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When did books become completely worthless?
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Author:  zaphod79 [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 14:28 ]
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ElephantBanjoGnome wrote:
Replies on this forum are either flippant, sarcastic, or some form of in-joke.


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/
Author:  Mr Russell [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 14:45 ]
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I have about four boxes I don't want. Do Fatbrain do an app I scan them all with?
Author:  ElephantBanjoGnome [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 14:50 ]
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Mr Russell wrote:
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.
Author:  Dimrill [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 14:53 ]
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ElephantBanjoGnome wrote:
Replies on this forum are either flippant, sarcastic, or some form of in-joke. I'm seeing this on nearly every subject, and it disappoints. Has everyone become incapable of making a serious and sincere post?

Edit: Actually, maybe it's just certain people...


Sorry to disappoint such an articulate debater.
Author:  metalangel [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 14:55 ]
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I just washed my clothes in hot sauce! Now my bottom's big!
Author:  Dimrill [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 14:57 ]
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Derp books are made of wood. Derrrrrp. I am disappoint. Derrrrrp.
Author:  ElephantBanjoGnome [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 15:19 ]
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Dimrill wrote:
Derp books are made of wood. Derrrrrp. I am disappoint. Derrrrrp.

I think I liked you better when you were off flouncing.
Author:  Dimrill [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 15:26 ]
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I liked you better when you being gangfucked on EvE,
Author:  ElephantBanjoGnome [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 15:30 ]
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Haha, and yet strangely that actually never happened. Try harder.
Author:  Goddess Jasmine [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 15:36 ]
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Mr Russell wrote:
I have about four boxes I don't want. Do Fatbrain do an app I scan them all with?

Save them for your car boot if you're still going to do one.
Author:  Dimrill [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 15:40 ]
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ElephantBanjoGnome wrote:
Haha, and yet strangely that actually never happened. Try harder.


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.
Author:  DavPaz [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 15:51 ]
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Tut. TUT!
Author:  ElephantBanjoGnome [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 15:53 ]
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Dimrill wrote:
Today I simply called out your snipe at me on this thread.

This is because you're posting bizarro nonsense for seemingly no reason. What's it all about? ?:|
Author:  Dimrill [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 15:59 ]
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ElephantBanjoGnome wrote:
Dimrill wrote:
Today I simply called out your snipe at me on this thread.

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.
Author:  ElephantBanjoGnome [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 16:02 ]
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Hmmm.
Author:  DavPaz [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 16:05 ]
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TUT!
Author:  TheVision [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 16:05 ]
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I wish Scott Steiner posted on this forum. He’d put you all right.
Author:  Dimrill [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 16:05 ]
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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.
Author:  Zardoz [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 16:07 ]
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DavPaz wrote:
Tut. TUT!

ElephantBanjoGnome wrote:
Hmmm.

DavPaz wrote:
TUT!

Worst beatbox ever.
Author:  ElephantBanjoGnome [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 16:09 ]
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Dimrill wrote:
Here's my real thoughts on the subject matter

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.
Author:  Dimrill [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 16:12 ]
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Then stop calling me an anus, anus. :P

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.
Author:  Zardoz [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 16:13 ]
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I bet the prices will rise again when all the electricity runs out.
Author:  Grim... [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 16:19 ]
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Zardoz wrote:
I bet the prices will rise again when all the electricity runs out.

I liked you more when you were funny.
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 16:20 ]
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Grim... wrote:
Zardoz wrote:
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.
Author:  Grim... [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 16:21 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Grim... wrote:
Zardoz wrote:
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.
Author:  Dimrill [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 16:21 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Grim... wrote:
Zardoz wrote:
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 talked and spelled Welsh.
Author:  ElephantBanjoGnome [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 16:22 ]
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Dimrill wrote:
Then stop calling me an anus, anus.

Then stop talking jibberjabber in my thread :P
Author:  Grim... [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 16:22 ]
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Dimrill wrote:
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Grim... wrote:
Zardoz wrote:
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 talked and spelled Welsh.

I liked you more when you were best mates with CUS.
Author:  Dimrill [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 16:23 ]
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Grim... wrote:
Dimrill wrote:
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Grim... wrote:
Zardoz wrote:
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 talked and spelled Welsh.

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

I liked you more when myp didn't like you.
Author:  Grim... [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 16:24 ]
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ElephantBanjoGnome wrote:
Dimrill wrote:
Then stop calling me an anus, anus.

Then stop talking jibberjabber in my thread :P

I may have ruined that.

I liked you more when you were angry.
Author:  ElephantBanjoGnome [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 16:25 ]
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I never liked any of you. I only came here to flog you my retro games.
Author:  Zardoz [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 16:26 ]
Post subject:  Re: When did books become completely worthless?
Grim... wrote:
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Grim... wrote:
Zardoz wrote:
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've never liked any of you.
Author:  Zardoz [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 16:27 ]
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ffs...
Author:  Dimrill [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 16:27 ]
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And so another in-joke was born. Write that down in your copy books.
Author:  ElephantBanjoGnome [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 16:28 ]
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Zardoz wrote:
ffs...

I like you more now that you've been owned.
Author:  metalangel [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 16:28 ]
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Dimrill wrote:
And so another in-joke was born.


I'm not liking anything.
Author:  DavPaz [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 16:30 ]
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I liked you all more when I could lock threads.
Author:  Plissken [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 16:31 ]
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So did your mum.
Author:  Squirt [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 16:32 ]
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MR INJOKE FAVE
Author:  Curiosity [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 16:33 ]
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DavPaz wrote:
Tut. TUT!


What he said.
Author:  Dimrill [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 16:33 ]
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I just handbombed some product onto the loading plate.
Author:  DavPaz [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 16:35 ]
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Dimrill wrote:
I just handbombed some product onto the loading plate.

Dirty boy
Author:  Plissken [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 16:36 ]
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BOOKS!

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SIGNED!

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WARNING!

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Author:  Dimrill [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 16:37 ]
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See, that's worth something to another person called Mike.
Author:  metalangel [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 16:37 ]
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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.
Author:  ElephantBanjoGnome [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 16:39 ]
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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.
Author:  Grim... [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 16:40 ]
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metalangel wrote:
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 liked you more when I was in your in-jokes.
Author:  Plissken [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 16:41 ]
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Dimrill wrote:
See, that's worth something to another person called Mike.


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".
Author:  WTB [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 16:44 ]
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We have a generic reading thread you know, "Mike"?

SHEESH.
Author:  Grim... [ Thu Apr 12, 2012 16:44 ]
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I have signed books by Mick Foley and Mil Millington. Signed by the authors too, no less.
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