Amethyst
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How best to get rid of old books? Mr. A. has hundreds of old paperbacks, mostly mysteries from the 1950's -1980's, and a bunch of hard-cover political-science books dating from the Kennedy to Bush II Administrations. He is finally willing to part with them. OK, most of them. Well, some of them anyway...They are in good condition.
One possibility would be to use the books to build a fallout shelter in case North Korea nukes the U.S. (paper books are supposed to be great at stopping gamma radiation) but we prefer to get them out of the house. Neither of us can stomach just throwing them in the landfill. Giving them to our public library isn't an option - it doesn't even have room enough to stock books people WANT to read.
What to do?
Amethyst
One possibility would be to use the books to build a fallout shelter in case North Korea nukes the U.S. (paper books are supposed to be great at stopping gamma radiation) but we prefer to get them out of the house. Neither of us can stomach just throwing them in the landfill. Giving them to our public library isn't an option - it doesn't even have room enough to stock books people WANT to read.
What to do?
Amethyst