Dilemma

[ledonya]

I have a large quantity of fantasy books which I need to either sell or donate. Does anyone know how best to do this? I would really like them to go to a good home.

[The Judge]

Can't help you beyond the obvious, ie selling on ebay or giving them to a charity shop. I know that the local National Trust house near us has a room which takes second-hand books, and volunteers run one alongside the cathedral in Winchester. Perhaps you could google second-hand books and see what comes up.

In case you were thinking about it, though, I should make it clear we can't allow selling here on the Chrons, nor any preludes to selling such as listing the books.

I hope you manage to find good homes for them somewhere, though.

[ledonya]

Thanks for the response. Of course, I did not mean to imply I wanted to sell them on here.

[mosaix]

Originally Posted by ledonya

I have a large quantity of fantasy books which I need to either sell or donate. Does anyone know how best to do this? I would really like them to go to a good home.

In my home town the library has twice yearly discarded book sales and they are willing to take donations from the public. The books go to a good home and the money goes to the library. Two birds with one stone, so-to-speak.

The books that they don't manage to sell either go to a local second hand book shop (bought in bulk by weight) or to scrap paper merchants, again sold by weight. Either way the money goes to local library funds.

[Abernovo]

Hospitals and hospices also sometimes take books. Long term patients need something to occupy them.

Retirement homes as well, for the same reason.

[Montero]

Brainstorming here.

No idea if they'd be interested, perhaps the science fiction foundation would want them? (http://www.sf-foundation.org/)
(And would sell the ones they don't want.)

Ask the British Fantasy Society - if they have a member near where you live maybe they'd like to collect and sell them in aid of BFS at next Fantasycon.

[Finnien]

I've donated to junior high and high school libraries before.

[ledonya]

Thanks for the responses,