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The comments in the past few days has reminded me about a discussion I had with somebody in regards to my books and magazines.  Should I get hit by a Mack truck, my family would toss them, not realizing how much some of them are worth.  And amazingly, some of the ones that look like they have no value---do.  For instance, there are some mass market trade paperbacks that are selling for some decent coin.  One of them is the following:
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Steffie Can't Come Out to Play (Amazon)
(I have this book---in very good condition)
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Depending on the condition of this book, "Steffie Can't Come Out to Play," it is going for up to three hundred dollars.  Another trade paperback that is also going for a high price is "Christiane F," which I also own.
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One of my co-workers loves to go through items and sell them, so I asked if he would be interested.  He's welcome to the profits, as long as he gives some of the books to the appropriate people as he goes along.  It's odd how book people get attached to their collection and want to see their "little family" go to the right people.
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One of my pet peeves is lending out books and not getting them back.  I read one of the biographies on Sylvia Plath and one of the women who was interviewed used, as a means to display Plath's neurotic conduct an example in which Plath had become angry over an incident involving underlined passages.  What had taken place was the following:  Sylvia Plath had lent a book to somebody.  She then returned it with several notations not only underscored but with notations in the margins.  The woman could not understand why Sylvia became angry.    Actually, that only shows the supreme entitlement and rudeness of the woman who borrowed the book.  I would never take it upon myself to underline anything in the book of another.   I would also be peeved if somebody were to deface my property.  I find it interesting that to this day, she hasn't clued in why it's not acceptable behaviour.  It's not a nice word, but honestly, some women earn that name that starts with a "C."  They work hard to get it, yet the mean girls plead ignorance of their conduct, don't they?
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I think somebody needs to start an adoption agency where people can send their books to make sure they find good homes in case "something happens."  There's others out there who would take them in.