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Selling Your Used Books, Part Two: Think Locally

Written on April 22, 2008 by Sarah White in Books

A few days ago I shared some thoughts about getting rid of your excess book inventory by selling books on Amazon. My experiment in online retail is going well so far; I’ve made about $100 in less than a week selling about a dozen books. Of course I’ve still got 50 or more books listed…

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Selling Your Used Books, Part One: For the Love of Amazon

Written on April 18, 2008 by Sarah White in Books, Tips

I have way too many books in my house. That’s not an admission a lover of the written word makes very often, but you haven’t seen my office. There are stacks of books everywhere (I can probably see about 200 books right now without really tuning my head) and I know some of these books…

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Kill Your Television and Read a Book!

Written on September 22, 2006 by Sarah White in Books

I saw this morning that there are now more televisions per household than there are people, on average, with something like 2.7 televisions per household on average compared to only 2.5 people per household. Obviously there are lots of families that are way bigger than 2.5 people, and there are lots of single people who…

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Grammar for the Rest of You

Written on July 15, 2006 by Sarah White in Book Review, Books, Publishing, Tips, Writing

I’ll have to admit I’m a bit of a grammar geek. I usually refer to myself as a word nerd. I’m a professional editor as well as being a writer, so words, and the correct usage of words, are my business. Because I’m more than a little obsessed with all things wordy, I can’t resist…

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It Never Lets You Go

Written on May 17, 2006 by Sarah White in Book Review, Books, Favorite Authors

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. 304 pages, $24.00 (hardcover) Knopf. This is one of those books that a well-meaning book reviewer can completely ruin for a reader. Admittedly I wanted to read this book because I had read so many reviews praising it, but those same reviews taught me something important about spoilers….

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Reading Lists for Grownups

Written on March 23, 2006 by Sarah White in Books, Favorite Authors, Favorite Books

A few years after I left college, I began to realize that there was a lot of literature I hadn’t read. (I still haven’t read a lot of good stuff that everyone reads, like anything by Mark Twain or Charles Dickens.) I decided I wanted to do something about it by giving myself reading assignments….

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