Cool Old Books Backlog, Part 1

I wish I'd been able to come into the thrift store after it closed on March 20 and work alone, sorting the Cool Old Book backlog--books I set aside to look up and either sell on eBay or display in our glass case.

(If I had a car, and space to work on piles of books, I'd have hauled them home. But I have neither.)

Even with staff working in the closed store the past couple months, what with the huge mess after being broken into, I've not had time for books. The past couple days I've worked hard simply to get my books section in order, and restocked.

With the store opening tomorrow (yay!), I'm sure not going to get to the backlog now.
Except for the few books I'm sure are worth a lot, I'm going to plunk them all on the Cool Old Books shelves at $1.99/each.

If they find good homes, that's what I care about.

I'd like to make money for the store too. But unless a book sells for more than $30––and few of these would––it's not worth my paid-time to list it online.

(I'd suggested to management that I list books on my own time, and split the proceeds, but they did not go for that.)

What would really be fun would be to package them in sets––e.g., Books with Embossed Covers––as I see some sellers do--mostly on Etsy.
But realistically, that's not going to happen.

We do get book resellers, but they're the kind that scan every book with an app. This doesn't apply books without ISBNs, (or I'd do it too), so the old books tend to get bought by people who WANT them for themselves.
Which makes me happy.
And if they resell them, good luck to them too!

Anyway, here's a glimpse of the book backlog I snapped quickly before leaving work yesterday.

Ergh--not used to the new blogger, I lost a bunch of photos as I was trying to resize them. Trying to reload them...

Ay ay ay!!!
This is not working well.