Project Gutenberg . What to do with all my physical books now that I no longer needthem has been a much more difficult problem to solve. Luckily, some great sites and tools helped me organize my libraryof 150 or so books in just a few hours, helped me sell the books Ino longer needed, and even helped me find places to donate thebooks I couldn t sell. [Read: BlackBerry Digitizer Replacement Your Analog Life ] What Stays and What Goes It can be complicated to sort out what to do with each of yourbooks.
Almost no one really wants to get rid of all of them. I havesigned copies and others that were given to me as gifts that Idon t want to part with for sentimental reasons. To add even morecomplication, you re unlikely to get the best price for all yourbooks if you sell them to only one bookseller. As a result, youhave to keep track of which books stay and which go, and wherethey re all going to. Delicious Library collection organizer You can't find a one-size-fits-all service that will let you easilyget rid of everything.
If you have more than a dozen or so books tosell, you will probably want to use some sort of organizationaltool to sort out what you plan to do with each title. I had almosta hundred that I wanted to lose, so I used a Google Docsspreadsheet to keep track of what was going where manually. If you ve got a larger collection, you might consider an organizerlike Delicious Library or MediaMan that lets you simply scan the barcode of each book to get itsinformation onto your computer. Note: Manually entering book titlesand editions into a spreadsheet or document can quickly gettedious.
Where to Sell Your Books Online Ideally you d like to make some cash from your little-used books,but dragging a large book collection around to local booksellers isa significant hassle. The easiest places to sell your books online are also where you dprobably go to buy them. Amazon s Sell Your Books program is mostly meant for textbooks, but does let you sell otherbooks. FYI: The few remaining textbooks I have from school ended upselling to Amazon for more than all my other books combined.
Sell Your Books was easy to use, and I managed to get Amazon toaccept about half of the books I owned. (Note: If a paperbackedition of your hardback book is out, you re usually out of luckon selling the hardback.) The prices on Amazon s service were alsocomparable to, or slightly better than, those I found on otherservices. Half.com also has a buyback program that focuses on textbooks. Their pricesfor my books were similar to Amazon's, and the site said it wouldaccept a wider selection of my books. If you want a quick and dirty way to figure out where to sell yourbooks online, it s probably easiest to go with an aggregator sitethat pulls from multiple book buyers like BigWords or DealOz.
Book sale aggregation site Bigwords.com I used BigWords, which pulls pricing data from a dozen or soretailers. The service also lets you enter multiple ISBN numbers sothat you can check prices for multiple books in one search. Before using an untested book buyer, though, check out thedetails--you might end up paying more for shipping than you makefrom its higher listed price. Amazon will pay for you to ship your books to it, and Half.comoffers a significant reimbursement that should cover the cost ofshipping for most books.
However, smaller operations may not havethe same policy. Either way, don t expect to make a huge sum off of your bookcollection. Depending on what you have in your library, you llprobably make enough to offset the cost of replacing the paperversions with ebooks. But unless you ve got some rare firsteditions lying around, you're unlikely to make a hefty profit.
What to Do if You Can t Sell Your Books Even with a site like BigWords, some of your books just aren tgoing to be worth the effort to sell online. If they re still inrelatively good condition, however, you can always donate them.It s probably still easier for most people to donate books totheir local library, or to Goodwill, the Salvation Army, or otherlocal charities. The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction has put together ahandy list of library agency websites nationwide if you need to know where to go to donate locally. Ifthe list doesn t have a nearby option for you, and you thinkyou ll have trouble finding a convenient place to donate, severalcharities accept book donations by mail.
These include Books For Soldiers , Books for Africa , and Better World Books --all great options. But remember that these charities don t payfor shipping books to them, so it is definitely cheaper for you todonate to a local nonprofit. Still, if you like the charity orcause, supporting it is probably more than worth the cost ofshipping it the books.
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