On Jan 17, 2010, at 2:56 PM, Eric Myers wrote:
> It seems like this fine collection would do more good in a library.
> And since we already meet at a library....
>
> Sean, perhaps you or someone in the group knows who to talk to about possibly
> adding these to their collection? They may not know the great value here,
> but we sure do, and we could communicate that to them.
>
> And then anybody in the group (with a library card) would be able to make use
> of these books.
Typically the problems with going into a library collection will be as follows:
- The books are nowhere near being in "mint" condition. That's not to
say that they're "trashed", but simply that, well, they've paperback books, and
some are over ten years old.
- For good chunks of the time I collected these, I worked in an office
environment where "borrowed" books tended to never get returned and all looked
the same so they were impossible to identify which one on someone else's
bookshelf was yours... So, they have my last name written across the top of
pages (ie., if you look DOWN on the book, from above, you can see it) in large
friendly letters.
Neither of which is likely a problem for members of this list (who care about
the content more than anything else to a large extent), but my experience with
library donations in the past is that they have shied away from books like
these because it's not how they want their books to "look".
D
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