I've stored Dad's stuff a long time. Amongst much else: 27 banker's boxes full of books. Today I (re)started sifting through them.
Of course I'll keep the operatic libretti, and the symphonic scores.
But a pile of books on musical appreciation ... I don't need these. Yet ... Here's one given by my grandfather to my father on the occasion of his 19th birthday, while he was stationed in the South Pacific.
How is it possible to rid oneself of books?
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Well, I wouldn't get rid of any signed or sentimental type books, but the other ones you might donate to the liberry. I did a lot of that when moving a couple times and even now when the paperbacks pile up.
Liberry? Most of these books are too old for that. I just go to Goodwill.
Mebbe too old. OTOH, maybe not. The liberries take the donations to sell to the public so they can raise money to keep the liberry going. There are tons of hoarders who lurve old books and will pay a buck for some treasure they plan to one day sell for millions on ebay.
Old bookstores, unless they're generally generic zero-value sorts of books.
A lot of jails (I assume the sheriff runs your jail system out there) will take book donations, especially in smaller jurisdictions (probably not LA or SF.) They'd rather keep the seriously bored inmates reading something "new" than killing each other or coming up with some other less desirable way of entertaining themselves like using the book-paper to make shivs.
You can say you're doing your part to rehab some sort of lost-soul human maggotry that no one else cares about, so yay and all that.
It would burnish your lib cred. (Jerking your chain a bit here...serious about the jail donations though...)
Scores? Libretti? Oh my God. I would lay those down on the floor and roll in them.
I know. As a teen sometimes I'd listen to The Planets or Carmina Burana or Beethoven's Pastoral and follow the score. Did you know the women's choir at the end of the Neptune movement sings in a room backstage, with instruction to slowly close the door as they fade away?
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