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selling old books

  • 22-10-2014 1:51pm
    #1
    dunne.brennan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2 ✭


    I have approx 250 books I want to get rid of. Any1 know if I can sell them to recycling?


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  • #2
    Paulownia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 590 ✭✭✭Paulownia


    what kind of books? Sell them to a bookshop!


  • #3
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Local library might be interested.


  • #4
    dunne.brennan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2 ✭dunne.brennan


    Paulownia wrote: »
    what kind of books? Sell them to a bookshop!

    All kinds..horse books..war books...gardening books. New house and all has to be cleared. Was looking for one of those clothes banks that buys books also


  • #5
    Paulownia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 590 ✭✭✭Paulownia


    there is a bookshop in UCD and they have tables outside the door selling secondhand books so presumably they buy them there. They have a great selection there sometimes and they are cheap as chips


  • #6
    Judgement Day
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    Bring them to a charity shop - libraries don't take books.


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  • #7
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,702 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    Unless they are rare editions, you haven't much hope of selling them to anyone. Most charity shops dedicate a limited amount of shelf space for books - some don't do books at all so they're probably refusing offers (of sackloads of old books) all the time. There used to be a secondhand bookshop on the main street in Dun Laoghaire and a feature of the place was the boxes on the floor full of recently donated books yet to be classified and shelved, a symptom of oversupply. It closed a while back.


  • #8
    Paulownia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 590 ✭✭✭Paulownia


    I was sad to see the the shop in dunlaoghaire was closed and the one in dalkey is gone too


  • #9
    Judgement Day
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    Charity shops (unintentionally) and the internet have done woeful damage to the secondhand book trade but there are some survivors:

    http://collectireland.com/books/ :)


  • #10
    Paulownia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 590 ✭✭✭Paulownia


    I never pass a charity shop but the selection of books in them is usually disappointingly banale. The UCD campus one is quite good and there is one in Glasthule as well


  • #11
    Paulownia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 590 ✭✭✭Paulownia


    Judgement Day wrote: »
    Charity shops (unintentionally) and the internet have done woeful damage to the secondhand book trade but there are some survivors:

    http://collectireland.com/books/ :)

    Thats a brilliant website I'd never heard of before


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