Paperbacks have the covers stripped off; covers are sent back to the publisher for credit and the books are pulped (for recycling). Hardcovers are marked - either a magic marker stripe across the pages (at the edge) or a mark on the cover - and the entire thing sent back.
I've really got to learn to just do the damage and get out of town. It's the 'stay and gloat' that gets me every time.
Ethan Rayne ,'Potential'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Toddson - Aug 11, 2008 6:46:46 am PDT #6930 of 28385
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
amych - Aug 11, 2008 6:51:29 am PDT #6931 of 28385
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
No, hardcovers and trade paperbacks are sent back as is, since they may still be sold to another store. The marker stripe you've sometimes seen is done by the publishers only after the book has been remaindered.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 11, 2008 7:06:53 am PDT #6932 of 28385
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Anybody else wondering if Kerfuffle Bunny is going to be talking about OSC?
I say, send the covers/dust jackets to Card, and include a note saying you made confetti for a gay wedding out of the rest.
Kathy A - Aug 11, 2008 7:09:22 am PDT #6933 of 28385
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
the books are pulped (for recycling)
Not always. When I worked at Waldenbooks, we'd just box them up and toss them in the dumpster.
amych - Aug 11, 2008 7:11:18 am PDT #6934 of 28385
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Ideally, of course, strips are sent home to new forever-homes with loving booksellers. Publishers like to crack down and say you can't do that, and then stores say "no, booksellers, you can't have that book we're throwing away!"
And then things start to slide again.
Miracleman - Aug 11, 2008 7:15:59 am PDT #6935 of 28385
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Anybody else wondering if Kerfuffle Bunny is going to be talking about OSC?
Probably Friday.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 11, 2008 7:18:36 am PDT #6936 of 28385
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Is that where the 70% off books come from?
Jessica - Aug 11, 2008 7:23:30 am PDT #6937 of 28385
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I may wind up selling my OSC's on eBay, but I don't think I could bring myself to physically damage one (to send him the covers). I once accidentally water-damaged my LotR set by putting a leaky humidifier on top of the bookshelf and I felt like I'd run over a puppy for about a week afterwards. It's not the books' fault their author is a raging psychotic bigot, you know?
t /anthropomorphism issues
Miracleman - Aug 11, 2008 7:25:48 am PDT #6938 of 28385
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
I may wind up selling my OSC's on eBay, but I don't think I could bring myself to physically damage one (to send him the covers). I once accidentally water-damaged my LotR set by putting a leaky humidifier on top of the bookshelf and I felt like I'd run over a puppy for about a week afterwards. It's not the books' fault their author is a raging psychotic bigot, you know?
I'm actually with you on this. I find it difficult to write in the margins of textbooks, let alone damage any other kind of book.
I'll probably just send them back whole.
Jessica - Aug 11, 2008 7:32:11 am PDT #6939 of 28385
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I find it difficult to write in the margins of textbooks, let alone damage any other kind of book.
I happily wrote in the margins of my math/science textbooks. Never EVER in anything for an English/Lit class. Even when it was the teacher's STRONGLY recommended (read: mandatory but unenforceable because at the end of the day they were our books) method of note-taking. I just couldn't do it. Not even with books I hated.
Oddly, I love finding other people's notes in the margins of used books.
Oh, and I finally started writing in cookbooks after I realized that it really wasn't fair to get mad at DH for making a recipe "wrong" by following what was in the book, just because the way I use recipes is as a memory jog for the bits I've changed.