Be Excellent To Each Other

To me your original post was more of a statement - "When did books become worthless because i've just found this out"

I've not posted in the thread yet because i found this out a few months ago when i tried to clear down my books and found if i was lucky i was getting a few pennies for them on ebay and even then one or two 'heavy' books and their limit on what you can charge for shipping did away with the whole profit.

Books (unless signed or first editions / r@re) are pretty much worthless - if you dont want them then give them away or stick them in the recylcing bin - online and E-books have contributed to this but at the same time the supermarkets getting involved a few years ago and selling new hardback books at around 1/3 of their 'list price' when new probably didnt help much.

On one of the recent Nerdist podcasts they have Scott Sigler on and discuss just how f**ked up the whole book industry is right now and what authors are trying to do to make a living (its worth a listen - link below)

http://www.nerdist.com/2012/04/nerdist- ... tt-sigler/

I have about four boxes I don't want. Do Fatbrain do an app I scan them all with?

Not that I'm aware. The only reason I did mine is because I have a barcode scanner and could race through them. They do let you add multiple barcodes at once though, up to a limit at about 10 at a time.

Sorry to disappoint such an articulate debater.

I just washed my clothes in hot sauce! Now my bottom's big!

Derp books are made of wood. Derrrrrp. I am disappoint. Derrrrrp.

I think I liked you better when you were off flouncing.

I liked you better when you being gangfucked on EvE,

Haha, and yet strangely that actually never happened. Try harder.

Save them for your car boot if you're still going to do one.

No, seriously, I did. I felt awful for you during that whole saga. Today I simply called out your snipe at me on this thread. Anyway, regarding flouncing, Mr Pot would like to call Mr Kettle black again RemovedByRequest.

Tut. TUT!

This is because you're posting bizarro nonsense for seemingly no reason. What's it all about?

Hello. I'm Dimrill. Pleased to meet you.

Hmmm.

TUT!

I wish Scott Steiner posted on this forum. He’d put you all right.

Here's my real thoughts on the subject matter:

Outside of a specialist publisher akin to Games Workshop/Black Library... possibly the Cthulhu stuff of Arkham House, yes second hand books are cheap. As I done said befooah.

Worst beatbox ever.

That's all I'm looking for, man. All else confuses me.

I sold my copy of The Selfish Gene overnight for about £3. Better than nothing.

Then stop calling me an anus, anus.

What else can I add apart from "*rolls eyes and nods* Duh I know right?!"

Books nowadays are reprinted and repackaged and reprinted again. Hardly surprising that they're worth nowt when there's 14 billion copies circulating car boot sales across the country. I own 5 copies of Lord of the Rings. Only the ZOMG R@R3 limited edition prints are ever going to be worth anything much.

I bet the prices will rise again when all the electricity runs out.

I liked you more when you were funny.

I liked you more when I thought you were posh.

I liked you more when you had a pulmonary embolism.

I liked you more when you talked and spelled Welsh.

Then stop talking jibberjabber in my thread

I liked you more when you were best mates with CUS.

I liked you more when myp didn't like you.

I may have ruined that.

I liked you more when you were angry.

I never liked any of you. I only came here to flog you my retro games.

I've never liked any of you.

ffs...

And so another in-joke was born. Write that down in your copy books.

I like you more now that you've been owned.

I'm not liking anything.

I liked you all more when I could lock threads.

So did your mum.

MR INJOKE FAVE

What he said.

I just handbombed some product onto the loading plate.

Dirty boy

BOOKS!



SIGNED!



WARNING!

See, that's worth something to another person called Mike.

I liked your mother up her weeping anus bent over her washing machine while I ate the world's hottest curry drenched in the world's hottester hot sauce while not reading 10 pages or counting how many sleeps were left and signing her invoice for £2 worth of boiled Vimto with rats in while DrG yelled at me from the other side of Davpaz's giant head because I couldn't remember when it was again.

I've got a 10-year-old copy of "Problem Solving and Data Abstraction in Java" if anyone wants it. £50 o.n.o, might as well try to make a profit on it.

I liked you more when I was in your in-jokes.

But not as much as it is to this person called Mike.

The invoice even says things like "Qty: 1. Price: $20.00. Number of Deadly Sins, excluding Sloth: 6".

We have a generic reading thread you know, "Mike"?

SHEESH.

I have signed books by Mick Foley and Mil Millington. Signed by the authors too, no less.