![]() Though admittedly, it might be hard to find an interested charity. Beyond the obviously damaged, it's not unreasonable to give a charity right of refusal if they are interested (as opposed to just leaving heavy boxes on their doorstep unsolicited). I'm not minimizing the issue, it's very difficult (physically and emotionally) to get books moved from one place to another, I'm just saying it's possible to do it, and there are different ways and solutions available to people that might need to get their physical books out of their living space.Ĭertainly valid, but it's also true that one's man trash is another man's treasure. If someone can't handle the bulk and carrying of books, due to physical limitations, they can also use services like Got Junk? That was something I considered, but figured since I wasn't in a big hurry I could handle it myself. So it took a while, but it was pretty painless that way. ![]() Over the span of about a month I got all of the books out of the house. Every time I went out and about on errands and was going to be near a Half Price Books or Goodwill, I'd put one in the trunk of my car and take it to one of those places and sell/donate it. The Donate pile, I put into large Rubbermaid tubs, but I didn't fill them to the brim, just enough so that I could still carry them. I posted the Sell pile on eBay and sold those. I separated them out into those two piles. I did keep some books that I couldn't part with, but there weren't very many. that didn't have any sentimental value to me. Back when I had a bunch of physical books that I wanted to donate, what I did was separate them into two categories:ġ) Sell - These were books that were typically hardcover, limited edition, signed editions, etc. Books are heavy and bulky - another reason it’s wrong to shift your own deaccession issues onto another entity. And then the rest, which realistically will be most of them as used books have very little value in general, really are trash and should be viewed as such and recycled as possible (covers on hardcovers are not recyclable) and the remainder dumped. Then evaluate them closely for ones with intrinsic value, i.e., it would be worth it to another to buy/sell/keep it. ![]() In this particular case, it’s important to remove the “sacred” aspect to the notion of these books and view them for what they are, a commodity. Here, were the number of buttons is minimal anyway, perhaps AIReader is worth trying.Easier said than done, and also easier said than should be done, in many cases.Īs for the first, I’m pretty sure that my own public library hasn’t started accepting donations again yet.Īs for the second, there are too many instances of people passing along the valueless to a charity so the charity has the problem of disposing it. I tried it on T2 some time ago and buttons did not work, also the recent list was not available or not done the way I wanted - I don't remember now.Īnyway, the author of AIReader had no plans to add support for T1/T2 buttons so I stayed with CoolReader. I find this approach very convenient.Īnother question that was interesting to me: if the hardware buttons work not only for next/previous page in the book, but also in various settings with longer lists of choices.Īs to AIReader, I still read mostly on T2 (which has 5 hardware buttons and allows long and double press, so 15 buttons) It allows to go to the location of any book in the list (long tap and then the appropriate action), so I choose the closest to where I want to go. I usually use the list of recently opened books instead of the internal browser, though: ![]() You do see the folders where your books are? Because that was one of things I wanted to test: if folders on the external card are accessible. No, I think the internal file browser should show the books in all kinds of formats (except pdf).
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