Near one of my workplaces, there is an older gentleman who is an expert at refurbishing furniture. He is also a book lover who hates seeing books thrown into the trash. So as he makes his rounds to various estate sales, he scoops up books that seem destined for the rubbish heap.
In case you haven’t seen it, the traditional public book sales, where interested buyers scan through titles to see what they might enjoy reading, have gone the way of the buggy whip. The last time I stopped at a library book sale, there were two frantic people with cell phones Velcroed to their wrists, racing through all the shelves of books.
They would pick up a book and aim their cell phone at the barcode on the back. If the dollar signs flashed positive for reselling, they threw it into a box. You may soon see […]
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