recycling books
Chris
I am having a clearout and i have a load of books that are no longer wanted.
Is there any one place that would accept all books of all nature for reuse?
Cheers,
Chris
The Natural Philosopher
Paul
Phone them first to make sure.
PB
Sue W
> Is there any one place that would accept all books of all nature for reuse?
>
Oxfam, Sidney Street
Chris
Riiight.. is that "reuse" in thier current form, or recycled as in pulped up
and made into egg cartons? I'd prefer the former.. there is something a
little wrong about destroying books...
Cheers,
Chris
ke...@cam.ac.uk
Given the quantity of books I ought to be getting rid of, does aNyBoDy know
whether the contents of the book bank at Waitrose go straight to Oxfam?
Or does it go to a commercial organisation with a small donation to charity?
Katy
Tim Ward
news:hhnvs3$oqg$1...@cam-news1.cambridge.arm.com...
I'm sure Rhodri would take them off you - but I don't think he reads here
always and he's not brilliant at answering email and doesn't have a mobile
and is never at home to answer his landline so getting hold of him is
sometimes non-trivial.
The Natural Philosopher
Not in the days of digital archives..unless they are really NICE books
with calf leather bindings
Richard Kettlewell
> I am having a clearout and i have a load of books that are no longer
> wanted.
>
> Is there any one place that would accept all books of all nature for
> reuse?
Last time I wanted rid of some books I took them to Amnesty on Mill
Road.
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=503
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=10996
Fevric J. Glandules
> "Chris" <chris....@arm.no.spam.com> writes:
>> I am having a clearout and i have a load of books that are no longer
>> wanted.
>>
>> Is there any one place that would accept all books of all nature for
>> reuse?
>
> Last time I wanted rid of some books I took them to Amnesty on Mill
> Road.
Freecycle.org did for me. You get them collected that way. It's
perfectly okay to say that the recipient must take the whole box(es)
away with them - no cherry-picking.
Sarah Cooper
chris....@arm.no.spam.com (Chris) wrote:
Oxfam has speciality second hand bookshops. Their website has a "find a
bank page". <http://www.oxfam.org.uk/shops/content/shopfinder.php> There
are a few in Cambridge that collect books.
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Katie Jones
> "Chris" <chris.sty...@arm.no.spam.com> wrote in message
Rhodri? Care to elaborate?
Whatever
"Katie Jones" <ktj...@googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:7f6575c2-0672-4c38...@k23g2000yqa.googlegroups.com...
I imagine he likely means:
http://www.wildebst.demon.co.uk/
HTH etc
Al Grant
> Oxfam has speciality second hand bookshops.
But they don't accept "books of all nature". There was a
notice on one of their bins recently that said, in effect,
"please stop giving us unsaleable, car-boot-sale books
or we will have to withdraw the bins".
I assume they don't just mean books in poor condition,
but the kind of cheaply produced stuff, "100 cake recipes",
"Dog Breeds of the World" etc. that gets sold at discount
bookshops or through multi-level marketing schemes.
Thomas Womack
To the best of my knowledge (I have only tried three times and only
once in the middle of the day) Amnesty on Mill Road is no more; it may
be that a second-hand bookshop with a policy of not preemptively
pulping books that seem unlikely to sell can't survive with Mill Road
rents.
Tom
Richard Kettlewell
> Richard Kettlewell <r...@greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>>Last time I wanted rid of some books I took them to Amnesty on Mill
>>Road.
>>
>>http://www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=503
>>http://www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=10996
>
> To the best of my knowledge (I have only tried three times and only
> once in the middle of the day) Amnesty on Mill Road is no more; it may
> be that a second-hand bookshop with a policy of not preemptively
> pulping books that seem unlikely to sell can't survive with Mill Road
> rents.
They were open on December the 4th, at least.
RobertL
It's a difficult question and I wish I had a good answer. I had load
of books I wanted to 'rehome'. I didn't want them to go to a charity
shop who would select out the ones they knew they could sell and send
the rest for pulping. I sold most on amazon but it is very time-
consuming.
Robert
Simon Morris
They're definitely still open. I think they've recently been
re-organising their stock, so have sometimes been unexpectedly closed,
but it looks like they've finished, and are back to normal opening hours.
S.
Thomas Womack
RobertL <rober...@yahoo.com> wrote:
I have had no luck selling second-hand books on-line; 2.75 postage
compared to two pounds a book (one pound if you wait until Monday
afternoon) in Brian Ameringen's piles of books at any random
convention doesn't appeal.
And nowadays I compare it to the three-pound inter-library loan fee;
paying 25p extra and knowing that the library will take the book back
and ready it for another good home in three weeks seems a very good
deal. I've not bought a book since the Central Library reopened.
I donated some (Ken Macleod's _Cosmonaut Keep_ series in hardcover,
the first load of _No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency_) to a local library
when I lived in Cheltenham and the local library had discretion over
acquisitions; it was very nice to see them circulate, but the library
lost the discretion fairly quickly.
Tom
Marcus
> In article <c7cbdd7a-ca17-47d8...@v25g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>,
> RobertL <rober...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> On Jan 2, 5:30=A0pm, "Chris" <chris.sty...@arm.no.spam.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>
>>> I am having a clearout and i have a load of books that are no
>>> longer wanted.
>
>>> Is there any one place that would accept all books of all nature
>>> for reuse?
>
>> It's a difficult question and I wish I had a good answer. I had load
>> of books I wanted to 'rehome'. I didn't want them to go to a charity
>> shop who would select out the ones they knew they could sell and send
>> the rest for pulping. I sold most on amazon but it is very time-
>> consuming.
>
> I have had no luck selling second-hand books on-line; 2.75 postage
> compared to two pounds a book (one pound if you wait until Monday
> afternoon) in Brian Ameringen's piles of books at any random
> convention doesn't appeal.
>
Science Fiction Conventions. I know that if you spend all your leisure
time at conventions you never meet these people - but you probably will
bump into them in the street, especially if you have your head buried in
a book.
If there is one of these strange people here - Brian is a well known
second hand SF book dealer. While he does sell cheap paperbacks, he
actually makes most of his money trading higher value books, including
finding rare first editions for collectors.
Anyone who is looking for second hand SF books might want to look here:
http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/ though be warned this site has been
known to cause damage to your wallet.
Marcus
Sarah Cooper
8c4aec...@r5g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, alg...@myrealbox.com (Al
Grant) wrote:
new one on me
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Linda Fox
Yes, rather unreasonable, I'd have thought, since many people suppose
that what fires them up also fires loads of other people up, so that
they'll assume there's real re-saleability (is that a word?) in just
one out of The 39 Steps, Jade Goody As I Knew Her, History of Etruscan
Pottery and The Double Helix, since they wouldn't look twice at the
other three. Maybe the message on the bin is saying "if you're not the
sort of person who has a well-developed critical faculty when it comes
to book, we won't be wanting _yours_, thanks very much"
Linda ff
Sarah Cooper
lind...@ntlworld.com (Linda Fox) wrote:
well out of those there's only one I wouldn't want to read/have read
unless History of Etruscan Pottery and The Double Helix is one book
rather than two - looks jolly interesting :-)
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Andrew Haylett
I read today that some folk are buying s/h books very cheaply and using
them as fuel instead of coal. So perhaps the best way to judge value
is calorific content rather than literary merit. Apparently 5p for a
500g book stacks up well versus ?5 for a 20kg sack of coal.