Second hand books

That is one thing i don't like about my city, there aren't any decent second hand or new book shops!! Its like i am the only person here who loves to read. Honestly it is annoying but then again what can i do? lol But when i go out to other cities, i do look for second hand book shops and spend my money there. I still have all my used books at home and plans to sell some but just online.

No I haven't. I wait for the bookstores to put books out for free to get, or even the libraries that sell books. I wait until the last day and go in and get the bag deal, much better. When we are done we just give ours away anways.

The biggest issue is that their are so many books out there many times a lot of the places out their will usually only buy books they do not already have, or from authors everyone wants. I have taken some of mine from time to time to a place or two, and it is a hard sell. But latelymost people I know do more of their reading online or from a nook, kindle fire, etc.

I haven't looked for a second hand bookshop around here. I know there was one in a nearby city , but they went to yard sales, estates, auctions and thrift stores to purchase their own selection. I tried shopping at the Savation Army, but if it wasn't tagged, you were supposed to pay a percentage of the cover price! At that price point, I'll go to B&N! I shop for used books at Goodwill, yard sales or library sales!

I think there are some book libraries who buy old books, but I am not sure how much they pay. Also, it depends on the books. I think story books can be sold. Certain educational books also can be sold. But if the books are very very old, then nobody may buy those. The books have at least to be in a good condition.

I'm not really sure whether there are bookshops in our area that buys second-hand books. All I know are book sales shops that sells used books but I'm not sure whether they buy one. What I do is I just sell used books in our school because the university has a program called "buy back books" where they sell the books at a cheaper price so I take advantage of that. Aside from this, I just donate the books instead of throwing them away.

Yes, I know, "second hand books" are like dirty words and nobody wants to have anything to do with them. I tried to sell many when I was getting ready to leave the country and I sold a few, but the rest I had to put in big boxes and gave them as charity. It is a pity though, as some of those books were very good, only not new.

Secondhand bookstores are unpopular and almost nonexistent here. Good books will usually be kept and passed down from generations. Even this practice is already becoming less since everything is going digital and online. For us, the old books are usually sold by the weight to recycle collections or schools in the outskirt districts. Other than that, they are usually thrown away.

There are stores in all the larger cities that buy books back at a small percentage of the price they originally cost. I don't believe they take any non-fiction books, though. Since I live in the suburbs, it isn't worth my time to cart my books to the city, so I give them to one of the local charity thrift stores. Our city library also accepts donated used books and sells them in their thrift book store.

There aren't any bookstores new or used where I live. But when I did live near some they either would give store credit or pay very little. I have had luck selling used books on Ebay, but then again it depends on the author, title, and condition. It is sad that people are losing interest in books. I love books, I got an ereader one year for my birthday, and I have a few books on it, but for some reason I enjoy holding and turning the pages of a real book. I guess I'm old fashioned.

Along the university belt in Manila, there are a lot of second hand books being sold along the sidewalk. When I was still in College, I have also bought some of my books there. But now, with all the books that has accumulated, I just give them out to kids for free.

do you really gain from this type of work, i tried it but nothing happen, I hope if there is good income i like books but i stoped buying thme long time a ago becuae have no idea what people will like, its hard to ivest on them then lose your money

Before,I usually received an old books from the family where my aunt was working with. That family only read the book once and when they read it once, they will set aside the books already and not so useful with them anymore and they give it to my aunt for us and it helped a lot in our studies. Yes it did and I thank them I was not spending money just to buy a book.

Sadly the market for printed books is on the decline whether used or new. Many bookshops are closing down, yes second hand bookshops are surviving better as their shop space tend to be smaller and since used books are cheaper there are still more people going to them. Due to space I don't really buy books but second hand bookstores also provide rental service which is useful.

I used to work at a second-hand bookshop and there are certain categories of books which I know will never sell, so it is really not worth buying them. In the past, many booksellers would make an offer for a 'lot' - in other words, they would understand that the seller wanted to get rid of the books and they would calculate a price based on the items they knew they could sell and take the 'rubbish' as well, knowing that it would eventually have to be sent as waste paper. These days, with the cost of premises and overheads being high, second-hand booksellers have to be a lot more careful about limiting their stock to what they know there is a market for. Second-hand bookselling is a high stock level/low turnover market and much less profitable than many customers think. Someone selling a collection of books to a bookseller may be surprised and annoyed to see a book they sold apparently on the shelf at twice the price (or more) that the bookseller bought it for but they do not appreciate that, perhaps, three quarters of the books they brought in will not sell at all (and, these days, a bookseller may actually have to pay a recycling company to collect sacks of waste paper) while the books which do have a market may stay on the shelves for six months to a year (or longer) before they are sold. Turnover and profit are of increasing importance in today's world and more and more people are buying books online. Many second-hand booksellers can no longer afford the rents in town centres and have either closed down entirely or moved their stock to less expensive premises and make most of their sales online or at book fairs, car boot sales or market stalls.

Many second hand books are found for sale on Amazon.co.UK. Some cost 1 pence and others more money. I think that the postage is steep. It is around 2 pounds 80 pence for postage. In Rye in the 1980s and 1990s I visited second hand book shops in Rye and in some places in Kent. There is an charity second hand book shop in my local town. I am more likely to buy e books for my kindle. My bookcase is full. Last week I bought a new book on gardens in a book sale. It cost two pounds and fifty pence. I send used books to a charity shop.

Hi yes there are some second hand book shops here and i prefer to buy books from those shops. I never sold any books so far as all my books are kept well in the shelf/cupboard .I dont see any necessity to sell them as of now. May be in future I will think of it. i even heard that we can sell the books online but never tried it.

There are lots of used and second-hand bookshops in Toronto and I sold almost 300 books some years back. I sold the entire collection of Agatha Christie mysteries with the Detective Hercule Poirot, and since then have sold very few of my books. There was a time I had more than 500 or 600 books and then I saw how crazy my living space was getting and I started to give them away as I was moving to New Jersey and would have no place for them or place to buy new books. I gave away some priceless titles.

here in our place second hand books are still sale-able since not all afford to buy new books there's a China town that buys old book and sell it to student

I have never tried selling old books before but it would be a good idea if there is a bookstore who would do that. I have heard that in some part of our city there are second hand books on sale and they also accepted buying used books. I have a lot of books which are stacked for so long and I do not know what to do with them. I had given away some but there are still left in my shelves.