Once they’ve received the book, they’ll give you an Amazon credit. Fill out a brief questionnaire about the condition of your book, and then Amazon will give you a shipping label. For the trade-in program, you search your book edition, find the ISBN (the 13 digit code typically on the back or on the copyright page), and check if Amazon will offer you money for your book. The first is through their trade-in program. There are a few different options for selling books online through Amazon. You can browse the stacks and they’ll call you when your offer is ready. You pack up your books, bring them in, and then wait at the store while a bookseller appraises your books. If you live near a HPB, this is a great solution for selling your books. On my last trip to Half Price Books, I had a banker’s box full of hardcovers in great condition, and I made about $20, which was enough to cover the cost of some bookends and magazine boxes that I used to finish organizing my bookshelves. If you only have two or three books you need to re-home, you’re better off putting them in a Little Free Library. If you’re planning to sell books, wait until you have at least a stack of them ready to go.
One thing before we go on: you’re probably not going to make a lot of money off your books unless you’re a collector or plan on doing this in major volume. You could give them away or donate them, which is quite noble, but it is always nice to be able to get a little money back from everything you’ve paid out to your bookshelves.
However you do it, you will hopefully be left with large stacks of books to dispose of. You may need to recite some of Alice’s helpful mantras to yourself. Of course, there are plenty of other ways to go about this: you may want to do the KonMari method, you may just go for a good ol’ spring cleaning. And, that may mean it’s time to sell books (*gasp!*). When you’ve come to this point, you will want to clean out your collection.
There comes a time in every reader’s life where they have to accept some hard truths: that not every book they’ve read is one they should treasure forever that they don’t need three different copies of their favorite classic, even if it keeps being re-released with cooler covers that decorating in towering stacks of books might not be the healthiest choice unless they want to start wearing helmets around the house.
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