Mixed Feelings

[flemmings]

No one has Brusts, as I said, except for various volumes of Paarfi. Don't ask me why-- there's always a copy of 500 Years After or The Phoenix Guard or Sethra Lavode in any used bookstore. But for a wonder, Eliot's Books had both Yendi and Teckla, thereby saving me 24-7=17 dollars for the compendium.

Eliot's Books also had a number of familiar-looking volumes, and two which clinched it: The Japan We Never Knew, by David Suzuki and Keibo Oiwa, and Japanese Inn by Oliver Statler. Those were mine, put out on the front lawn library some weeks ago and last weekend respectively. So now I know.

And occurs to me, if people are going to flog my books at Eliot's, why shouldn't I do the same and get the benefit of it?

Comments

[incandescens]

Sounds perfectly reasonable. Donating to charity is one thing, but having other people just use your kindness to make money out of the books... well, why shouldn't you get the benefit, as you say?

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

There are legit 'borrowers', of course. They're the ones who don't take the whole box. Then again, maybe the book mongers are like the people who take one's empty wine/ alcohol bottles for the deposit-- rather a sad way to scrape a living.

(Explanatory note: We're supposed to return bottles ourselves. People leave them in the recycle bins by their house, where they're not supposed to go, for the scavengers to find. I leave mine on the lawn for easy pickup, since my recycle is in the back yard.)

[incandescens]

I suppose you could at least ask at that bookshop what their buying terms are, so you know what you'd be missing out on if you leave the books on the lawn...