Nothing beats reading a paper book. The rustling of the pages, the smell of printing ink, a curved corner marking the right place - all this is not understood by those who prefer electronic versions of publications.
Unfortunately, in the age of universal computerization, many people are thinking about how to free up a bit of living space and get rid of printed books - unnecessary, in their opinion, trash. Where to rent old books? Where to sell books in Moscow or abroad? This question is of concern to many today, especially young people.
Dump
Probably the first thing that comes to the head of a person who is considering a pile of junk that is unnecessary, in his opinion, is to take everything to the “trash” and quickly forget it. However, this is not the best solution to the question of where you can take old unnecessary books and magazines. This method, of course, is the fastest, but there will be no use from it. Firstly, you will not be able to earn a penny on this, and secondly, there is no benefit for others here either.
The action "Good Samaritan"
If you not only don’t know where to turn in the old books, but also want to do a good deed, you can use one of the following options:
1. Kindergarten, orphanage, shelter or school. Review your existing assortment. If among the books and magazines that you decided to get rid of, there is literature that can interest children - you have a direct road to one of these institutions. The budgets of school and preschool institutions today are so insignificant that the replenishment of the book fund is clearly not a priority item of expenditure.
2. Temples and social services. Fiction and fiction are welcome here. Then your books will be handed over to social shelters or to low-income families who will accept them with gratitude. In such places, there is usually no money to buy modern gadgets, and even poor people like to read.
3. Hospitals and motels. In these institutions, money for books is also absent. And what can brighten up the life of an unhealthy person more than an interesting book?
4. Libraries. Here God himself ordered to take books. However, publications are still not accepted by all. If you decide to turn in the reading shorthand of the speech of V.I. Lenin at a party meeting in the city of N, you will most likely be refused. Therefore, in order not to drag heaviness in vain, it is best to first compile a list of what you want to donate to the library, and take it to the head. Employees of the reading room will note the publications that they are ready to receive, and if there are a lot of them, even they will come to your home.
Money books
If charity is not your thing, and you are looking for where you can donate books for money, then you will have to work hard. First of all, you need to iterate over your library. To begin with, put aside nobody’s useless, unpopular publications of the Soviet era, which were given to you "in the load" to the masterpieces of world literature. Most likely, you will not succeed in realizing these books, therefore they have one way - to waste paper. For example, in the area of metro station "Strogino" there is a reception point at which such folios are accepted at a price of 5-7 rubles per kilogram. The easiest way to find out where the recycling center is located in your area is to ask the local outcasts. They certainly know all the "points".
More expensive and interesting publications can be handed over for sale to collection points for old books or second-hand bookstores. To contact these points you will also need an inventory of the proposed publications. The addresses of such stores in your city can usually be found on relevant information resources.
The next way is flea markets. Trading there yourself is not necessary at all. Most often in these places there are so-called wholesale points or “points” where resellers purchase almost everything at a price of 10-15 rubles apiece.
If you decide to sell books published in the last year or two, you can try to participate in the action, which is regularly held by the Medvedkovo Book House. If you have a new work in excellent condition, and it is in the assortment of the store, you can sell it to the Book House itself. You will be paid half the cost, but the money will not be given in cash, but credited to a special card with which you can purchase any books from the store’s assortment.
And again the internet
If all of the above options for places where you can rent books for money are not suitable for you, you can try to sell them yourself and at the price that suits you. Of course, the Internet will help you with this.
There are many different sites, marketplaces and electronic flea markets where you can put up for sale anything, including books. However, here you most likely will not be able to sell everything at once, you will have to set the lots separately. Each of the books will need to be photographed, a description made, set a price and wait for a call from buyers. Here is just a small list of suitable resources:
- Libex.ru.
- Alib.ru.
- Avito.ru.
- Amazon.com
- Antik-book.ru.
- Book-bazar.com and others.
If you have a lot of books, you can try to create your own online store or arrange a sale on social networks: Facebook, Twitter, VKontakte, Odnoklassniki and so on. You can suggest a topic on the forum of second-hand book dealers or librarians.
How to evaluate an old book
If you have already found a suitable place for yourself where you can rent books for money, then the next step should be to evaluate your library. You can, of course, turn to specially trained people - appraisers, but, firstly, they will have to pay, and secondly, among them there are often dishonest people who can greatly underestimate the value of your books in the hope of gaining valuable or valuable people publications on the cheap.
- If you are going to sell a book that you have not read, try to find out its contents. So you can better understand whether the work is of any value.
- Look at the year of publication of the volume and the years of its author's life. You need to know that intravital copies are much more expensive than those that are printed after the death of the writer. In addition, you need to find out if the book is not related to antiques. Such may be recognized publications that saw the light more than half a century ago.
- Try to find out what the overall circulation of the publication is. If such books were published less than 10 thousand, there is a chance that you have a bibliographic rarity.
- Carefully inspect the book, make sure that all pages are in place and are in satisfactory condition. The cost of an antique publication in poor and good condition is radically different. You may need to contact the restorer.
- Think about whether the book is part of a series, a multivolume. One or two volumes from a lost series are also not too expensive. If the publication is a multi-volume, it is better to sell it in its entirety.
Of course, all these recommendations apply only to old books. To appreciate the more modern, just wander around the bookstores or rummage through flea market sites. So you can get an idea of how much a publication can cost in principle.
Awl on soap
If you still have not found a place where you can rent books for money, or decide to do a good deed for free, you can participate in the global bookcrossing movement. This term means free exchange of literature. There are specially designated places where you can bring your books and exchange them for free for other, more interesting, or those that you have not read. Such a service is provided, for example, by the anticafe “Dial”, located on Tverskaya. Addresses of other bookcrossing points can also be searched on the Internet.
Also on the network you can find sites where unnecessary books can be exchanged for other items, such as children's items or a table lamp. Having picked up a suitable option, you should meet with another user and make an exchange.
