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 Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 3:46 pm Post subject: Re: Prophet Don |
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Lumpy wrote:
Some protest. Used books by Clancy, Daniel Steel and many other
current authors can't be given away at library book sales, yet someone
is buying them new. We've often referred to such books as good only
for fuel value, but this is the first time I've actually seen such being
utilized.
We once saw a bookcase at one sale containing perhaps 200 Daniel Steel
hardbacks (in quite excellent condition) with a 10 cent sale price. We
considered using them as starter logs for our fire place. I'm sure they
ended up in a dumpster. |
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 4:00 pm Post subject: Re: Prophet Don |
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Lumpy wrote:
books!
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(: The Smoke is Strong with this one. :)
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Kris Baker
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 5:26 pm Post subject: Re: Prophet Don |
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"Lumpy" <lumpy@digitalcartography.com> wrote in message
news:5bvp5tF2udb66U1@mid.individual.net...
' "This is the funeral pyre for thought in America today," Wayne
told spectators outside his bookstore as he lit the first batch
of books. '
Well....it's really the *right* thing to do. For some reason, people
are afraid to discard books - like each one carries a special value
to humanity. Most books *are* trash. Most books *are* firsts.
What it was a funeral pyre for, was the environment. Why not
bury them and let them compost naturally? Oh wait. That's in
another book. That HE obviously didn't read.
Kris |
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Weird Beard
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 5:34 pm Post subject: Re: Prophet Don |
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On Mon, 28 May 2007 11:46:00 GMT, clams casino <PeterGriffin@drunkin-
clam.com> wrote the following in alt.marketing.online.ebay:
IMO, it's partly because library books have "return me to the library
written all over them - literaly. Makes the book look ugly have the time
and assures that everyone knows you got it at a library sale.
Used book stores, OTOH, usually have a small sticker and an erasable price.
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"It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that certain je-ne-sais-quoi."
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Pogonip
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 10:08 pm Post subject: Re: Prophet Don |
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Kris Baker wrote:
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"Lumpy" <lumpy@digitalcartography.com> wrote in message
news:5bvp5tF2udb66U1@mid.individual.net...
Books? Who needs 'em -
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070528/ap_en_ot/book_burning_2
Lumpy
' "This is the funeral pyre for thought in America today," Wayne
told spectators outside his bookstore as he lit the first batch
of books. '
Well....it's really the *right* thing to do. For some reason, people
are afraid to discard books - like each one carries a special value
to humanity. Most books *are* trash. Most books *are* firsts.
What it was a funeral pyre for, was the environment. Why not
bury them and let them compost naturally? Oh wait. That's in
another book. That HE obviously didn't read.
Kris
Troops in Afghanistan and Iraq welcome paperback books. Their service |
often is hours of unrelieved boredom interrupted by minutes of terror.
Books help. Of course, the postage is a killer.
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Joanne
stitches @ singerlady.reno.nv.us.earth.milky-way.com
http://members.tripod.com/~bernardschopen/ |
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Don Lancaster
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 10:44 pm Post subject: Re: Prophet Don |
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Pogonip wrote:
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Kris Baker wrote:
"Lumpy" <lumpy@digitalcartography.com> wrote in message
news:5bvp5tF2udb66U1@mid.individual.net...
Books? Who needs 'em -
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070528/ap_en_ot/book_burning_2
Lumpy
' "This is the funeral pyre for thought in America today," Wayne
told spectators outside his bookstore as he lit the first batch
of books. '
Well....it's really the *right* thing to do. For some reason, people
are afraid to discard books - like each one carries a special value
to humanity. Most books *are* trash. Most books *are* firsts.
What it was a funeral pyre for, was the environment. Why not
bury them and let them compost naturally? Oh wait. That's in
another book. That HE obviously didn't read.
Kris
Troops in Afghanistan and Iraq welcome paperback books. Their service
often is hours of unrelieved boredom interrupted by minutes of terror.
Books help. Of course, the postage is a killer.
So are the politicians that sent the troups there in the first place. |
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Please visit my GURU's LAIR web site at http://www.tinaja.com |
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TyMeDwn1st
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 10:45 pm Post subject: Re: Prophet Don |
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On Mon, 28 May 2007 13:26:23 GMT, "Kris Baker" <kris.baker@prodigyyy.net>
wrote:
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"Lumpy" <lumpy@digitalcartography.com> wrote in message
news:5bvp5tF2udb66U1@mid.individual.net...
Books? Who needs 'em -
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070528/ap_en_ot/book_burning_2
Lumpy
' "This is the funeral pyre for thought in America today," Wayne
told spectators outside his bookstore as he lit the first batch
of books. '
Well....it's really the *right* thing to do. For some reason, people
are afraid to discard books - like each one carries a special value
to humanity. Most books *are* trash. Most books *are* firsts.
What it was a funeral pyre for, was the environment. Why not
bury them and let them compost naturally? Oh wait. That's in
another book. That HE obviously didn't read.
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I got a chuckle out of the comments by people who actually bought some of
his books just to save them from being burned. So how come the owner
didn't just give them away to people at that point, since his entire screed
was that he hadn't been able to give them away earlier?
--
Ty
Who is mostly just a
slightly skewed
Donna Reed
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting
for the other person to die.
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Pogonip
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 10:58 pm Post subject: Re: Prophet Don |
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Don Lancaster wrote:
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Pogonip wrote:
Troops in Afghanistan and Iraq welcome paperback books. Their service
often is hours of unrelieved boredom interrupted by minutes of terror.
Books help. Of course, the postage is a killer.
So are the politicians that sent the troups there in the first place.
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602 days and counting. http://www.backwardsbush.com/
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 11:12 pm Post subject: Re: Prophet Don |
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Weird Beard wrote:
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On Mon, 28 May 2007 11:46:00 GMT, clams casino <PeterGriffin@drunkin-
clam.com> wrote the following in alt.marketing.online.ebay:
Lumpy wrote:
Books? Who needs 'em -
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070528/ap_en_ot/book_burning_2
Lumpy
Some protest. Used books by Clancy, Daniel Steel and many other
current authors can't be given away at library book sales, yet someone
is buying them new.
IMO, it's partly because library books have "return me to the library
written all over them - literaly. Makes the book look ugly have the time
and assures that everyone knows you got it at a library sale.
Used book stores, OTOH, usually have a small sticker and an erasable price.
These were donated books - NO markings. |
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 11:19 pm Post subject: Re: Prophet Don |
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Pogonip wrote:
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Troops in Afghanistan and Iraq welcome paperback books. Their service
often is hours of unrelieved boredom interrupted by minutes of terror.
Books help. Of course, the postage is a killer.
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We do that frequently, especially when we come across the fill-a bag for
a $1 sales. We load up on current (donated) paperbacks & ship them
overseas to family members in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc to share amongst
their camps
Postage really isn't that much (under $7 for 15 lbs media - less than a
typical retail cost of one pb) and oddly, they most always arrive in
about 7 days (better than many inter US deliveries). |
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Kris Baker
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 11:49 pm Post subject: Re: Prophet Don |
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"clams casino" <PeterGriffin@drunkin-clam.com> wrote in message
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Pogonip wrote:
Troops in Afghanistan and Iraq welcome paperback books. Their service
often is hours of unrelieved boredom interrupted by minutes of terror.
Books help. Of course, the postage is a killer.
We do that frequently, especially when we come across the fill-a bag for a
$1 sales. We load up on current (donated) paperbacks & ship them overseas
to family members in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc to share amongst their camps
Postage really isn't that much (under $7 for 15 lbs media - less than a
typical retail cost of one pb) and oddly, they most always arrive in about
7 days (better than many inter US deliveries).
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That's because almost everything goes by air now. My Media
Mail shipments have been arriving in 3-4 days stateside lately.
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Kris Baker
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 11:50 pm Post subject: Re: Prophet Don |
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"TyMeDwn1st" <TyMeDwn1st@aol.com> wrote in message
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On Mon, 28 May 2007 13:26:23 GMT, "Kris Baker" <kris.baker@prodigyyy.net
wrote:
"Lumpy" <lumpy@digitalcartography.com> wrote in message
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Books? Who needs 'em -
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070528/ap_en_ot/book_burning_2
Lumpy
' "This is the funeral pyre for thought in America today," Wayne
told spectators outside his bookstore as he lit the first batch
of books. '
Well....it's really the *right* thing to do. For some reason, people
are afraid to discard books - like each one carries a special value
to humanity. Most books *are* trash. Most books *are* firsts.
What it was a funeral pyre for, was the environment. Why not
bury them and let them compost naturally? Oh wait. That's in
another book. That HE obviously didn't read.
I got a chuckle out of the comments by people who actually bought some of
his books just to save them from being burned. So how come the owner
didn't just give them away to people at that point, since his entire
screed
was that he hadn't been able to give them away earlier?
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Ty
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Because it's all for publicity. Just the mention of "burning books"
brings out the cameras and reporters (that he called to show up,
at the planned location and time).
I'll bet he sold a lot; based on what's listed, he should have been
smart enough not to warehouse them in the first place.
Kris |
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jim menning
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| Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 12:13 am Post subject: Re: Prophet Don |
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"TyMeDwn1st" <TyMeDwn1st@aol.com> wrote in message
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I got a chuckle out of the comments by people who actually bought some of
his books just to save them from being burned. So how come the owner
didn't just give them away to people at that point, since his entire screed
was that he hadn't been able to give them away earlier?
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He should have given them to the local recyclers rather than having his little
protest. |
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Kris Baker
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| Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 12:20 am Post subject: Re: Prophet Don |
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"jim menning" <jmenningSPAM@new.rr.com> wrote in message
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"TyMeDwn1st" <TyMeDwn1st@aol.com> wrote in message
news:kn8m539p1n594pd5p64iuru4t2hr8ev9kh@4ax.com...
I got a chuckle out of the comments by people who actually bought some of
his books just to save them from being burned. So how come the owner
didn't just give them away to people at that point, since his entire
screed
was that he hadn't been able to give them away earlier?
He should have given them to the local recyclers rather than having his
little protest.
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Ah, but he wouldn't have created a bit of publicity that way.
Watch bookbuyers from all over the country flock to his shop,
hoping to catch a bargain before he burns more. It won't work.
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