baldowrie
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Home educationAs I am now full time home educating I am going to have from time to time educational books for sale. Is anyone interested before I pop them ebay?
I would rather sell them on NEEPS than else, but don't want to waste time advertising them and no one is ever interested.
Edited to say WG maybe a lending library for these books? Lender pays postage, both ways, if it necessary to post...and maybe a returnable deposit for expensive books or a lot at a time or pays for any damage rendering the book useless?
Just a thought.
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wildgarlic
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Sounds like an interesting idea Baldowrie - you fancy being a librarian? 
We've got a Neeps library here at Neeps HQ - so far it's worked well and people have borrowed at one neeps meet up and returned at the next one.
What would happen if the book got lost en route though? I guess there is some postal insurance included in the postage fee.
Also, if everyone is as bad at posting things as I am, you could end up waiting for the book for a long time :oops
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baldowrie
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| Quote: | Sounds like an interesting idea Baldowrie - you fancy being a librarian?
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I was going suggest that, although I would suggest that I keep a list of books with pictures? and locations, with addresses for both borrower (postage payer..got it muddled :? ) and lender rather than the books  Time limits for length of borrowing, for example my Heinemann maths 5 can't be worked on in a months so maybe photocopy the pages required, at cost, and post them on. The book itself cost £10.00 and has 123 pages so say 10p a page...half to NEEPS and half to the lender? That way several people can use it at once.
I think if people want to do it then several factors need to put into the mix..cost of petrol for those that are a fair distance from the post office, as I am, postal insurance, small deposit per say? Small charge to NEEPS, etc.
It needs many suggestions then a plan drawn up.
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wildgarlic
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will have a think... sounds like an option. Anyone else got any thoughts?
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baldowrie
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of course there is always email
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Diana
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You could make PDFs of the scanned pages and email them, but that's an awful lot of work for you though. Mind you, it means the books don't have to go anywhere.
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PurpleDragon
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| baldowrie wrote: | | so maybe photocopy the pages required, at cost, and post them on. The book itself cost £10.00 and has 123 pages so say 10p a page...half to NEEPS and half to the lender? That way several people can use it at once. |
I think you would be getting into copyright issues then.
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baldowrie
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ok no one seems to be interested, so I shall sell the books tomorrow...shame, but never mind
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Villagefarm
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Hi - sorry, didn't look at this thread until tonight.
We're home educating our 5 kids, oldest is 8 1/2yrs. We would possibly be interested in buying some of the books - not sure if it would work out borrowing and posting though, as postage charges would soon mount up to close to cost of book.
Which books have you got at the moment - if they were appropriate for the stage we're at just now, would be happy to pay going rate + postage etc, can paypal if that's best.
If you have a chance to let me know what you have, I can let you know tomorrow a.m if we are interested - wouldn't want to hold you up from ebaying them!
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