Twice Sold Books

So what do you do when you are done with your magazines? Or even your books? There are several ways of getting rid of them. Here are some suggestions.

1. Give them away to people/places that may want them. But do not be offended if no body/place want them. Because, hey, you too do not want them in the first place!

2. Sell them off to the 'Surat khabar lama' man for a pittance, because your discards also mean nothing to them except as recyclable paper. They accept everything, and the plus point is, they come to your house.

3. Sell them off to the second-hand book stores for slightly more than a pittance. But first you have to find the store, then you have to angkut (lug/carry) the stuff you want to be rid off there. Do not be surprised if they do not accept everything that you have brought. Sheesh ... after all the lugging! From my experience, many magazines that are considered 'trash', i.e. with no real feature articles (read URTV, and the like) will not be considered. So also trade magazines or those with too many advertisements (aren't most magazines full of ads anyway?)

4. If you live in Shah Alam like me, sell them off to the "Twice Sold Books" kiosk at the Giant Hypermarket in Section 13. Last year I dejunked a whole lot of magazines there and earned the very princely sum of RM27, for what originally cost us probably about RM2K!!?  But yay! I did get to reclaim the space they were occupying ... for more magazines ... of my ever growing National Geographic collection.

The 'Twice Sold Books" kiosk in Shah Alam  (CNB 2013)