Hi, my name's Adenil. I'm a huge Star Trek fan and over the years I have accumulated more than 150 books. The other day I was thinking it would be great to share all those books with people, and so I had the idea to do an on line lending library. I was wondering if any of you think there would be interest in something like that, and any suggestions you might have.
Thanks in advance.
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Posted 1 year ago #
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The problem as I see it is the cost of sending them back and forth, wear and tear, and the problem of losing them, one way or another.
If I still had my mother's collection along with my current and past collections, I would be able to stock a small library.
The meek shall inherit the Earth. The rest of us are getting the hell off this rock!Posted 1 year ago # -
Well, the only thing anyone will have to pay for is shipping, which I'm still trying to understand. There would also be an insurance charge which would be refunded upon retrieval of the book, so people would be disinclined to steal them. I was worried the cost would be too high as well, but I'm not quite sure how to deal with the problem.
I suppose you're right about general wear and tear. I think a lot of people would treat the books more kindly, though, because they know they belong to someone else. Maybe?Posted 1 year ago # -
sadly no, I used to subscribe to books free : http://www.booksfree.com/ and the condition of the books was perfectly readable, but I doubt that they made all too many trips from the warehouse.
I think it would be best to offer the easily replaceable books for a normal fee and then like you said, add on an insurance fee fro the not so replaceable ones.
I dunno. My local library carries pretty much all of the books I would want to read ;)
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I like that idea of only having insurance on the less easily replaceable books. I'll look into that.
The thing is, I live in a small town. My library only had four Star Trek related books (including Shatner's biography, which I didn't care too much for) I'm sure there are others who would like to read books, but their library doesn't carry them, or they've already read them, etc.
By the way? That booksfree website looks amazing... I'm madly jealous. :)Posted 1 year ago # -
man, I couldn't even imagine having a library that only had 4 star trek books.
that's ought to be illegal ;)
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It should definitely be illegal. I can't fault them for it though, my library is terribly underfunded. :(
I did some research, and shipping a book would cost about $2.70. Does this seem reasonable? It seems reasonable to me, but I'm not very objective.Posted 1 year ago # -
sounds good enough for shipping, but it's a bit much to ask people to pay when they could just go out and buy the book new for that price :(
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