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nikinikinine
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NGPR: selling books online?
nikinikinine
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Has anyone sold books online? I used to be an English teacher (for 5 years) and I have 5 boxes and three bookshelves full of books in my basement. At first I contemplated donating them to a city school, but I think I may sell them online.
I've been researching how to do this online this morning but haven't had much luck.
If you've sold a book/books online, which site did you use and how did you set it up/get started. Was it worth it?
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Re: NGPR: selling books online?
I think we sell ours on half.com - they do textbooks too. Always had good experiences
I also recommend half.com
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half.com = life. never sold... but i buy all my text books there.?
p.s n, you were an english teacher? im applying for letter of eligibility this month to teach h.s. english. did you enjoy it???
um, yes and no. I taught h.s. English so feel free to pepper me with questions. The thing that sucks about teaching English (esp. HS Eng) in particular is that your content is very heavy. So for example, first you have to read Hamlet, then you have to learn Hamlet, then you have to figure out how to teach Hamlet, then you have to grade 60-120+ 5 page papers on characterization in Hamlet while reading/learning/teaching Fitzgerald or Hemingway or Toni Morrison, etc. The first few years are a bear because of all of that. Once you have your units nailed down fine tuning them is very easy because you know what worked and you can build on that. But the grading, oh the grading. I never once had a vacation from school, our weeklong or 3 day weekend type breaks were just spent catching up.
I loved LOVED loved the kids.
Honeslty, I feel like if I went back now I'd be a better teacher because I had a year+ off and it's allowed me to read more and think more and experience more and I've thought of 1,000 new things that I can do in a classroom as a result.
Lastly, I was not the biggest fan of the others in my department or teachers in general. And before I get flamed by a bunch of teachers on the board here's why:
1. we're all teaching the same stuff/units/books/etc. but everyone is very covetous of their ideas and what they do that works. It's a bit like rushing a sorority. It's intentionally hard and only when you've failed and succeeded on your own are you allowed to become part of the inner circle (and even then you're never really IN it because the others have all been together for 7-10+ years).
2. they prejudge the kids. People would literally trade class lists on the first days of school for teachers (before kids got there) and say this kid's the smelly kid, this kid's a real PITA, this kid's parents are a-holes, this kid is an a-hole, this one will be your favorite, etc. And so kids never get a fresh start which is BS IMO. Literally I believe *most* kids when they say they dropped their pencil and got kicked out of class by some teachers because that teacher already had that kid on their radar.
Anyway that was my experience. I went into teaching cause I love books/reading/writing and because I thought it would be a great career for a woman interested in having a family. What I found was that I was very isolated, overworked and that I had no life. I didn't think it was as family friendly as it appeared on the outside. Mostly I spent my days raising other peoples' kids and I couldn't figure out how I would possibly have the time or the energy afterward to raise my own. HTH...