Selling My Books

Earlier this month, I moved back home with my parents. During my four years of college, I obtained a lot of new possessions. I have been a huge fan of books my whole life but I only have one bookshelf in my room and no space for another one. This meant that I had to rearrange my bookshelf and either find a new place for my old books or get rid of them. I decided to get rid of my books simply because there wasn't really anywhere else to put them.

At first, I considered donating them to the library but then I decided that I wanted to sell them. I have never sold a book before so I had to do some Googling. I felt that Ebay would have been a lot of work, especially for the amount of money books were selling for. Then I remembered that there was a Half Price Books in my town that I still haven't visited yet. So I put all the books that I wanted to sell in a box and headed over to their store. When I got there, another lady had just recently dropped off her stuff and I was told that it would take longer than usual to get a price estimate on my books. I browsed the store while I waited, which ended up being around 45 minutes. For all 44 of my books, I only got a mere $12.25 back. That's not even 28 cents back per book, which is ridiculously little. I think I would have been more more satisfied if I had donated them instead. I definitely won't be going back to Half Price Books.

It's been almost a week since I've sold my books and I still haven't stopped regretting my choice. Especially since I've been watching bookshelf tour videos on YouTube because now I wish I had kept all my books for my collection. Oh well, the only thing I can do is learn from this experience.