[bksvol-discuss] Re: Ot: book buying

  • From: Debby Franson <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:29:51 -0500

Hi Roger!

That's an interesting thought. Perhaps we should ask them at thriftbooks.com if they would donate books to Bookshare.. We'll never know if we don't ask, (smile).

We could tell them what Bookshare is.  They probably are unaware of it.

Debby

At 02:24 PM 6/17/2010, Roger Loran Bailey wrote
If they are willing to donate all those books to developing countries, I wonder if they would be willing to donate some of them to Bookshare.


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----- Original Message ----- From: "Debby Franson" <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Ot: book buying


Hi Kim!

I haven't signed up to thriftbooks.com, so I don't have any personal experience on bookquality or how easy the service is to use, but I just visited the web site for a minute or two to read the home page to get a sense of it. Just a general tip, when you go to a site and hear "top, bottom" and nothing in between those extremes so it looks like the site is totally inaccessible, try refreshing the page by hitting F5. That usually has worked for me. I didn't have to refresh this site. I got 93 links without doing anything.

This looks like a cool site.  It says in part:

HELPING SUPPORT WORLD LITERACY
Thrift Books is dedicated to helping world literacy. We have donated hundreds of thousands of books to developing countries world-wide. These books go to schools and mostly to young children who would otherwise not have access to these life-changing
tools. Reading can open the doors of the world. Learn how you can help.
coming soon...
GREEN INITIATIVES
HELPING OUR PLANET ONE BOOK AT A TIME
GreenInitiatives.aspx
Learn what Thrift Books is doing to keep our planet healthy and what you can do to help. We recycle more than 1 million pounds of used books a month. Those are used books that will never see a landfill. Learn how buying used books helps the earth.
See how we Go Green...

They sound quite dedicated to what they are doing.  That's nice to see.

Debby

At 07:57 PM 6/14/2010, Kim Friedman wrote

Hi, somebody sent an email about a web site where you could buy books without paying shipping costs. I'm not sure if this site is thrift.com or thriftbooks.com. Anyhow, I tried to go on to the thriftbooks.com web site and apparently there's nothing there or at least there wasn't as far as my screen reader was concerned. Have any of you gone there and what kind of book quality is there? If it's any good, accessible, and easy to use, it gives me one more source to find books for bookshare. Thanks for the info. Regards, Kim.



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