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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on July 16, 2015, 11:19:11 AM
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hedgehog (35,082 posts) Tue Jul 14, 2015, 02:50 PM
What to do with an inherited library?
My Dad is downsizing and I have his very extensive library - we're talking 200-300 books, easily. Now some of these are out-of-date, but the bulk are solid history, philosophy and classics. We had a cousin interested in Civil War history, so he got that part of the collection. But how do I get the rest into good hands? I'm willing to give them away, but I doubt our local library would take them.
Question.
Since when are 200-300 books an "extensive library"?
Geezuz gawd, franksolich has more than 200-300 books, all of them hardcover, no cheap paperbacks, against only one single wall of the living room--not to mention many more scattered throughout the house.
I'd hesitate to call what I have a "library," much less an "extensive" one.
I dunno how many books my father managed to acquire in his lifetime; I've written about it before, but it's too damned hot and humid to write about it again. At the time of his death, they were approaching 4,000--all hardcover, about two-thirds of them slipcased--but being pretty young and shallow at the time, I didn't pay attention.
<<<grew up in two houses (although not at the same time), where even the hallways had floor-to-ceiling built-in bookshelves.
That, I'd call a "library," but not necessarily an "extensive" one.
There's a lot of primitive comments at this thread, but this lie in particular stands out:
csziggy (18,422 posts) Tue Jul 14, 2015, 11:45 PM
20. That's the rub - my sister volunteers at her library
With their "Friends of the Library" - most of the donated books never get close to the shelves. They try to sell the ones the library doesn't keep but these days they make more money with the ones they throw away since my sister hooked them up with a recycling company that pays for paper by the ton.
A lot of what is donated are romance novels and they go straight into the dumpster along with right wing political stuff. She's found some thing that should be of interest to local historical groups - such as a history of the Bronx zoo from years ago - but she hasn't found where to place those even when the relevant organizations don't already have copies.
She pulls out and pays for books she thinks friends and family might want. I get science fiction anthologies and needlework books with a few mysteries thrown in. Mom gets Florida history and books about the Great Depression, and so on.
I like the suggestion of an online used book place. You're more likely to get the books to someone who can appreciate them than giving them to a local library.
I've named a book executor for my specialized collection. As long as she's living in the area I know she will make sure my books go to people who can make use of them. I she moves (since she's thinking of retiring) or passes away before I do, I will have to change that provision in my will.
Good luck!
I refer readers, including lurking primitives, to this:
"observation upon attending a library book sale" [franksolich, February 12, 2011]
http://conservativecave.com/index.php?topic=55337.0
Now, nobody's going to deny that libraries throw out "right-wing political stuff;" libraries throw out a lot of things, including left-wing political stuff.
The public apparently doesn't want left-wing political junk either.
As late as 2004, twenty years after the presidential election of 1984, in used book stores and thrift stores all over Nebraska, one could still see piles, stacks, of Genevieve Ferrari's book about running for vice president that year. Still in their original plastic shrink-wrap, never opened. And usually in the "6 books for 25 cents" bin.
The csziggy primitive's got to be careful about making gratuitously sloppy statements, lest she end up in the running for the Top DUmmies of 2015.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018780817
Oh my.
Question.
Since when are 200-300 books an "extensive library"?
Geezuz gawd, franksolich has more than 200-300 books, all of them hardcover, no cheap paperbacks, against only one single wall of the living room--not to mention many more scattered throughout the house.
I'd hesitate to call what I have a "library," much less an "extensive" one.
I dunno how many books my father managed to acquire in his lifetime; I've written about it before, but it's too damned hot and humid to write about it again. At the time of his death, they were approaching 4,000--all hardcover, about two-thirds of them slipcased--but being pretty young and shallow at the time, I didn't pay attention.
<<<grew up in two houses (although not at the same time), where even the hallways had floor-to-ceiling built-in bookshelves.
That, I'd call a "library," but not necessarily an "extensive" one.
There's a lot of primitive comments at this thread, but this lie in particular stands out:
I refer readers, including lurking primitives, to this:
"observation upon attending a library book sale" [franksolich, February 12, 2011]
http://conservativecave.com/index.php?topic=55337.0
Now, nobody's going to deny that libraries throw out "right-wing political stuff;" libraries throw out a lot of things, including left-wing political stuff.
The public apparently doesn't want left-wing political junk either.
As late as 2004, twenty years after the presidential election of 1984, in used book stores and thrift stores all over Nebraska, one could still see piles, stacks, of Genevieve Ferrari's book about running for vice president that year. Still in their original plastic shrink-wrap, never opened. And usually in the "6 books for 25 cents" bin.
The csziggy primitive's got to be careful about making gratuitously sloppy statements, lest she end up in the running for the Top DUmmies of 2015.
One thing about the DUmmies...they treasure their book collections. Every single time there's a story about someone living in one of those new tiny spaces, the first objection is to the lack of space for their books. Based on what they reveal about their preferences, I imagine their collections are composed of every Vonnegut book (paperback, yellowed and frayed), scads upon scads of awful science fiction, bestsellers they would be ashamed to admit they have (e.g., Scruples, with the sex scenes highlighted and certain pages stuck together), flavor-of-the-month political tomes dating back to Adlai Stevenson, manuals for long-dead programming languages, and cookbooks loaded down with recipes for shit like vegetarian chili and wheat germ pancakes. At least 15% of a DUmmy's book collection has been dropped in a toilet, and a pet has defecated on another 5%.
Every DUmmy is certain that their collection of books is priceless. Every DUmmy has at least one Philip K. Dick novel with notes scribbled in the margin that cannot be replaced at any cost. Every DUmmy has books that were handed down from fathers, which they imagine confers and bestows prestige and honor. Every DUmmy can tell you at any moment of the day where their copy of To Kill A Mockingbird is (and they'd be wrong: DUmmies claim to have read roughly 3% of the books they claim to have read).
Ugh. Just writing this down makes me think I can smell lentil soup cooking. I don't like DUmmies.
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DUmbass is fishing for someone to tell them where to find out how much their inheritance is worth.
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DUmbass is fishing for someone to tell them where to find out how much their inheritance is worth.
Seeing as how flea markets sell paperbacks for a dime each, I'd reckon that DUmmy is sitting on about 5 bucks.
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200-300 books, huh....all guides to perverted sex.
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200-300 books, huh....all guides to perverted sex.
lol.... There's the primitive's dad smoking a pipe, clothed in nothing but an old bathrobe inherited from his mom. "Gather 'round children, let me tell you a story..." and brings out one of those stories while crossing a leg and exposing himself to the room. The explanation of why the primitive is who he is today.
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lol.... There's the primitive's dad smoking a pipe, Crack or weed? clothed in nothing but an old bathrobe inherited from his mom. "Gather 'round children, let me tell you a story..." and brings out one of those stories while crossing a leg and exposing himself to the room. DUmmie menz have nothing there to expose. The explanation of why the primitive is who he is today.
Library consists of entire collection of "High times", "Hustler" and " Happy Sheep". :sheep: :sheep:
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Seeing as how flea markets sell paperbacks for a dime each, I'd reckon that DUmmy is sitting on about 5 bucks.
You know, like Atman, who grew up with money, and hence got the idea that everybody else has as much as he does, I was the same way with books. It wasn't until I was an adult that I finally realized, hey, I'd grown up with a Hell of a lot more books than most of my peers.
My father, when young, must've been a charter member of the Heritage Club, before then known as the Limited Editions Club; I still have some of his books--in storage, not out here--from the late 1930s, bright and shiny and slipcased and all that. Heritage Club books were solid, well-made tomes, using paper and ink guaranteed to last hundreds of years, but for whatever reason, they're a dud on the used-goods market.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018780817
Oh my.
Question.
Since when are 200-300 books an "extensive library"?
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My thoughts exactly. While I don't share your prejudices as far as format is concerned, there are many subjects or even subcategories of subjects on which I easily have that number of books. And I'm a piker compared to my wife.
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Like frank said, 200-300 books is an "extensive library"? Did any DU-member on that thread question that? For all their self-proclaimed intelligence they don't seem read much.
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I have over 200 engineering texts. The wife has more than that in cooking books. Our recreational library has to be close to 1000. I guess that is what defines a knuckle dragging conservative.
OAN: When I say the title I knew there would have to be some references to burning, trashing, or somehow destroying books the low IQ hive mind did not agree with.....and I was right.
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Ralphie has hundreds of books, mostly about baseball, golf, accounting, finance & politics. Most are in safe storage, but I keep a bunch on my headboard/nightstand. The ones I often reference. At some point, I'll decide to have a dedicated library. So many books bring back fond memories, just kinda cool to look at from time to time.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018780817
Oh my.
Question.
Since when are 200-300 books an "extensive library"?
From the years 500 AD until about the early 1700's. After that, not so much.
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I would think DUmbasses would have that many just on growing weed or making Meth.