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Re: Woman Donates Computer.....worth $200,000!

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In article <alpine.LNX.2.02.1506011028410.5057@darkstar.example.org>,
Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> wrote:
> 
> I bought a book about the Battle of the Bulge, the pages were falling out 
> as I finished, but for fifty cents or a dollar, I learned more than I 
> needed about that period.  I didnt' have to have the latest bestselling 
> history book about the battle.

Ah, but if you had bought the very latest revised edition you would
have learnt that everything in that old edition was wrong.  ;-)




> Some books shouldn't have been published, some were overpublished (I still 
> see copies of that Alvin Toffler book), but there are still plenty of 
> interesting books, that simply require the right person to come along. 
> That's often me (just like when the Rotary Club would have interesting 
> electronics at their "garage sale", I once got a circuit board for a few 
> dollars that was clearly an eprom programmer).  I'm less and less finding 
> such things at the sales, so they lose that money.

There's usually quite a few people buying lots of books - sometimes
they're greedy second-hand book shop owners who then resell them to
someone else at a hefty mark-up.




> On the other hand, I do understand how disappointing it can be to have a 
> sale and then lots left over.

Not so much the left-overs, but the ever increasing cost of everything
means they would have to start charging $5 and $10 per used book
(rather than the current $1 or $2) just to cover the venue hireage, so
make no profit for their charity.

One person in the local newspaper article also said they were getting
less books being donated because more people were buying ebooks
instead.

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Woman Donates Computer.....worth $200,000! Don <coach41@pacbell.net> - 2015-05-31 16:21 -0700
  Re: Woman Donates Computer.....worth $200,000! Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-05-31 22:37 -0400
    Re: Woman Donates Computer.....worth $200,000! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-06-01 16:23 +1200
      Re: Woman Donates Computer.....worth $200,000! Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2015-06-01 02:33 -0500
        Re: Woman Donates Computer.....worth $200,000! Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-06-01 10:36 -0400
          Re: Woman Donates Computer.....worth $200,000! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-06-02 09:24 +1200
        Re: Woman Donates Computer.....worth $200,000! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-06-02 09:19 +1200
      Re: Woman Donates Computer.....worth $200,000! Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> - 2015-06-01 11:22 +0000
        Re: Woman Donates Computer.....worth $200,000! Eric Rucker <bhtooefr@gmail.com> - 2015-06-01 05:20 -0700
        Re: Woman Donates Computer.....worth $200,000! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-06-02 09:27 +1200
      Re: Woman Donates Computer.....worth $200,000! Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-06-01 10:28 -0400
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          Re: Woman Donates Computer.....worth $200,000! Tom Porter <laseractiveguy@gmail.com> - 2015-06-01 17:20 -0700
            Re: Woman Donates Computer.....worth $200,000! Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> - 2015-06-02 02:37 +0200
              Re: Woman Donates Computer.....worth $200,000! Tom Porter <laseractiveguy@gmail.com> - 2015-06-01 17:45 -0700
              Re: Woman Donates Computer.....worth $200,000! Tom Porter <laseractiveguy@gmail.com> - 2015-06-01 17:54 -0700
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      Re: Woman Donates Computer.....worth $200,000! Denis Molony <denisbytezone@gmail.com> - 2015-06-07 17:28 -0700
      Re: Woman Donates Computer.....worth $200,000! K-K00L <K-K00L@nomail.com> - 2015-06-08 10:53 -0400
    Re: Woman Donates Computer.....worth $200,000! Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com> - 2015-06-01 07:55 -0400
      Re: Woman Donates Computer.....worth $200,000! Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-06-01 10:39 -0400
        Re: Woman Donates Computer.....worth $200,000! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-06-02 09:37 +1200
      Re: Woman Donates Computer.....worth $200,000! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-06-02 09:30 +1200
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    Re: Woman Donates Computer.....worth $200,000! Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2015-06-03 02:56 -0500
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