Rmtexposed

I am looking to purchase antique books these days. If the price is right I am thinking about doing this for a living. Selling old books that is. All I need is some more books and a place to sell them.

The thrift store I work in are moving and thus all the books will be destroyed. I guess thats what happens when you have someone in charge that doesn’t know what he is doing. The result of his incompetence is that nobody delivers old books to the store anymore. And it will be fun seeing how well he manages to run the new book department when nobody delivers books for him to sell.

The other day I got some rare childrens books by Turid Balke and Anne Cath Westly. These are in good shape, and I might sell them later on.

Until next time

Damiende

Next week I have an appointment with a book trader that might buy some of my books.  It will be interesting to see how much I can get for some of them. I have a few books that are worth at least 100 dollars each. So hopefully I might get some cash towards a new camera.

As some of you might notice the blog has a few bugs today. I installed the latest version of wordpress and all tough every thing went pretty smooth, some bugs has been spotted. Hopefully these will be terminated quickly. I am also looking into changing the theme, but I haven’t found one that I like.

Until next time

Damiende

Collecting books is a fun hobby, that takes up lots of space. During the weekend I got 5 boxes full of old books. I got a few gems, amongst them a few old bibles. One of the bibles are from 1821 and one from 1876. I also found some poetry and a cook book, that brings the total number of cookbooks I have up to 12. A long way to go before I beat the Norwegian journalist that has over 5000 of them.

Tomorrow I have to hunt for some new book shelfs. I think two new ones should  be enough for now. At least for a couple of weeks. During the next 3 weeks I have 5 different book collections to check out. I am seriously running out of space. So next week I might take a trip to a book store that sells antique books, and sell some of them.  I have to do it. Otherwise I’ll run out of space.

Until next time

Damiende

I am one of those that likes to collect stuff.

And the collection I’m most proud of is my collection of books. I have more then 400 books in my collection. Ranging from Crime to biographies. The oldest book in my collection is a bible from 1876. I also have a few cookbooks from the same era. The cookbooks are my favorites, I enjoy reading them from time to time. It’s interesting to see how some things never change when it comes to cooking. It’s also fun to see how things have changed over the years. I have been reading books all my life.  And I have read almost every book in my collection. Some of them I have read more then once. Carl Hiaasen is one of my favorite authors today. Along with Ingvar Ambjørnsen.  I have read all of Carl Hiaasens books several times. The same goes for the books of Ingvar Ambjørnsen. Most of the time I read two or three books at the same time.

I recently started to work in a thrift store. And I am disgusted at how they treat things. Books that are not sold are being destroyed. Same thing goes for furniture that doesn’t get sold. I hate to see old things destroyed because others say it’s worthless. The irony is that most of the books that get destroyed. Gets destroyed because those pricing them, are pricing them to high. Another thing that’s amazing actually is that they destroy bibles. Yepp you heard me, the thrift store is a part of the Salvation army. And they destroy bibles that don’t sell.

I think that destroying a book that’s complete are really stupid. You don’t destroy books. Unless they are in a bad bad shape. If it’s of no value for you it’s of value for someone else.

Another thing about collecting stuff is space. Besides books I collect cameras and other stuff. Recently I got myself a old cash register. It got a few dents in it. And some buttons are missing. But it works, and since I got it for free I took it. Only problem is I am running out of space. So I might have to move soon, to a bigger place.

Until next time

Damiende