I took two boxes of books to the reseller and they bought quite a few of them. The ones they didn’t take I put in the recycling bin. I hate to do that to books that could possibly be of use to someone, but I’m not sure what to do with coffee-table books of “Buddhist Art of Japan.” I’m just happy to get rid of them, really. They even wouldn’t take one that is rare and possibly worth something because the spine was cracked. What do they expect from a scholarly pamphlet from the 50’s? Powell’s books is kind of a disappointment to me because they’ve become so large that they only sell new books and almost-new books. Any little defect and they reject the book. But I guess it can’t be like it was in the past when we could buy old science fiction books for fifty cents.
I rescued the pamphlet and I’m going to try to put it on eBay. We’ll see how well that works.
wish there was some way for us to save all of george’s books on buddhism. i think they’re so cool. jg has been reading bits aloud from the little zen book i took from your house. we get so discombobulated by the riddles. they make absolutely no sense to us. it’s sort of funny, in a sad way.
are all of george’s books gone?
Donate them to the library. Then you even get a write off. If there is a good collection of Buddist books the Buddist temple might want them.