Used Book Buyers

[rainbowbride617.livejournal.com]

Hi everyone! I'm looking for some advice for a place in the greater Boston area (the closer to Davis, the better) that buys used books. I've got bags and bags sitting here that need a good home. I love to sell them to a book store where I know they will get a good home. I've got a ton of hardcover fiction and non-fiction. Help is appreciated!

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[ayelle.livejournal.com]

This is what I've been doing, since all of the bookstores people have mentioned above have refused to take 95% of my books. And we're talking hundreds (slowly, of course, over time!), a fairly eclectic collection. Books are so expensive and yet trying to get rid of them is ridiculous; you can hardly give them away. Except to Goodwill.

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

Actually, since I was getting rid of so many books, I guess I can say more about my experiences.

First of all, almost nobody would take my hardcover books. Not one of the used bookstores I went to took anything (including Macintyre & Moore). The exception was libraries. I donated a bunch of "like new" hardbacks to Hurricane Katrina relief. However, there's a very specific type of book they can take -- often replacements for things that they already had in their collections, so they already have catalog information. The libraries down there mostly just literally have no place to put all the random donated books and no manpower to spare to sort through them (a massive job).

At the Brookline Booksmith (their Used Book Cellar was the only place that took a decent number of my adult fiction paperbacks, and the only money I saw from the hundreds of books I purged), I picked up a flyer for a charity place that will come to your door and take your books away from you. I don't have the flyer any more, but I bet they still have them at the store. You still don't get anything anything out of it, and I recall they won't take everything -- but you don't have to lug them anywhere, which is wonderful.

And Rosie's Place is always looking for children's books. (I know you don't have these, I'm just writing sort of generally now.) Getting there is a pain, but you can visit the Children's Book Shop in Brookline and drop them off there, which I found to be much easier.

[ron_newman]

Is this the charity place on that flyer?

Community Book Solutions, now renamed to Got Books?

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

Yes!