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Dear Bookologist,
I'm new to this field but have always had an avid interest in old books, holding onto them when I acquired them and somehow zeroing in on them in various places, even when I wasn't out to find a book.
Anyway, just yesterday, while at the local recycling depot, I discovered that they are now accepting books for recycling. My partner and I spent almost 2 hours digging through a vast container of "dumped" books and came out with more than 20 titles dated before 1935 and a couple in the teens, one of which is a copy of Tagore's Fireflies, which I found on Abebooks for $190. Granted, there were five times as many books as this that were probably worthless, but there were no doubt others that we didn't take that a more experienced hunter would have snapped up.
So, you may want to add recycling depots and local landfills (our landfill has a "share shed" where reclaimable items are available for sale/trade rather than put into the landfill) to your resources list. They are an EXCELLENT place to look because you can get items for free or very little and feel somewhat like a saviour or preservationist. These books would otherwise be destroyed, and that is a bad thing.
Thanks for all the valuable info you have on your site. I've just read all the back issues of your ezine and learned lots! This is perhaps my first official day of being a bookhunter/seller/bookologist, and I have much to learn, but I think I may just switch professions!
Kera
Editor's reply:
This is a resource we probably never would've considered without being alerted to it. Kera lives in Canada, by the way, and we'd be interested to hear if any other readers have had success with this or other exotic types of book hunting before.
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