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I'm currently reading a "real" book, Michael Connelly's latest novel, The Dark Side of Goodbye. I took the physical book out of the library only because, in renovating its website, the library lost all of my "recommended" books. The typeface is so teeny-tiny, I am thinking of buying the Kindle book, as I find myself speed-reading to get through the "real" book. My eyes just don't see as well as they once did.
I love to read real books not kindle. But I do not have the desire to own them. The library is my friend and meets (most of) my needs.
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Originally Posted by PinkString
I was doing that for awhile, not buying anymore books from the thrift store, yard sales etc, and rarely would buy brand new books. Checking them out from the library. But I don't know if everyone eats while reading or what. I kept finding smears of mustard on the pages, coffee spills, crumbs of different things, other weird food related things, watered down pages, dead bugs, underlined paragraphs, highlighted sentences, and too many bent pages! I hate bent pages. I inserted little notes in the books to use a bookmark. Those kinds of things are a big turnoff. I would report the wanton destruction of their books to them when I returned them, and they just put them back on the shelves.
Even worse for me is the smell of past readers' hand lotion. Some library books end up so perfumey, I give up on them by page 30. Kindle saves me from having to deal with that.
It is hard to sell used books. You might do better at a used bookstore. That's why many people donate their books to local books sales or to the Goodwill, or to a library book sale. You can take a tax write off for doing so.
Used book sales are advertised online to people who like used books, and if the sale is big enough, it can draw lots of customers. But sales of books in garages or yards will not draw the same number of avid readers that a large used book sale draws.
Books purchased through a book club will not hold the same value as original edition books.
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