> > > 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". >
It would be a shame to see this potential resource go to waste. If you don't find any other takers, I might be willing to take them off your hands. I'm not sure when I would be able to come get them, though. /thor
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