{"id":290,"date":"2008-07-12T13:39:39","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T04:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/12\/the-value-of-old-things\/"},"modified":"2008-07-12T13:39:39","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T04:39:39","slug":"the-value-of-old-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/12\/the-value-of-old-things\/","title":{"rendered":"The value of old things"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entryimage\">\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=daveva-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0618517650&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=daveva-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0201021153&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=daveva-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0812579844&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=daveva-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0345457692&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=daveva-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0553801473&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>40 old shirts (T and collared) sold at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.go-bingo.jp\/index.html\">Bingo&#8217;s Jiyugaoka shop<\/a>.  30 old books (English and Japanese) sold at (of course) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookoff.co.jp\/shop\/shop2289.html\">Jiyugaoka&#8217;s Book Off.<\/a><P><\/p>\n<p>Results: ~ 2000 yen.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nHow depressing!  My &#8220;stuff&#8221; is hardly worth anything!  The books were the hardest to part with.  In the end, I kept my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000E0PDGC?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=daveva-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B000E0PDGC\">totally awesome leatherbound Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy collection<\/a> and my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0618517650?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=daveva-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0618517650\">Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition)<\/a> books.  Both were gifts from my dad and grandma.  They know how to give!  I also wish I had my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0201021153?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=daveva-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0201021153\">Feynman Lectures on Physics<\/a> books, but they are still back in America.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe hardest part was deciding which books to get rid of.  I didn&#8217;t want to sell <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0812579844?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=daveva-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0812579844\">John C. Wright&#8217;s Golden Age Trilogy<\/a>, but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll read it again, and I don&#8217;t want to pay to cart it to the new place and then not have a place to put it.  I also sold the three <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardkmorgan.com\/\">Richard K. Morgan sci-fi hard-boiled noir detective novels in the Takeshi Kovacs series<\/a> that I had.  They were lots of fun, and I&#8217;m totally following his works now (I haven&#8217;t checked out Market Forces yet, but plan to.)<br \/>\n<P\/><\/p>\n<p>Some of the other stuff that remains: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iain_Banks\">4 Ian M. Banks&#8217; Culture Novels<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire\">George R. R. Martin&#8217;s Song of Ice and Fire<\/a> books (do all fantasy authors need to have R. R. in their name somewhere?), and my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.jp\/20%E4%B8%96%E7%B4%80%E5%B0%91%E5%B9%B4%E2%80%95%E6%9C%AC%E6%A0%BC%E7%A7%91%E5%AD%A6%E5%86%92%E9%99%BA%E6%BC%AB%E7%94%BB-1-%E3%83%93%E3%83%83%E3%82%B0%E3%82%B3%E3%83%9F%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9-%E6%B5%A6%E6%B2%A2-%E7%9B%B4%E6%A8%B9\/dp\/4091855318\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1215869444&#038;sr=8-1\">20th Century Boys manga collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<p>There are a few other things up there (notably <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0099456761?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=daveva-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0099456761\">The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/?postid=282\">I spoke about in a previous post<\/a>) but I feel like I&#8217;ve played the role of book seller for too long already.  Also, how come I can&#8217;t get affiliate links for Japanese stuff?  I bet I have to sign up for an Amazon.co.jp account for that.  Dang.  <\/p>\n<p><P\/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m down to three shelves of books (I didn&#8217;t talk at all about my technical book shelf) and it is getting really hard to part with any more books.  I don&#8217;t know what will happen when we move to the new place though.  I&#8217;m afraid I&#8217;ll have to part with more tree-pulp-based friends, but it will be tough!  I&#8217;m really starting to like the idea of keeping e-book versions of these books around just for the space savings.  <\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>40 old shirts (T and collared) sold at Bingo&#8217;s Jiyugaoka shop. 30 old books (English and Japanese) sold at (of course) Jiyugaoka&#8217;s Book Off. Results: ~ 2000 yen. How depressing! My &#8220;stuff&#8221; is hardly worth anything! The books were the hardest to part with. 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