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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Ask me about weirdos in public libraries!
 
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ExcessBLarg!
Sep 1, 2001
 This is kind of dumb, but I'm curious:

I was at our library the other day with my kids. We were looking through their children's picture books section which is mostly sorted alpha by author, but I noticed that the Pete the Cat books were under "Pete". I would've assumed they'd be listed under (James) Dean? Is this not because some of the books were authored by Eric Litwin (although I think Dean has always been first author?). Or is it just because kids look up "Pete" the Cat or something?

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ExcessBLarg!
Sep 1, 2001
 In my experience Half Price Books will take all your outdated, niche-interest textbooks and such. You won't actually get value of out them, but you at least don't have to pay for them to get recycled.

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ExcessBLarg!
Sep 1, 2001

Leperflesh posted:

that said, why would you have to pay to recycle paper and cardboard? you can just put it in the blue bin
Some municipalities have pretty strict refuse service and it's actually quite difficult to rid yourself of volumes of books (and other stuff). Last time we did a basement clean out I had to rent a dumpster for $500 and at least being able to offload all the published textbooks I had to Half Price meant I didn't have to pay any surcharges on the dumpster.

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Ask me about weirdos in public libraries!