Use The Library More

With difficult economic times people are cutting back on lots of things. This is a great time to rediscover your local library.

Let your magazine subscriptions lapse. Or most of them, or many of them. Do you really read them all anyway? Go to the library and spend an hour or two or three and read magazines there or take them out.

Stop renting films from Blockbuster and use the DVD rentals at your library. My local libarary rents family films for a week for free. Can't beat that price.

Read books. This is a perfect time to go back to reading as a form of recreation instead of video games or other expensive electronic items.

Read together as a family. Read to each other. Read the same book and talk about it. Redicover your connections to each other.

Go to free lectures, children's story hour or whatever else you library provides free of charge. Some libraries have a tremendous amount of programming, some don't. Check other libraries in your area and see if they have programming.

Libraries are a window onto the whole world.

Book Value

Many times when working with clients people have insisted to me that because it's old a book is worth a lot of money. They never believe me when I say that just being old does not determine a book's worth.

When I tell them that many recent books are valuable and much of the value lies in the dust jacket they again tell me that I am wrong.

When I explain that condition is extremely important they again tell me that I am wrong.

Well there's an antiquarian book dealer in the Denver area who has a website
www.go-bookworld.com . Go there. He has a section on what determines a book's value and a section on how preserve your book.