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[> [> [> Re: @ SFM ... -- HeatherM, 13:45:32 01/25/11 Tue

I always hit up the books at Goodwill. In fact about 70% of my 800+ book classroom library came from a Goodwill store somewhere in the country. BC, I still have not found Horton Hears a Who at Goodwill. I'll keep an eye out for a copy.

I love that clip from Back to the Future! The first movie in the series was truly the best.


Heather

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[> [> [> [> Re: @ SFM ... -- BC, 17:11:06 01/25/11 Tue

Thanks Heather!
800 books?!
That's quite an extensive library for a classroom in my opinion - "very cool"! :)

re: Back to the Future ...
I think it would be fun to go back in time like "Marty" and see what my own parents were like in high school! :)

My daughter just said she thinks there's a tornado warning in central Florida?! I hope you're ok!
- BC

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[> [> [> [> [> Crazy FL weather -- HeatherM, 21:27:56 01/25/11 Tue

Everything is okay in my neck of the woods. There may be some tree limbs down, but I won't be able to see the full extent of any damage until the morning when the sun comes up. It poured for about an hour. We had lots of thunder and lightning. It looked much worse on the weather radar, at least for Deltona. The power kept going off and on, but did not stay off for more than a minute at a time. The wind was cazy though. Some areas had wind gusts over 60MPH...YIKES!!! I'm glad I was home and not at school. The playground will probably be a huge pile of mud tomorrow. So, we may just stay inside and have more time for 100th day fun.

800 books...oh yeah! They have all kinds of categories to choose from (neighborhood, fiends, vehicles, weather, seasons, animals (fiction and nonfiction are separate), numbers, ABCs.....etc. We have author and series bins too. At least 30 are from Dr. Seuss. About 10 Laura Numeroff (If you give a mouse....)Clifford books coming out of my ears. The kids have access to most of the books, but I have a collection that I use for specific lessons and those books stay with me.


Heather

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[> [> [> [> [> [> Re: Crazy FL weather -- BC, 01:39:46 01/26/11 Wed

Your library sounds awesome Heather!
While observing a first grade classroom last semester, - when given a choice by their teacher - the students voted to have her read a book aloud to them rather than have time to play computer games! :) Which I thought was "very cool"! :)

re: the weather I'm glad you're OK! I hope Nancy is alright too! I'm up kinda early myself to check on the weather here in TN. Looking out my window - since I began typing it has changed from rain to snow. We may be using our last "snowday" today?!
- BC

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[> [> [> Re: Goodwill -- BC, 17:28:25 01/25/11 Tue

You and I sound alike in a lot of ways Brittany! I have all kinds of "crafty" ideas - it's just finding the time to assemble them! :)

"World's Largest Yard Sale" or "The 127 Sale"
This one was in Aug. 2010
http://www.lookoutmountainparkway.org/worlds-longest-yard-sale.html
But, this one is "yet to be"! :)
"TN52" yard sale - May 2011
http://www.tn52.com/tn52_yard_sale.htm
That's a lotta "stuff"!

I think they should offer some kind of "fly over" so a shopper could "scan" the complete inventory before beginning the "trek" on ground 'cause what if you're walking along - with only so much money in your pocket and think "man, I gotta go back and get that (whatever item) 'cause they had a "way better" price on it than this guy?! :) - it could be a very long walk?! :)
- BC

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[> [> [> re: re-sales -- BC, 11:22:03 01/27/11 Thu

maybe it's just a means of him making a list to see if they're in "demand" or not on Ebay? ...
- I'm not certain as to the "legalities"?
- probably wants to see if they're worth making the investment for resale.
- BC

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[> [> [> Re: @ Michelle -- BC, 10:37:48 01/27/11 Thu

Thanks Michelle!
Didn't Washington Irving write "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"?! :)
I did some research, and found this info ...
"... late in life Irving wrote a colossal five-volume biography of George Washington, and his biography of Christopher Columbus is still considered a classic."
- "very cool"
- BC :)

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[> [> ISBNs -- Brittany, 15:39:14 01/27/11 Thu

Some book resellers have a scanner for the barcode of the book that they can use to check to see if the book is worth reselling. One of the things some of them can do is you can set your lowest price and sales rank, so that when on Amazon, if the lowest price is more than you set yours at and the sales rank is within your range, it tells you. Let's say my minimum price was $5 and my sales rank went to 1 million in books (in the top 1 million bestselling books). I run my scanner on a book and the lowest price on Amazon is $10 and the sales rank is 500,000. That would fall into my range and be a "keeper".

I think these scanners are mostly for cell phones? It is something you can add on. As far as it being "legit", some places won't let you use them. I've been to some Friends of the Library sales where they are banned. Personally, I don't see what the big deal is. The place selling books is there to sell books, right? True, they could easily "gobble up" all the books so the regular people can't get to them. I guess it isn't fair either way.

I personally don't have a scanner because I don't want to spend the money and I think it might just work with a PC and I have a Mac (go Macs!). I'm going to get a smart phone any day now, though, so I am planning on seeing what kind of apps they might have. When I go to garage sales, I usually rely on my childlike appearance to get the good deals. I normally get mistaken for a teenager all the time, but for garage saling, I purposefully try to look and act younger and I think I might be able to pass for middle school. Yes, the people running the sale might wonder why I'm buying all these adult books, but do they really want to take away all my baby-sitting money? Now if I had a scanner, that would totally blow my cover :P

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[> [> [> Re: ISBNs -- BC, 15:52:28 01/27/11 Thu

Thanks Brittany!
My purchases are made with the intent of keeping them - especially the books and record albums.
I didn't realize that browsing for bargains in thrift shops has become so "high tech"?!
- BC

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[> [> [> [> Re: ISBNs -- Brittany, 16:17:06 01/27/11 Thu

Have I ever told you the story of "Angélique"? I knew it was an expensive book online (like $50) and I found it at a used bookstore as well as a couple of other books in the series. Before I sold it, I was curious about it and why it was so expensive (that's a whole other story), so I read it, and now that first book is worth much more to me than $50 and I refuse to part with it, even though I have since acquired another one that is hardcover and in nicer shape! Anyway, just reading that book instead of selling it really changed my life, I think.

And that was just from memory, no scanner! *bows*

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[> [> [> [> [> Re: ISBNs -- BC (@ Brittany), 09:44:44 01/28/11 Fri

"serendipity" perhaps?! :)
or, - as LauraG sometimes calls it - "synchronicity" ?! :)

sometimes - you'll find things in the most unexpected places ...
good things ...
things that you weren't - or, didn't even know that you were - looking for ...
but it seems as if they were "looking" for you?! :)
- BC

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