books

Resources to find used books


Perhaps this is where to start: BookFinder.com It’s a meta search that searches many of the online vendors. The search results are sorted by price plus shipping which is convenient. If there is ambiguity in the search results, BookFinder presents a list of possible titles.

For example, I searched for Van Gogh and found a book “The Essential Letters.” To verify, I searched the vendors in the list below. Bookfinder’s search results included links to their offerings.

In addition to book finder, here are a few specific used book sellers:
Alibris
AbeBooks
Half price books
Better World Books
Thriftbooks
Biblio.com

The world is big, but it isn’t so big that we can’t hurt it

A green thought bubble
I’m binding my poetry into books. I’ve got two books so far of 300 poems. My books of the next 300 will be done soon. I’m working all day tomorrow, so it’ll have to wait until I get home. I love my velobind machine.

I had forgotten that back in 2011, when I would write a poem, I might write a one page meditation about the poem.

Reading them again is like meeting myself a second time. Some feelings are the same, some are less familiar.

One quote I found:

“The world is big, but it isn’t so big that we can’t hurt it.”

All of the shouting about climate change misses the point. We’re hurting our planet. The exact mechanism doesn’t really matter.

Animals are suffering. Plants are suffering. The oceans are suffering. The land is suffering. The air is suffering. People are suffering.

The planet is suffering and we’re to blame.