How Do You Hold A Used Book Sale?
• Gather all the books. Call up friends, neighbors, teachers, relatives, whoever. Get those books! Prepare a storage space for the books such as your basement or the garage. Get as many books as possible, but be careful not to add any worm-infected books into your stock (discard them in the garbage and get them out of the house immediately). The ‘collection’ process may take a week or two. Be patient and try your best. Ask someone to help you judge if you have unknowingly been given a valuable antique! • Sort the stock. Separate the trashed books — paperbacks without covers, books with broken spines or missing pages. Nobody wants to read these. If they have great illustrations and some artist might be able to use them, make a separate section called “Damaged Books, Cheap!” so somebody doesn’t accidentally buy a book that will disappoint them later. Paperbacks can be put into paperback recycling, but the glue in the spines of hardcover books makes them not recyclable, so do everyone a
