隨風而逝......~
Last Updated: 20Jul2004

Title: New life for old books
Source: South China Morning Post
Date: 19thSeptember, 2002

Summary:

The prices of textbook is raising in recent year,
so there is a good market for second-hand books.
To ensure a good price for the brand-new books,
people should protect the book carefully.
For example,
do the textbook wrappings and wrap the books in plastic covers when it rains heavily.
Also, if you scribble on the textbook,
the second-hand book store shopkeeper will lower the price.
And second-hand book fairs at school or selling the books to the lower-form students,
usually have a better price than what you get at book store.

Comment:

Usually, students want to sale the old textbooks to get money.
Also, they can save the space that is used to store the books.
If we sell the books to second-hand book fairs at the end of the academic year at school,
we can get 50 percentage of the original prices after other buy the books.

Besides, I think that selling the textbooks is not easily as
I don’t know which books can be used in the future.
So after I make the decision, it is too late to sell at the school.
The other problem is about the marking on the workbooks are marked by ball-point pen,
and I can’t clear them.
Workbooks have less chance to be used later than the textbooks,
but we can’t sell them,
and also need to store them at home.
I have no chance to change this reality.

(Written in 22Sep2002 F.3)