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moving update ... selling book binge!

In the process of all of the sorting and stacking and piling and donating and packing and tossing thus far, I have managed to acquire a rather lofty-sized mountain o' books that I will no read, want, or need. A lot of the books have been accumulated through college and grad school courses and I probably won't ever read 'em again. I was feeling the charitable vibe and was planning to donate them to local libraries, but then I thought, 'Ella -- you could probably gain a little bit of your money back ... look for online book-buy-back web sites!' And so I did. And what I came across was one of the most magnificent search engines known to woman called Book Scouter. You enter the ISBN number of the book{s} that you want to sell and it searches through the numerous buy-back web sites and generates a list for you of the bids that you would get from said sites. I spent a good part of last night and this afternoon typing in ISBN numbers and now a lot of my books are packed up and ready to move to Textbooks 'R Us, Book Jingle, Book Byte, textbooks.com, College Books Direct, and Powell's. I know that I probably spent way more to buy them, but I'm going to get back almost $200. Not too shabby for a few hours' work. Nor do I have to pay to ship them, thankyouverymuch. Each web site provided a handy dandy print-n-ship label upon checkout. My funds will go into PayPal, but you can also have them send you a check. I think, however, that PayPal will be a lot quicker. And, just so you know, the books that are not in those 7 boxes will be heading to the libraries of Pikeville College, the city of Pikeville, and UVa-Wise. So there.

Tomorrow's agenda includes delivering most of my packages to the post office and the UPS Store, going up on campus and submitting final grades and clean-and-clearing my office, and then coming back home to do some more work here. Feeling a little bit more positive this evening, but I still have an incredible amount of work to do! But, I promised a much more positive blog entry this evening, so here you go.

G'night to all!