Book Mobile??

[The Lady of Shadows]

okay. here's the deal. i have an entire library of non-sk books here. i have been going through them slowly (v-e-r-y-s-l-o-w-l-y) and deciding what i'm going to keep and what i'm going to take to the half price bookstore and sell.

so, is anyone interested in starting a revolving library of sorts of non-sk books? we could each make a list of what we have and post it here. then we could trade books back and forth, paying the postage ourselves (ex. i have XXXXXXX and mail it to YYYYYYY who mails me XXXXXXX). we could agree up front that all books would be shipped a specific way. i could do the research to find out how much it costs to post the average book in the us and across the pond (i've always wanted to say that!).

so what do you think? has anyone else suggested this? do you think it's a horrible idea and i should just crawl back into my shell?

i await your responses with bated breath.

p.s. i just created my very first topic with jean's help! :excited: thanks jean!


PaperBacks


Best American Mystery Stories of the Century -- Tony Hillerman, Editor
Best American Non-Required Reading 2003 -- Dave Eggers, Editor
Best American Mystery Stories 2005 -- Joyce Carol Oates, Editor
Best American Short Stories 2005 -- Michael Chabon, Editor
Best American Non-Required Reading 2005 -- Dave Eggers, Editor
Best American Non-Required Reading 2006 -- Dave Eggers, Editor
Best American Short Stories 2006 -- Ann Patchett, Editor
Best American Mystery Stories 2006 -- Scott Turow, Editor
Best American Mystery Stories 2007 -- Carl Hiaasen, Editor
Best American Non-Required Reading 2007 -- Dave Eggers, Editor
Pompeii -- Robert Harris
Lullabies for Little Criminals -- Heather O'Neill
Like A Charm, A Novel In Voices -- Karin Slaughter, Editor
How We Are Hungry -- Dave Eggers
The Eight -- Katherine Neville
Because They Wanted To -- Mary Gaitskill
The Polysyllabic Spree -- Nick Hornby
Dogs of Truth -- Kit Reed
A Long Way Down -- Nick Hornby
Death do us Part -- Harlan Coben, Editor
Carpe Demon -- Julie Kenner
California Demon -- Julie Kenner
Salem Falls -- Jodi Picoult
Perfect Match -- Jodi Picoult
Nocturnes -- John Connolly
New Dreams for Old -- Mike Resnick
The Diviners -- Rick Moody
Crime deCocoa -- JoAnna Carl
You've Got To Read This -- Ron Hansen & Jim Shepard, Editors
The Interpretation of Murder -- Jed Rubenfeld
The Descent -- Jeff Long
The Ruins -- Scott Smith
Confessions of a Falling Woman -- Debra Dean
The Way The Crow Flies -- Ann-Marie MacDonald
Nightshade -- Robert Phillips, Editor
Hour of the Cat -- Peter Quinn
Benighted -- Kit Whitfield
The Preservationist -- David Maine
Sinister Shorts -- Perri O'Shaughnessy
The Female of the Species -- Joyce Carol Oates
The Reason I Won't Be Coming -- Elliot Perlman
The Vintage Book of Amnesia -- Jonathan Lethem, Editor
Saving Fish From Drowning -- Amy Tan
Before You Know Kindness -- Chris Bohjalian
Speaking With The Angel -- Nick Hornby, Editor
This Life She's Chosen -- Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum
Mammoth Book of Best New Terror -- Stephen Jones, Editor
Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 15 -- Stephen Jones, Editor
Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 16 -- Stephen Jones, Editor
Possible Side Effects -- Augusten Burroughs
Beautiful Lies -- Lisa Unger
Dark Rivers of the Heart -- Dean Koontz
The Emperor of Ocean Park -- Stephen L. Carter
The Magician's Guild -- Trudi Canavan
The Novice -- Trudi Canavan
The High Lord -- Trudi Canavan
Blindness -- Jose Saramago
The Bright Forever -- Lee Martin
The Shell Collector -- Anthony Doeer
Case Histories -- Kate Atkinson
The Keeper -- Sarah Langan
The Collection -- Bentley Little
Jack Knife -- Virginia Baker
Shadowland -- Peter Straub
Floating Dragon -- Peter Straub
Prior Bad Acts -- Tami Hoag
The Adventures of Augie March -- Saul Bellow
Snow -- Orhan Pamuk
The Name of The Rose -- Umberto Eco



HardBacks

Creature Cozies -- Jill M. Morgan, Editor
The Book of Lost Things -- John Connolly
Human Traces -- Sebastian Faulks
More Twisted -- Jeffery Deaver
Dangerous Women -- Otto Penzler, Editor
True Evil -- Greg Iles
A Spot of Bother -- Mark Haddon
The Meaning of Night -- Michael Cox
Strange Candy -- Laurell K. Hamilton
The Roald Dahl Omnibus -- Barnes & Noble Edition
Marley & Me -- John Grogan
Nothing That Meets The Eye -- Patricia Highsmith
The Distant Echo -- Val McDermid
House of Meetings -- Martin Amis
The Devil You Know -- Mike Carey
The Book of the Dead -- Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
Cat Crimes I,II, & III (one volume) -- Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Editors
Horrors! 365 Scary Stories -- Dziemianowicz, Weinberg & Greenberg, Editors
In The Hand of Dante -- Nick Tosches



mia/susannah's books

The Dead Zone, SK, 2 paperbacks
Through the Window, Diane Fanning, paperback
Devila's Knot, Mara Leveritt, Hardcover
Velocity, Dean Koontz, 2 paperback
From the Corner of his Eye, Koontz, paperback
Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls, paperback
Blood Lines, William Burkett, JR, paperback
My Lady's Champion, Claire Delacroix, paperback
An Accidental Woman, Barbara Delinsky, Hardcover
Violets are Blue, James Patterson, hardcover
The Return, Bentley Little, hardcover
Starting Over, Robin Pilcher, hardcover

[Jean]

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great! I've deleted our off-topic posts from that thread, don't worry

[Darkthoughts]

I like it. People who have read the book could also sign it before they post it onto the next person, so it becomes TDT.com memorabilia :thumbsup:

[The Lady of Shadows]

jean - thanks for taking care of those other posts for me/us. and for pointing me in the right direction. you rock! :rock:

darkthoughts - that is a fantastic idea!!!!!!! :idea: i never even thought of having each person sign the book that they borrow. we could sign with our username or our real name (if that's how people here know us). when the book finally makes it back to the original owner for good (if it ever does, some books are just popular that way) it would be a real piece of history wouldn't it? imagine, having a copy of something in the big give signed by a dozen or more (19 maybe??) TDT members.
:clap: :excited: :clap:

[Jean]

turtlesong: welcome! I am happy to have assisted at the birth of the idea, which seems to me magnificent, not only pragmatically beneficial and humanely touching, but also very very appropriate to our community, somehow expressing its very soul just as well as those great drawings do, or the postcard-sending tradition, or the Palaver Castle (you're very welcome there, by the way http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/bear_wink-1.gif).
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I dearly hope I will be able to participate, maybe sometimes, although, alas, not as frequently as others, due to that ungodly distance (Russia is too far from everywhere, I'm afraid http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/bear_sad.gif)

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[Darkthoughts]

:D With some books you get quite a few blank pages before and after the actual story...we could even leave a little message or whatever ;)

Ok, well I've read We Need To Talk About Kevin, so I'll put another book up for grabs:

The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Postage can maybe be at each members discretion, ie I never insure my parcels (when sending paperback trade editions) and usually go for the cheapest mailing option - but y'know, people can decide how they want to do it.

Then I guess, once someones finished with a book they can come in here and maybe recommend/review/rate it and put it up for grabs to the next reader.

[The Lady of Shadows]

hmmm. well i'm gonna have to go through a few boxes here and see what i can pull out to put on offer. that way people can have a choice of many. i just love books.

oh, and jean. i'd happily ship a book or two to russia! it may take a little bit to get there but i'm sure you could wait. those would just be our stealth books. :ninja:

[mia/susannah]

That sounds like a great idea. I have a bag of books that I was going to take to the library. I will go through and post them. Maybe someone would like to read them. I would like to have a book signed by the members of TDT.com! That would be great

[Jean]

oh, and jean. i'd happily ship a book or two to russia! it may take a little bit to get there but i'm sure you could wait. those would just be our stealth books. :ninja:
thank you! I hope maybe soon something will change for the better, and books could actually arrive here without getting stolen along the way; now it's all done via my London friends, and is really complicated
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[alinda]

I love Mrs F. please give her a squeeze from me?
This is a perfectly wonderful idea by the way.
I have many paperbacks that wouldnt mind
traveling the world bringing joy, kind of like
missionary work by books! :D


PALAVER LIBRARY GOES GLOBAL!!!!

[alinda]

Wow, Thats quite a list, I will attemt to make a list of my own now to offer
to the cause, this sounds like it will a great idea for alot of folken!
I can only offer paperbacks at this point, as my library is in a growth stage
( buying hardcovers to replace many of the paperbacks)
Also, untill recently I never had any animals in my house but my MOM has a doggie, and I dont smoke in this house but my books have been in a smoking house for many years. :cool:

[John Blaze]

this sounds great, and I already have a book I want to borrow!

When I get home I will list my books I wouldn't mind parting with.

[Míchéal]

This is a fantastic idea.

[mia/susannah]

I will try a make a list of books that I have as well. This will be great

[Ruthful]

I like this idea.

The last hardcover book I attempted to mail-it was eventually returned-cost me over ten dollars in postage, and that was domestically.I imagine it would have been prohibitively expensive to send it overseas. I still think this could work on an individual basis. Very interesting concept, Turtlesnog.

[John Blaze]

i hate Media Mail though, it sucks balls big time.

[Erin]

This is a fantastic idea!

[Jean]

my only caveat is that jean get first dibs b/c of the whole russia thing (please see http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?t=3008 for details)
thank you love! there's a lot of books I would love to borrow, but I will have to wait till I have tested the way to send things here and from here (looks like it is slowly becoming more and more feasible); can someone offer a way to do so without risking such valuable things as books or postcards? (I don't mean intrinsic value, as everyone understands)

[Brice]

my only caveat is that jean get first dibs b/c of the whole russia thing (please see http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?t=3008 for details)
thank you love! there's a lot of books I would love to borrow, but I will have to wait till I have tested the way to send things here and from here (looks like it is slowly becoming more and more feasible); can someone offer a way to do so without risking such valuable things as books or postcards? (I don't mean intrinsic value, as everyone understands)

The only way to ever know is to try. Send me an address there. I'll send a short postcard. I'll send a duplicate to Alexander's also in case it gets lost. That way you'd lose nothing if it didn't get to the Russian address because you'd have an exact copy waiting at Alexander's place. It would be an inexpensive way to test it.

[John Blaze]

good idea Brice! :thumbsup:

[Brice]

;)

[Jean]

a great idea! let's start testing when I'm back; it's my mother's address that I am going to use (self and wife living in the universe mostly, without real address), and I got to learn all the details, such as code or whatever it is called

[Brice]

Okay! Just send an address when you are ready. I'll be eagerly waiting. :D

[LadyHitchhiker]

I wouldn't mind participating but unfortunately my amount of books that are not SK or star trek related are very limited.... But I will see what I have that's in okay condition to share... :D

[Brice]

The bulk of my library is in storage. It could be some time before I could join in this.

[Aaron]

Wow, great idea. This is actually extremely similar to an idea I have been toying with for a bit. Very cool. :cool:

[Matt]

I like it too, the current list should be posted in the first thread I think.

Signing them is going to be cool as hell

[The Lady of Shadows]

okay, just to make this clear as regards my list:

jean - any books you want from my list are yours to keep. these books were going to find a new home at the used bookstore anyway so don't worry about sending them back. you tell me the names of the books, give me a safe place to ship them, and they are yours. no questions, no problems, no worries. :huglove:

matt - that's a good idea about putting the list in the first message. i'll do that asap.

everyone else - with the exception of the books that jean takes (i'll remove those from my list), when/if you "borrow" a book, if you'd like i'll put your name beside it so people will know when a book is unavailable for borrowing; and it might be cool to see what other people are reading. if that's tmi, i will just put a cool little thingy beside it so everyone knows it's out. oh, and don't worry about my list getting too short, the list i've posted so far only contains about 1/2 of the books i was going to recycle (step one: admit you have a problem. hi, i'm turtlesong and i'm a book addict).

[Patrick]

Great idea, Turtlesong. Thanks for taking the lead on implementing it as well. :thumbsup:

[Jean]

love, can I please have the Cat's Cradle, by Vonnegut?
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and that'll be it, because bears, too, have conscience (however ursine)
(luckily they have The Name of the Rose, too... or conscience would have fallen in that battle)

[Patrick]

Good choice, Jean. Vonnegut rocks.

[The Lady of Shadows]

okay. why did book show up in red in my last post?

edit: and now it's not. i think my browser is screwing with me. :scared:

[mia/susannah]

Turtlesong, that has happened to me as well. It is not your browser

[The Lady of Shadows]

idk, the way things were going last night it was probably one of the old ones telling me to get the hell out of here. :)

after the red word fiasco, i keep getting messages that i wasn't allowed to go to this page, that page, do this, do that. i pm'd matt cause i thought i had done something wrong and been banned or blocked somehow.

matt said i was okay (well, okay from a mb standpoint anyway :lol: ). i'm pretty sure it was a loop from hell because i was using the advanced edit function in photobucket at the same time and it kept crashing internet explorer. goddamn photobucket. (*wanders off mumbling to herself*).

[stboling]

I would love to do this. I have a ton of books that have been relegated to my storage unit as there is no where else to put them. I would be happy to part with them.

[alinda]

Just a word off topic if I may, The red words do appear
from time to time, its not you. It seems that words included in the title
of the thread are affected. Matt and I have also discussed this phenomenon
and it is bizzare, but I repeat it is not you....Matt has your research shown
you any reasons for this happening?

[mia/susannah]

I have a small list of books right now if anyone is interested in borrowing or just having. I have alot more but still hane to get them together.

The Dead Zone, SK, 2 paperbacks
Through the Window, Diane Fanning, paperback
Devila's Knot, Mara Leveritt, Hardcover
Velocity, Dean Koontz, 2 paperback
From the Corner of his Eye, Koontz, paperback
Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls, paperback
Blood Lines, William Burkett, JR, paperback
My Lady's Champion, Claire Delacroix, paperback
An Accidental Woman, Barbara Delinsky, Hardcover
Violets are Blue, James Patterson, hardcover
The Return, Bentley Little, hardcover
Starting Over, Robin Pilcher, hardcover

[The Lady of Shadows]

I would love to do this. I have a ton of books that have been relegated to my storage unit as there is no where else to put them. I would be happy to part with them.

well, make a list (and check it twice hehehe) and post it here. then wait for greedy little readers to want to borrow them. :lol: you do get them back though, so don't think we're doing you any big favors. except that you'll have lots of tdt.com signed books. :)


I have a small list of books right now if anyone is interested in borrowing or just having. I have alot more but still hane to get them together. <snip?

what did you think of bentley little's the return? i've been thinking about reading it.

[mia/susannah]

Trutlesong, to tell the truth, I have not read it. My daughter read it, she don't like horror but she said it was pretty good. If you would like to borrow it, pm me your address and I will send it to you

[stboling]

I'll go out in my storage unit today when I get a chance and drag out some boxes. Then I'll put at least a partial list on here. I don't know why I save so many books. I guess I think maybe I'll read them again eventually. Which I normally don't unless they are really good. I love my local library cuz' they have books 4 sale that people donate, only $1 for pb and $2 hc. And a lot of the time I find books that just came out. It's great.

[Matt]

I can't wait to see what you have Sarah.

Turns out the "red word" thing is the result of searching. If you perform a search on the MB, it returns the word you searched for in red.

At least, that's where I am with it now. :lol:

[Woofer]

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[razz]

http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/fail-book-rental1.jpg
isn't that kind what a library is?

[The Lady of Shadows]

damn, you mean i could be charging you people? :lol:

[razz]

yeah, and Gilmore Girls could be...um...not canceled

[The Lady of Shadows]

what in the name of the turtle is a gilmore girl??

[razz]

don't ask. trust me. thank god it's canceled.

[BillyxRansom]

I got about 250 pages in on this volume, but then my friend suddenly HAD to have it back asap. SO I could not finish it!


SOOOOOOO my question is......

Does anyone have a second copy or their own copy lying around that they don't need anymore please I would be very grateful please and thank you

Yes, run on sentence intentional. But it's because there are some people that I am sure would be like R U KRAZEE.

But but..! I'm desperate! :(

And anyway, I know some of you said this was your least favorite, SO you cooould bear to part with it. Amirite!?

Anyone?

Say thankya!

[Jean]

that's a horrible problem - the best book of the series left unread - that I hope will remind us of that great t/song's idea, Book Mobile (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?t=3007).

[Jean]

bump

it's a very good idea, let's not let it die

[LadyHitchhiker]

Book mobile is awesome...

[razz]

yeah. i have a shitload of Dean Koontz.
:arg:
if anyone's interested, i'll mail them too you. when your done, keep em.

[BillyxRansom]

I need WotC :( but this is a non-SK deal. :(


And I don't have any money even for shipping.



:(:(:(:(

[BillyxRansom]

i totally forgot about that "video rental store but for books" thing. i can't believe there are people THAT dumb.

[BillyxRansom]

That thread seems to be for non-SK books.



:(:(:(

[BillyxRansom]

also, lol @ the fact that i said "bear to part" and the first one to reply is BEARS!

[The Lady of Shadows]

i'm sure someone has a copy of WotC. worse case scenario, i'll go to the half price book store
and find you a used copy in paperback. okay? and don't worry about the shipping.
just think of me as your dealer. :evil:

[The Lady of Shadows]

don't worry dear, i'm going to have you covered. i'll visit the halfprice book store this weekend to find you a nice loved paperback and send it to you. just don't tell anyone. i have an image to maintain. wouldn't want anyone thinking i'm nice now would we? :shoot:

[Woofer]

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I know there were several on turtlesong's list that caught my eye, but I can't remember what they were and the list is gone.

razz, do you have the Odd Thomas books? I only have Odd Thomas and Forever Odd. I'd like to read the other two.

I'm afraid that I don't have anything to put on the list just yet, unless anyone wants copies of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, because I donated them to the local rescue mission. I'm sure I have more, but it's a matter of digging them out of storage.

[Jean]

BillyxRansom: sorry, I've been an idiot, I forgot!!! want a full text file?

[BillyxRansom]

BillyxRansom: sorry, I've been an idiot, I forgot!!! want a full text file?

YES! Thank you. :huglove::huglove::huglove::huglove::huglove:

And you aren't an idiot!

Also, sorry about the quadruple post!


Also, turtlesong, yes! I don't know who is sending what! I don't... AHH! So much niceness, I don't want to offend anyone!

[gsvec]

I have a bunch of SK books in .pdf (Adobe Reader) and MSReader format (but, alas, none of the DTs), so if anyone's interested, I can email files - just PM me or post here!

[The Lady of Shadows]

i have re-added my list of books to the very first post in the thread. i will add mia/susannah's list as well (but she's been in and out so don't look to her for books for awhile, okay?).

as people add books i will add them to the first post that way they are all in one place.

BillyxRansom - so shall i still send a paperback of wolves to you? pm me and let me know. it won't be until tuesday though (holiday weekend and all).

and jean - thanks for reviving this. :huglove:

[razz]

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I know there were several on turtlesong's list that caught my eye, but I can't remember what they were and the list is gone.

razz, do you have the Odd Thomas books? I only have Odd Thomas and Forever Odd. I'd like to read the other two.

I'm afraid that I don't have anything to put on the list just yet, unless anyone wants copies of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, because I donated them to the local rescue mission. I'm sure I have more, but it's a matter of digging them out of storage.
i may have Brother Odd. I'm not sure. but i know for a fact i don't have Odd hours.. sorry.

[BillyxRansom]

BillyxRansom: sorry, I've been an idiot, I forgot!!! want a full text file?

YES! Thank you. :huglove::huglove::huglove::huglove::huglove:

And you aren't an idiot!

Also, sorry about the quadruple post!


Also, turtlesong, yes! I don't know who is sending what! I don't... AHH! So much niceness, I don't want to offend anyone!
So it turns out that this would be the better offer. Turtlesong has had no luck in finding what I craveeeeeee!

Thank you in advance. :):)

[Jean]

you mean, you didn't get my email????? I send it to you ten days ago!

[Brice]

Whenever I get my finances settled I have a long list of books I'd be willing to share. I have enough I could open a small bookstore. At the moment though I still have several I already need to mail. Soon hopefully I can share some books. :)