What to Do if You Can’t Sell Your BooksĮven with a site like BigWords, some of your books just aren’t going to be worth the effort to sell online.

But unless you’ve got some rare first editions lying around, you’re unlikely to make a hefty profit. Depending on what you have in your library, you’ll probably make enough to offset the cost of replacing the paper versions with ebooks. Note: Manually entering book titles and editions into a spreadsheet or document can quickly get tedious.Įither way, don’t expect to make a huge sum off of your book collection.

If you’ve got a larger collection, you might consider an organizer like Delicious Library or MediaMan that lets you simply scan the barcode of each book to get its information onto your computer. I had almost a hundred that I wanted to lose, so I used a Google Docs spreadsheet to keep track of what was going where manually. If you have more than a dozen or so books to sell, you will probably want to use some sort of organizational tool to sort out what you plan to do with each title. As a result, you have to keep track of which books stay and which go, and where they’re all going to.ĭelicious Library collection organizerYou can’t find a one-size-fits-all service that will let you easily get rid of everything. To add even more complication, you’re unlikely to get the best price for all your books if you sell them to only one bookseller. I have signed copies and others that were given to me as gifts that I don’t want to part with for sentimental reasons. Almost no one really wants to get rid of all of them. It can be complicated to sort out what to do with each of your books.

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