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  • dragotxdragotx Posts: 1,147
    Richard Haseltine said:
    th3Digit said:
    Diomede said:

    I thought this was a thread about illegal use of knitting threads.

     

    The pattern for this scarf is another story too — which brings back other funny memories. It was a free pattern I found in a random knitter’s flickr photostream during one of my many unhappy days at my (former) 9-5 office job with eyes glazed in front of a computer screen. I spent many of those long days wishing I was home knitting and escaping by finding beautiful and inspiring knitting online to dream about.

    Well, as it turns out, the pattern was posted on flickr illegally and taken down shortly thereafter by the request of the original author who, despite lots of sleuthing, I have been unable to locate again. [ETA — the pattern has been found! See the notes at the end of the post for details] At that point, however, I had the pattern in hand (your partially-knitted fabric is the best pattern you can get!) and did little to worry about the fact that it had up and disappeared.

    .

    https://www.brooklyntweed.com/notebook/the-story-of-the-honeycomb/

     

     

    a few months ago I threw all my 16 odd hardbound golden hands knitting and crochet encyclopaedias into the recycling bin.

    It had every aran and other stitch you couldthink of in it.

    Alas my hands get repetitive strain if I knit or crochet and since I stopped for good can do many other things I could not before and nobody else wanted them so out they went.

    Nobody wants old books anymore of any sort.

    I myself used to have thousands but got rid most of them.

    Thought having my own library was awesome but now we have Ebooks and less clutter.

    I certainly still read just electronically.

    You. Threw. Away. Books. If that isn't illegal it jolly well should be.

    Unfortunately, it's getting to the point that's all you can do with them anymore.  Especially niche books like crochetting.  No one wants them anymore.  If you're lucky Half-Price will give you $.05 a piece for things like that, I doubt even a Library would be likely to accept them anymore.  This past weekend I took my mom to one of hte biggest Half Price book stores in the Dallas area to look for crochetting books since she's just starting to get into the hobby.  3 years ago they an entire aisle dedicated to just crochett.  Now they had a shelf and a half in one bookcase

     

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,075
    Richard Haseltine said:
    th3Digit said:
    Diomede said:

    I thought this was a thread about illegal use of knitting threads.

     

    The pattern for this scarf is another story too — which brings back other funny memories. It was a free pattern I found in a random knitter’s flickr photostream during one of my many unhappy days at my (former) 9-5 office job with eyes glazed in front of a computer screen. I spent many of those long days wishing I was home knitting and escaping by finding beautiful and inspiring knitting online to dream about.

    Well, as it turns out, the pattern was posted on flickr illegally and taken down shortly thereafter by the request of the original author who, despite lots of sleuthing, I have been unable to locate again. [ETA — the pattern has been found! See the notes at the end of the post for details] At that point, however, I had the pattern in hand (your partially-knitted fabric is the best pattern you can get!) and did little to worry about the fact that it had up and disappeared.

    .

    https://www.brooklyntweed.com/notebook/the-story-of-the-honeycomb/

     

     

    a few months ago I threw all my 16 odd hardbound golden hands knitting and crochet encyclopaedias into the recycling bin.

    It had every aran and other stitch you couldthink of in it.

    Alas my hands get repetitive strain if I knit or crochet and since I stopped for good can do many other things I could not before and nobody else wanted them so out they went.

    Nobody wants old books anymore of any sort.

    I myself used to have thousands but got rid most of them.

    Thought having my own library was awesome but now we have Ebooks and less clutter.

    I certainly still read just electronically.

    You. Threw. Away. Books. If that isn't illegal it jolly well should be.

    well the vast majority of my books I did take to a secondhand bookstore but there is a lot of stuff nobody simply wants these days, esp craft, cooking and DIY books.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,090
    edited October 2017

    Yeah, I'm terribly disappointed in the future of books and education in general.  I've spent a lot in the last 10 years acquiring good quality hard bound books of history, art, music, science that I intended to donate to the libraries and that, at one time, libraries would have fought over to have.  I've done some checking recently and the local libraries even the small ones aren't interested at all.  They say "our shelves are full" and they're all affiliated with the bigger city libraries and if anybody actually wants a specific book it can be had within 24 or 48 hours.  The little libraries around here have basically turned into free DVD movie libraries,  where typically one small shelf is the non-fiction & research section and the rest of the books are paperback romance crap and once popular DVD movies.  The computers are used as game stations for the uneducated tweens and the public area conference rooms have devolved into junk rooms.  I have a HUGE collection of classical music on CD, complete with their album notes (for the under 30 crowd, "Album Notes" are actual documentation about the composer, soloist, the composition, and the orchestra.  Quite interesting information not otherwise easily available) that I had intended on donating to a library.  But they're not interested because CD's are passé, and besides classical music itself is passé. crying 

    I'm sorry, but please empty 200 feet of shelves of the romance crap and put some real books in there. crying 

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • dragotxdragotx Posts: 1,147
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Yeah, I'm terribly disappointed in the future of books and education in general.  I've spent a lot in the last 10 years acquiring good quality hard bound books of history, art, music, science that I intended to donate to the libraries and that, at one time, libraries would have fought over to have.  I've done some checking recently and the local libraries even the small ones aren't interested at all.  They say "our shelves are full" and they're all affiliated with the bigger city libraries and if anybody actually wants a specific book it can be had within 24 or 48 hours.  The little libraries around here have basically turned into free DVD movie libraries,  where typically one small shelf is the non-fiction & research section and the rest of the books are paperback romance crap and once popular DVD movies.  The computers are used as game stations for the uneducated tweens and the public area conference rooms have devolved into junk rooms.  I have a HUGE collection of classical music on CD, complete with their album notes (for the under 30 crowd, "Album Notes" are actual documentation about the composer, soloist, the composition, and the orchestra.  Quite interesting information not otherwise easily available) that I had intended on donating to a library.  But they're not interested because CD's are passé, and besides classical music itself is passé. crying 

    I'm sorry, but please empty 200 feet of shelves of the romance crap and put some real books in there. crying 

    The only reply I can make to that without getting so far over the lines the forums here alow that the Mods will have to use an ICBM just to get in shouting range of me is that I 100% agree with you.
  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,687

    Note to self:  don't forget to tell the snipers to stand down, false alarm.

  • bicc39bicc39 Posts: 589

    Seems like rehab went well...

  • PetercatPetercat Posts: 2,321
    th3Digit said:
    Diomede said:

    I thought this was a thread about illegal use of knitting threads.

     

    The pattern for this scarf is another story too — which brings back other funny memories. It was a free pattern I found in a random knitter’s flickr photostream during one of my many unhappy days at my (former) 9-5 office job with eyes glazed in front of a computer screen. I spent many of those long days wishing I was home knitting and escaping by finding beautiful and inspiring knitting online to dream about.

    Well, as it turns out, the pattern was posted on flickr illegally and taken down shortly thereafter by the request of the original author who, despite lots of sleuthing, I have been unable to locate again. [ETA — the pattern has been found! See the notes at the end of the post for details] At that point, however, I had the pattern in hand (your partially-knitted fabric is the best pattern you can get!) and did little to worry about the fact that it had up and disappeared.

    .

    https://www.brooklyntweed.com/notebook/the-story-of-the-honeycomb/

     

     

    a few months ago I threw all my 16 odd hardbound golden hands knitting and crochet encyclopaedias into the recycling bin.

    It had every aran and other stitch you couldthink of in it.

    Alas my hands get repetitive strain if I knit or crochet and since I stopped for good can do many other things I could not before and nobody else wanted them so out they went.

    Nobody wants old books anymore of any sort.

    I myself used to have thousands but got rid most of them.

    Thought having my own library was awesome but now we have Ebooks and less clutter.

    I certainly still read just electronically.

    Now we have a self-identified devil.
    Threw away books...

    Pancho! My exorcist!

  • PetercatPetercat Posts: 2,321
    th3Digit said:
    Richard Haseltine said:
    th3Digit said:
    Diomede said:

    I thought this was a thread about illegal use of knitting threads.

     

    The pattern for this scarf is another story too — which brings back other funny memories. It was a free pattern I found in a random knitter’s flickr photostream during one of my many unhappy days at my (former) 9-5 office job with eyes glazed in front of a computer screen. I spent many of those long days wishing I was home knitting and escaping by finding beautiful and inspiring knitting online to dream about.

    Well, as it turns out, the pattern was posted on flickr illegally and taken down shortly thereafter by the request of the original author who, despite lots of sleuthing, I have been unable to locate again. [ETA — the pattern has been found! See the notes at the end of the post for details] At that point, however, I had the pattern in hand (your partially-knitted fabric is the best pattern you can get!) and did little to worry about the fact that it had up and disappeared.

    .

    https://www.brooklyntweed.com/notebook/the-story-of-the-honeycomb/

     

     

    a few months ago I threw all my 16 odd hardbound golden hands knitting and crochet encyclopaedias into the recycling bin.

    It had every aran and other stitch you couldthink of in it.

    Alas my hands get repetitive strain if I knit or crochet and since I stopped for good can do many other things I could not before and nobody else wanted them so out they went.

    Nobody wants old books anymore of any sort.

    I myself used to have thousands but got rid most of them.

    Thought having my own library was awesome but now we have Ebooks and less clutter.

    I certainly still read just electronically.

    You. Threw. Away. Books. If that isn't illegal it jolly well should be.

    well the vast majority of my books I did take to a secondhand bookstore but there is a lot of stuff nobody simply wants these days, esp craft, cooking and DIY books.

    Cooking? I had to search forever to find one of the old Betty Crocker cookbooks that had a recipe for deep-fried chicken that my mother used.
    >sigh< Ve Vill FORCE you to eat healthy!

    Seriously, just try and find a cookbook with the old, delicious but unhealthy recipes! I can find them online, but I can't prop the internet on my kitchen counter while I prepare food. It just ain't the same.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,075

    I prob still have those cookbooks, one thing I did keep, I certainly pruned my collection down though.

    the Golden hands encyclopaedia was the only set of books I actually binned others got rehomed at various charities but like I said DIY stuff is unpopular, fiction less so.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    Petercat said:
    th3Digit said:
    Richard Haseltine said:
    th3Digit said:
    Diomede said:

    I thought this was a thread about illegal use of knitting threads.

     

    The pattern for this scarf is another story too — which brings back other funny memories. It was a free pattern I found in a random knitter’s flickr photostream during one of my many unhappy days at my (former) 9-5 office job with eyes glazed in front of a computer screen. I spent many of those long days wishing I was home knitting and escaping by finding beautiful and inspiring knitting online to dream about.

    Well, as it turns out, the pattern was posted on flickr illegally and taken down shortly thereafter by the request of the original author who, despite lots of sleuthing, I have been unable to locate again. [ETA — the pattern has been found! See the notes at the end of the post for details] At that point, however, I had the pattern in hand (your partially-knitted fabric is the best pattern you can get!) and did little to worry about the fact that it had up and disappeared.

    .

    https://www.brooklyntweed.com/notebook/the-story-of-the-honeycomb/

     

     

    a few months ago I threw all my 16 odd hardbound golden hands knitting and crochet encyclopaedias into the recycling bin.

    It had every aran and other stitch you couldthink of in it.

    Alas my hands get repetitive strain if I knit or crochet and since I stopped for good can do many other things I could not before and nobody else wanted them so out they went.

    Nobody wants old books anymore of any sort.

    I myself used to have thousands but got rid most of them.

    Thought having my own library was awesome but now we have Ebooks and less clutter.

    I certainly still read just electronically.

    You. Threw. Away. Books. If that isn't illegal it jolly well should be.

    well the vast majority of my books I did take to a secondhand bookstore but there is a lot of stuff nobody simply wants these days, esp craft, cooking and DIY books.

    Cooking? I had to search forever to find one of the old Betty Crocker cookbooks that had a recipe for deep-fried chicken that my mother used.
    >sigh< Ve Vill FORCE you to eat healthy!

    Seriously, just try and find a cookbook with the old, delicious but unhealthy recipes! I can find them online, but I can't prop the internet on my kitchen counter while I prepare food. It just ain't the same.

    oh  lol's  I did giggle on reading that.   

     

  • MarkIsSleepyMarkIsSleepy Posts: 1,496

    Try getting rid of unwanted crime and mystery novels.

    When my dad passed, my sister and I fought to see who got his collection of science and scifi books and magazines going back to the early 1950's (we more or less split them and then proceeded to randomly "borrow" favorites from one another during holidays), but no one in the family wanted the mysteries he had started reading in his last 20 years of life. Even libraries and bookstores had no interest in 1,000 or so mystery novels (most of them hardcover and all in perfect condition).

    Apparently there is no secondhand market for them.

  • ZyloxZylox Posts: 787

    You can try donating used books to the Goodwill or other charities. Quite often the Goodwill turns around and sells them on Amazon.

    I had a similar experience trying to sell books when my mother passed away seven years ago. She had lots of literature, history, and anthropology books. The mystery books were actually easier to give away here. Fortunately, the local charities were willing to take the books I couldn't sell or give away.

  • MarkIsSleepyMarkIsSleepy Posts: 1,496
    edited October 2017
    Zylox said:

    You can try donating used books to the Goodwill or other charities. Quite often the Goodwill turns around and sells them on Amazon.

    I had a similar experience trying to sell books when my mother passed away seven years ago. She had lots of literature, history, and anthropology books. The mystery books were actually easier to give away here. Fortunately, the local charities were willing to take the books I couldn't sell or give away.

    That's a good suggestion - thanks! I've still got them all boxed up in a rented storage space. We did give a lot of his clothes to Amvets but it didn't occur to me to ask if they wanted the books.

    Post edited by MarkIsSleepy on
  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,090
    edited October 2017
    MDO2010 said:

    Try getting rid of unwanted crime and mystery novels.

    When my dad passed, my sister and I fought to see who got his collection of science and scifi books and magazines going back to the early 1950's (we more or less split them and then proceeded to randomly "borrow" favorites from one another during holidays), but no one in the family wanted the mysteries he had started reading in his last 20 years of life. Even libraries and bookstores had no interest in 1,000 or so mystery novels (most of them hardcover and all in perfect condition).

    Apparently there is no secondhand market for them.

    There's no mystery in re-reading a mystery novel.  (Unless you're missing a few memory chips.)

    Although, I do admit re-watching the Pirot TV series despite remembering who done it.  I watch the feast of old cars and Art Deco buildings and furnishings. cool

     

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
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