tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625711107947931260.post5006050335497020850..comments2023-09-29T01:59:15.933-04:00Comments on Aaron DeMott: A Sad DayAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16294994778170413112noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625711107947931260.post-89312292727352345102012-08-29T18:24:35.659-04:002012-08-29T18:24:35.659-04:00Wow, that is a sacrilege. I simply can't unde...Wow, that is a sacrilege. I simply can't understand people who simply throw things away to "clean." I'm sure such people have a lot of good personality elements that I don't have (like, maybe just a little of organization...), but to me, throwing away anything old but still useful is a shame. I was sad to see a school throw away long-obsolete desktop PCs; throwing away old books is even much worse.Bainespalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02036151461448619765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625711107947931260.post-77406098862490961092012-08-29T10:20:34.010-04:002012-08-29T10:20:34.010-04:00All kinds of stuff. I rescued almost the whole Che...All kinds of stuff. I rescued almost the whole Cherry Ames series, a ton of biographies, lots of novels from around the late 1800's and 1900's, a G.A. Henty book (if anyone has boys and has trouble getting them to like history, look these up! They're historical fiction written in the 1800's).<br /><br />I also rescued an encyclopedia (1956 World Book. Some say it's out of date, but for historical events, they don't change, and it's valuable to have a different view than the currently held one on said events. Also, I'm going to homeschool and want to make sure my kids can research the old fashioned way too), tons of theology books, a handful of Hardy Boys and Tom Swift Jr books.<br /><br />They had a Family Illustrated Bible Encyclopedia too, but sadly I didn't get to it in time. :(Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16294994778170413112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625711107947931260.post-28378394936208416392012-08-28T18:47:54.787-04:002012-08-28T18:47:54.787-04:00Oh man, as a book hoarder myself, that made me so ...Oh man, as a book hoarder myself, that made me so very sad. For one thing, church libraries often have valuable first editions of rare books that would be worth a nice chunk of cash, had they bothered to sell them. It's too bad the church didn't tell people they had a library so it got used more often.<br /><br />But just ... wow. What kinds of books did they throw out?Kessiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15019626781634777336noreply@blogger.com