Rehoming books

[alicebentley]

Twenty years ago, when we moved from Chicago to Vashon, we had too little time, and enough money, that instead of weeding our collection of books (and the remnants of the bookstore) we shipped everything here.
I estimate it was about 15,000 volumes.
In 2012 we were going through a rough patch, and just the thought of having to move with So Much Stuff was panic-inducing. So I started making runs to used book stores, getting tables at conventions where I priced everything to move move move ($1 each was common), and had probably dropped to about 4,000 or so books before I ran out of energy (and panic).
Nowadays we are much more likely to buy our new books as ebooks - and while there's a core of several hundred books I will likely always keep, I am ready to find new homes for much of what's here.

So I applied for a dealer table at Norwescon. It would be my first local outing since the pandemic started, but one gets fairly good distancing by staying behind a table, and I love the bookseller experience of connecting people with books.

But they turned me down.

Faced with listing them one by one on some For Sale site (bleh) I whined about this on FB, where some folks said they would be interested in seeing a list, and one local bookseller said he'd come take a look.

I'll get around to doing it, but that table would have been nice.

Comments

[minnehaha]

LOTS of my books have been dropped in the bathtub.

K. [this is because I fall asleep and they fall in]

[pameladean]

Many of mine had at one time; I have, oh, twenty or thirty with that telltale indented spine and huge spray of water-swollen pages. But I stopped taking baths at some point, going over to showers, and read where I didn't always have cold shoulders.

I don't think I've ever been relaxed enough in the bath to fall asleep unless I was ill. It sounds very nice.

P.

[minnehaha]

I can barely stay awake in the tub at all. And I never put so much water that there is danger of slipping under. Nor do I hold my phone in the tub.

K.

[alicebentley]

We only have a shower available here, so reading in the bath hasn't been an option.