German books

[shaneystar2]

We've inherited from my late Ma in law loads of books .All in German .Two crates full !
All in storage .
My son is on holiday at the moment and we've been to the storage facility today and had a look through them .Lots of classics ,Dickens etc . ,German book club editions of popular novels of the time..50's 60' 70's ,Encylopedias .You name it we've got 'em ! We've sifted through the ones of interest to us but are still left with at least a couple of hundred books .
Any ideas as to how I can dispose of them .

[woofgang]

if you want to try and sell them yourselves then Abebooks?

[Buenchico]

You could trying selling them through 'The Language Of . . .' website:
http://www.thelanguag...mation.php?info_id=11
(Click 'I want to sell')

Chris

[Euphemia]

Oxfam Bookshop

[boxtops]

You could try selling on either Amazon or eBay, they're international sites.

[shaneystar2]

Oh Lord Woofie ..I'd be listing them forever !
And I daresay they aren't worth that much really .
Nice bindings etc though .
A lot of them are sort of roman stuff .Pearl S Buck and that other American writer whose name escapes me who wrote family saga type things . And some of them are German family saga type things .Buddenbrooks etc .
I was just wondering if I could get rid of them as a job lot somewhere .I'm not bothered about geting any money for them really .

[boxtops]

Are there any timeshare resorts or similar in your area, shaney, where Germans holiday? They might appreciate them for a library for people to read on holiday?

[shaneystar2]

This is what I was thinking Boxtops .We do get lots of Geramn holidaymakers here .They come for the Broads .I may have a word at my local library .Plus we have the UEA who may also be interested .Never thought of that .
Good idea .Thank you .

[jno]

I don't suppose the local Goethe Institute would come and get them? (I say 'local' but they're in London and Manchester; all the same, they might know a German with a lorry living near you.)

http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/enindex.htm

[Canary42]

If you're in Norfolk (which it sounds like you are) why not try Keys of Aylsham who regularly hold book auctions.

[shaneystar2]

Lol ..Jno..
Do you think The Goethe Institute would be interested in Gone with the Wind in German :)
That's another option too Canary . Thank you .We do have local auctioneers who may be interested too .You never know .This is all a headache really .and has gone on too long now . And it doesn't end with just books :)

Anybody know what I can do with enough stuff to kit out a small hotel :=)

[woofgang]

Definitely sounds like a job fir an auction rooms

[vivandorron]

Hi shaney.....Hope you are keeping well....Viv and I are.

If you are prepared to give the books to charity, Euphemia has made an excellent suggestion. Oxfam does have an 'on-line' bookshop and sells quite a lot of books which have been written in German.

Best wishes...Ron.

[shaneystar2]

Thanks for your suggestion Ron and yours too Euphemia .
We don't have an Oxfam shop here but I'll give the one at Lowestoft a look when I next venture south of the border and see if they would like them .
All the best to you and Viv
Shaney

[atalanta]

There is an organisation - I think itmis a charity - called "Better world Books" which takes all sorts of books, especially those deleted and discarded from public Libraries. They sort our some which can be sold, and others which can be exported to assist with education abroad.
If you have large quantities to dispose of, they will send packing materials free and will pay for boxes to be collected.

[shaneystar2]

Welcome to the library.Don't forget your membership cards and I don't want any running around or surreptitious eating under the tables.This is a quiet place and we just want to read our books in peace:)

[woofgang]

Good morning all....Shaney what did you do with ehe books?

[shaneystar2]

Oxfam took quite a lot Woofy and I found a second hand book shop in GY who took some .We still have some left though but they've been whittled down into a large box which is now in the loft.I managed to get rid of the wooden crates as well, eventually .Gave them to the new neighbour for his wood burning stove.
Quite hot here today and overcast.

[bhg481]

Please don't just "dump" the books on a charity shop - ask first if they want them. If they can't sell the books they have to pay commercial prices for the council to take them away. When I worked one of my colleagues used to bring in books the local charity shop couldn't sell and give them to anyone who wanted them; the rest he put in his own recycling bin a few at a time to save the charity money.

[shaneystar2]

I didn't "dump " them .I asked first and Oxfam were happy to take them as was the second hand bookseller.I'm not in the habit of dumping unwanted stuff willy nilly.

[bhg481]

Not an accusation, Shaney, just a general warning to the population in general. It hadn't occurred to me that some books could be a liability until my colleague pointed it out and I was just trying to warn people against aasuming that all books were "good".