Books on Tape? Deacquistioning

[lydy]

If you would like some books on tape, and by this I mean actual, honest to god, cassette tapes, I am getting rid of my collection.  To be clear, deacquistioning makes me tired and sad, so I am not dusting, sorting, or cataloging.  I have almost entirely unabridged editions (any abridged editions would have been purchased on accident), and it is largely sff and mystery, with some classics and nonfiction.  If you are looking for something particular, and I think I have it, I will try to find it for you.  But all this lot goes to the Goodwill in a couple of days.

I know that I have some Heinlein, Doomsday Book by Connie Willis, a number of Jane Austen books, the Harper Hall books by McCaffrey, Dragonflight and Dragonsinger, The Hobbit, all of LOTR, Dune, a bunch of Robert B. Parker, some Sue Grafton, a fair amount of Dorothy Sayers.  At least some of the Laura Ingalls Wilder, I don't think I managed to acquire the entire series before I stopped collecting books on tape.   

I will cheerfully drive a butt load of audio books to anywhere in the Twin Cities.  If you want the lot, I would be utterly charmed.  I could be talked into shipping them, but you really need to be taking a bunch of them in order for it to be worth my while to make it the post office.

It is always wrenching to me to give up possessions that at one point I cherished, even if they are not longer useful to me.  It feels like giving up a part of myself.  And yet, time waits for no man, and I'm not even a man.  So, then.

Comments

[dreamshark]

I might be interested in some of them if Lena has a tape player. I know she likes to listen to audiobooks.

[quadong]

Rebecca is interested in the Jane Austin Austen, and I am interested in the Tolkien, and we could take as much of the rest as you like. We're coming up to the Cities this weekend and could pick up from your porch or whatnot.

[dreamshark]

Amber says "no thanks" because they have had no trouble downloading plenty of audio books. So I say give them to Matt, who prefers old technology anyway.

[lydy]

I will sort some stuff for you, and we can arrange when I should leave it on my porch. And thank you so much for taking them. Some of them are spectacularly well-read, and it's always easier to give things away than it is to just bin them. email me for when it would be convenient to come by.

Do you still have books on cassette?

[eileenlufkin]

Hi! I have been away from Dreamwidth and am catching up. Do you still have any of these? No problem if not.

Re: Do you still have books on cassette?

[lydy]

Sorry, I gave all of them away. The ones no one wanted went to the Goodwill on Nicollet. Oh, and hi! Long time no chat!