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[quote=Anonymous]There may be treasure in those books and not just monetary treasure.

Two stories:

1. I have an acquaintance that owns a book store and he related to me that he was able to convert a $500 estate sale book collection (7 books) into $250K worth of book sales/trades over a 6 month period of time. He started with low dollar trades using his personal list of contacts in North America and Europe to repeatedly sell and trade from his estate sale starting point in order to get a couple of very valuable sales at the end. The initial sales were for several hundred then it bumped up to 7/8K then a series of 25K book sales/trades and the last one was around 50K and when it was said and done he had a couple left over that he put in his store. He said that it made his year. These books were old bibles, prayer books, Hymnals, and the likes. Not all old books have market value.

2. I personally have a couple of old history books (early 1900s) and a few old math books (1800s). The history books in particular were eye opening to me in that they provide a perspective on how people though at the time which doesn't align with the modern narrative that people today project onto people of that era. These books are not valuable except that when I found then it brought into sharp focus that modern education is revisionist, watered down, and agenda driven. If you want to know something it is better to get it from the original source than to merely believe a 3 or 4th hand source.

On a final note, I have about 24 linear feat of books that consumes 4 book shelves. They are mostly science (math/physics/engineering) books which I use periodically as reference materials. My wife occasionally suggests that I throw them away. She sees no value in the books. She gets her information from YouTube and social media. Our local library is almost exclusively children's fiction and romance novels.

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