Books

When we first opened the store I would only take clean hard bound books. The reason for that was many of the books we would get would be dirty and very worn which also equals smelly. 

I didn't think books would be a big money spinner for us (and that proved to be true) so didn't want to deal with sorting out piles of unusable books. Since our books are scanned to the most popular ones selling on Amazon, we have a  very nice and current collection that we know people want. We can't compete with the library book sale  (which are starting back up) on price so decided to go for quality instead.  This past week we've had 100's of books donated that we can't use. Took a few hours to sort them out into what we would take (many had to be cleaned) and the rest put into brown paper bags so my volunteers could take them to the little libraries around town.

I was told the local library is going to open a book store, which I think is super good idea. Great way to make a little money and help recycle books people no longer want. Not sure how it will effect the store's donations but I think with the library being closed during COVID people realized how much they missed the services they do offer.