Re: Oddities

On 4/10/2025 4:40 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

On Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:11:09 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
 

On 4/10/2025 3:38 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

  Also, the book inventory is rather dynamic and changes often.  The
process is known as "weeding", where books that have had no
circulation in a year are recycled: ...

>
I'm well aware of that, and I've sometimes wished I could "reserve" a
book in a different way than usual. Instead of "Can I borrow it when
someone finally returns it?" there are books I've wished I could have
said "When you're getting ready to throw it out, can I buy it?" I missed
a couple good ones that way.

 The Santa Cruz library main branch used to have book sales.  They
stopped because the few sales and little revenue obtained from book
sales was not sufficient to justify the effort.
 

These days, it's less of an issue for me. I've found
https://www.abebooks.com/
to be an excellent source of old or out-of-print books.

 I use Alibris:
<https://www.alibris.com>
for buying used books.
 

I do as well. A lot.
I once knew a girl who worked (part time student job) at an engineering library. She'd let me peruse the books pulled and on their way to landfill occasionally. Some of them are quite useful!
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