The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #164491 Message #3936952
Posted By: MikeL2
12-Jul-18 - 03:28 PM
Thread Name: BS: Passing books along
Subject: RE: BS: Passing books along
Hi
I always used to be buying books and built up a stack very quickly. One day while we were in Town we looked in one of the many Charity shops,
They had loads of books ( mainly paperbacks. ) I was not aware of this and when asking questions found that pretty all Charity shops did this.
So I gathered up a load of my stock and took them to a well known Charity shop.
I was told that they have too many books and wouldn't take them. None of the Charity shop wanted them.
During this time I had an eye problem that would take months to fix,
They adjusted my specs and it helped but not much, A friend told me he had the same problem for which he was advised to try a Kindle. It worked a treat. I managed to get rid of my books as I found the Kindle so good. I found a number of friends who had Kindles and we used to meet regularly and we " borrowed" books from each other. One guy came and put 1000 yes 1ooo books of all kinds many of which are my favourites. So now I have very few paper backs and a huge library free gratis. I do buy an occasional Kindle book that takes my fancy.
Solved my problem I now only use Kindle books even though my eye-sight is much better