But, as the poll suggests, if you make any move to recycle them, the O/T Collective will hunt you down and end you.
Decluttering the house - Getting rid of book collections
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Re: Decluttering the house - Getting rid of book collections
One daft idea if it's really just about lack of space is to have 'picture rail' bookshelves in a few rooms. (I'm talking about a single shelf just below the coving running right around any free areas on walls. - If you're looking for minimalist/modern it'd not work, but you could easily find a home for 1,000+ books in an area we seldom use.
But, as the poll suggests, if you make any move to recycle them, the O/T Collective will hunt you down and end you.
But, as the poll suggests, if you make any move to recycle them, the O/T Collective will hunt you down and end you.
“Man, my poor head is battered,” Ed said.
“That explains its unusual shape,” Styanar said, grinning openly now. “Although it does little to illuminate just why your jowls are so flaccid or why you have quite so many chins.”
“I…” Had she just called him fat? “I am just a different species, that’s all.”
“Well nature sure does have a sense of humour then,” Styanar said. “Shall we go inside? It’d not be a good idea for me to be spotted by others.”
“That explains its unusual shape,” Styanar said, grinning openly now. “Although it does little to illuminate just why your jowls are so flaccid or why you have quite so many chins.”
“I…” Had she just called him fat? “I am just a different species, that’s all.”
“Well nature sure does have a sense of humour then,” Styanar said. “Shall we go inside? It’d not be a good idea for me to be spotted by others.”
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Hey that's coolSorkvild wrote: ↑Fri, 23. Aug 19, 19:20Recently I donated a large cardboard full of sci-fi, fantasy and some history books to... local penitentiary.
I made a call to their office and then I got in touch with one of penitentiary educators. He told me they are accepting book from private people, but their main source are stocks from liquidated libraries and educational facilities. Then he asked me what books, I explained and he replied that is fine unless the book are about violence. Next week I drove there, left my package, signed the paper about donation. Later on the educator called me and expressed gratitude and after his staff review and checks all books made their way to the penitentiary library.
I think I've just butchered what they are called. RegisterMe I think referred to the same thing, by "book swap shelves".exogenesis wrote: ↑Sat, 24. Aug 19, 10:34Fiksal, what's a reading 'reading box' ?,
don't think we have them in the UK, is it a common thing in the USA ?
But I dont actually know what they are called.... book sharing boxes? It's a square box, with a glass door, sits on a pole. Usually people around the neighborhood drop random books in there and take some to read.
You probably have them...what do you call them?
At least SQL doesnt age. HTML maybe as introductary book will work. Java book is probably outdated if it's not 5+ version.exogenesis wrote: ↑Sat, 24. Aug 19, 10:34I guess local schools might be interested in all my oldish heavy 'tomes' like VRML, HTML, Java, SQL etc,
might be a bit old hat now though.
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I'm sure I've a book lying around about CP/M, and I pray to god you've never heard of it, or it means you're closing in on an appointment with a mortician...
“Man, my poor head is battered,” Ed said.
“That explains its unusual shape,” Styanar said, grinning openly now. “Although it does little to illuminate just why your jowls are so flaccid or why you have quite so many chins.”
“I…” Had she just called him fat? “I am just a different species, that’s all.”
“Well nature sure does have a sense of humour then,” Styanar said. “Shall we go inside? It’d not be a good idea for me to be spotted by others.”
“That explains its unusual shape,” Styanar said, grinning openly now. “Although it does little to illuminate just why your jowls are so flaccid or why you have quite so many chins.”
“I…” Had she just called him fat? “I am just a different species, that’s all.”
“Well nature sure does have a sense of humour then,” Styanar said. “Shall we go inside? It’d not be a good idea for me to be spotted by others.”
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Gee, thanks, I've heard of CP/M and I'm only 49...wasn't expecting to be having my visit from the Grim Reaper just yet.
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When I was in school the class computer used CP/M. This says more about the state of funding of schools at the time than it does
about my age
If you want to feel really old look up CESIL.
My elder brother was forced to write "code" in that crap in computer class.
For those who value their sanity and would I rather i just tell you, it was an invented language designed to teach assembly language.
Like many invented languages it was far harder to use than any real assembly language because it had a ridiculously restricted
instruction set.
about my age
If you want to feel really old look up CESIL.
My elder brother was forced to write "code" in that crap in computer class.
For those who value their sanity and would I rather i just tell you, it was an invented language designed to teach assembly language.
Like many invented languages it was far harder to use than any real assembly language because it had a ridiculously restricted
instruction set.
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Another vote for "give them to charity" here.
There's an RNLI shop here that I often give stuff to. And I generally come away with more books
I spotted one called "The splendour that was Egypt" once. Nearly bought it then realised I'd given it to them in the first place
There's an RNLI shop here that I often give stuff to. And I generally come away with more books
I spotted one called "The splendour that was Egypt" once. Nearly bought it then realised I'd given it to them in the first place
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I'm sure they were 49 glorious years, and we'll all remember you fondly.
*Checks death announcements for people of note thread*
“Man, my poor head is battered,” Ed said.
“That explains its unusual shape,” Styanar said, grinning openly now. “Although it does little to illuminate just why your jowls are so flaccid or why you have quite so many chins.”
“I…” Had she just called him fat? “I am just a different species, that’s all.”
“Well nature sure does have a sense of humour then,” Styanar said. “Shall we go inside? It’d not be a good idea for me to be spotted by others.”
“That explains its unusual shape,” Styanar said, grinning openly now. “Although it does little to illuminate just why your jowls are so flaccid or why you have quite so many chins.”
“I…” Had she just called him fat? “I am just a different species, that’s all.”
“Well nature sure does have a sense of humour then,” Styanar said. “Shall we go inside? It’d not be a good idea for me to be spotted by others.”
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I think it was my 4th / 5th computer that had CP/M available on it. - An Amstrad 6128 or something like that. - Even then, I think it was a legacy from bygone days...brucewarren wrote: ↑Sat, 24. Aug 19, 20:22When I was in school the class computer used CP/M. This says more about the state of funding of schools at the time than it does
about my age
If you want to feel really old look up CESIL.
My elder brother was forced to write "code" in that crap in computer class.
For those who value their sanity and would I rather i just tell you, it was an invented language designed to teach assembly language.
Like many invented languages it was far harder to use than any real assembly language because it had a ridiculously restricted
instruction set.
(1st computer was a Sharp MZ90K)
And I do remember CESIL, but I also wrote a compiler (in Pascal) for a simple machine code emulator called FL/0. - Talk about pointless...
I also learned Lisp, Fortran (77) and COBOL...
I also have wide collared shirts and think I dance like John Travolta.
“Man, my poor head is battered,” Ed said.
“That explains its unusual shape,” Styanar said, grinning openly now. “Although it does little to illuminate just why your jowls are so flaccid or why you have quite so many chins.”
“I…” Had she just called him fat? “I am just a different species, that’s all.”
“Well nature sure does have a sense of humour then,” Styanar said. “Shall we go inside? It’d not be a good idea for me to be spotted by others.”
“That explains its unusual shape,” Styanar said, grinning openly now. “Although it does little to illuminate just why your jowls are so flaccid or why you have quite so many chins.”
“I…” Had she just called him fat? “I am just a different species, that’s all.”
“Well nature sure does have a sense of humour then,” Styanar said. “Shall we go inside? It’d not be a good idea for me to be spotted by others.”
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I can't breathe.
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... or Travolta's nightmares maybe?
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Definitely charity, even if the charity shop-of-choice doesn't sell them directly from their shops (they may move it onwards if it doesn't shift), they then tend to gain *some* monetary gain by selling them onwards to https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb and similar, which people may then buy from.
Second donating to British Heart Foundation though - especially for decent furniture and other goodies like that. If they're interested then for bulkier items they send a volunteer with a van to collect it
As for community shared, our village phone box has been transformed into a mini library (with defibrillator installed too, surprisingly), where you can take / give books as you like (i.e. swapsies!).
I own a kindle, but buy about 10 times more paper books than kindle books. Still just find them easier to read - though I now tend to buy them second hand instead of new.
Second donating to British Heart Foundation though - especially for decent furniture and other goodies like that. If they're interested then for bulkier items they send a volunteer with a van to collect it
As for community shared, our village phone box has been transformed into a mini library (with defibrillator installed too, surprisingly), where you can take / give books as you like (i.e. swapsies!).
I own a kindle, but buy about 10 times more paper books than kindle books. Still just find them easier to read - though I now tend to buy them second hand instead of new.
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I have not ! phew, that was close.
But I probably still know BASIC perfectly....
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