Attending a book sale

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If you were to go to a book sale, how would you prefer the books to be sorted - by subject or price? (i.e. all one subject type per box, or put all the same prices books in one box).
 

Why not both?

When I downsized several years ago, I moved from a 4-br house to a 1-br apartment. Almost everything had to go, including all but a few books in my home library plus the bookcases. I had a yard sale. I arranged the books by classification, but also, I set them up by price, left to right.

When the bookcases sold I still had a lot of books left, so I did have to sort them into boxes labeled with the classification; non-fiction/science, non-fiction/history, science fiction/fantasy, etc.; and the price. Cheapest box was $5, highest was $20. One of those contained a very desirable collection of Azimov novels; an extremely good bargain.
 
Make a large sign or two that says
Hardcover $2
Paperback $.50. 3 for $1
Special books marked individually.

(I haven’t a clue about actual prices now.)

Sort them by subject and whether hard or soft.

If you have those books that cost $20 but have a flexible cover, make sure they’re in the hard cover pile.

Then have special books in a separate area marked with an individual price.
 
Subject. My local Goodwill has a decently large book section and they do a good job at sorting the books into the right section. I look at the mysteries first for cozy mysteries and then the biography section. Sometimes I see a book out of place and put it in the right section.

I've only been to the Saturday library book sale a few times. I can't remember how well they sort the books.
 
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Here's another suggestion I got from another source - alphabetically by title, because if someone is looking for a spectific title, it will save them time. That never crossed my mind.

How about by author, in case someone is looking for a particular one. :rolleyes:
 
debodun said:
If you were to go to a book sale, how would you prefer the books to be sorted - by subject or price? (i.e. all one subject type per box, or put all the same prices books in one box).
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I go to every book sale I can, and I prefer them sorted by subject, then by author. It makes shopping so much easier. But I usually go to public libraries and thrift or secondhand stores and most of the books in those places are very inexpensive.
 
I've decided we don't have a problem getting rid of things. We keep everything including the sets of encyclopedias from the 80s. My house looks like it was stuck in time.
 
Everyone dumps encyclopedias from the 80's-90's at the library
and the director told me it's a headache! They are all trash!

I once bought a book at a library sale for $1.00 and sold it on-line
for $975.00. It was extremely rare.
 
We (the wife and I) no longer read paper books, just digital. Even so we’ve got several full book cases, some that I built back in the day. What to do? Donate to the local library? Then what with the empty shelves? A problem without a good solution, so for now I suppose it will be the statas quo.
 
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