"My library has a capacity of 100,000 volumes. We own
140,000. I recently
saved one copy of "Wild Wives" and threw out several crates
of books by
authors I'd never heard of."
Later Tom refers to the "trash truck" that picked up said
volumes.
Gawd, Tom! What forbids you from selling all those books to
people, like
Mark, who want to own the authors? I belong to a library
support group
that sells weeded cast-offs and donated books. We maintain
two shelves of
sale books in the library year-round, store the rest, and
mount one big
sale each year. Dimes and quarters (paper and hardback
prices) add up to
thousands we are able turn back to the library. Half the HB
books I own
were purchased this way.
Dismayed,
Bill Hagen
<billha@ionet.net>
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