 Right. Buying used books for your library. I've been working in libraries for a long time, so I've got a chance to work in many different places, public libraries, university libraries, community college libraries. It's only been when I arrived at Branton Technical College that I really learned the joy of collection development, where I've bought a lot of used books. And why do I buy used books? I buy used books because I save a lot of money. The quality of a used book is really a lot better than you think it might be. You get them pretty fast, and it's an easy way to rapidly respond to either unaccepted demand or find something that you don't maybe not have something currently in print. So, saving money. In my library, I save 25 to 40% every time I buy a used book. I do most of my used book buying through Powell's books. It's a great Portland bookstore, probably the largest independent bookstore in the country these days. Other people do it too. For instance, you want the new John Grisham novel at Powell's, search for it. I find a used copy. I can tell the condition of the book, condition of the dust jacket. I know the new price. I know the price I'm going to pay. I know they have four copies in their Beaverton store on the Mr. Bookshelves right now. I also see they have other copies. This is just a specific ISBN. These are other ISBNs, so like a compact disc, new for $45, used for $20. Amazon does the very same sort of thing, and I'll talk more about Amazon in a few minutes. The quality is much better than you think when you say, putting used books on the shelf. Last week, I bought this used book, and I just photocopied the cover, and you can see this matched cover is a copy that was already on our shelf. Little worn around the edges on the new, on the copy on our shelf. New book quality for the used book that we bought at a much reduced price. A good vendor is going to tell you lots and things about the quality of the books. When I'm searching for used books, first, I'm always very careful about the ISBN. Some vendors are not as clear about the title. If this book, for instance, had a workbook, and I just searched for math basics, I might by accident buy the workbook, but the ISBN shows you. I know here student-owned, almost never by student-owned, only if it's, can't get any other copy. Worn underlined, probably again going to avoid it. New trade paper, for instance, used book club, new library binding at a small discount, used trade paper. So these are kind of things that I see, these are Powell's notes, about books, and with that I can make an intelligent decision about, is it something I want to buy. You can get more information about the conditions that you can expect if you go to the guidelines for that service, if they buy books. Now Powell's does buy books from you online, and you can just start at their page, you can see what sort of things they do. Amazon also has a used book service, and these are the criteria that they want the vendors selling through them to use. Amazon, as I say, does mention the condition with a code, also sometimes a description. The problem I find with Amazon is that these are not actually books that Amazon is selling. Amazon is providing a service for these other vendors to sell online. So a like new copy, as described by this person, might be very different from a like new copy somewhere else, is Herman books very good, the same as Daily Deal, very good. I don't know. We have bought some from Amazon. I tend not to use them a lot. There are many other vendors online for used books. Alibris is a nice site that is an aggregator, combines the resources from many different places. Here again, the new John Grisham, I could get a used copy from the Ohio Valley Goodwill, online 792 plus shipping. And that shipping, when you find a used book, you're going to get it fast because it can't be listed as a used book unless they actually physically have it in stock. At Powell's, for instance, I know that their processing takes about one to three days. And then they do warn you it was going to take longer from one of their international or partner warehouses. And once they've completed the processing, then they're going to issue, offer you a variety of shipping options. With Powell's, I almost always use the standard economy mail because it's free. If I order more than $50 at one transaction, takes four to nine days. So basically two weeks after I submitted order to Powell's, I probably have the books in the house. And if I want it faster, they and most other people offer other shipping options up to, in Powell's case, next day air if you want to pay something like $16 per book plus handling. So hard to fulfill demand. Great way. I didn't expect I'd need something. Suddenly popular book, something maybe I don't think I want to keep all that many of. Local high school librarian assigned a reading list that includes immortal life of Henry Delax. We had one copy on our shelf. Didn't know we'd need it. Demand started. We could look and see what's available. I can buy four or five copies for under $10, add them to the shelf in a year or two. If the assignment doesn't continue, then I can just throw them away. Or maybe it's something like in 2012 when Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature. I don't know about your library, but in my library I didn't have anything from him on my shelf. But looking in the used book collection, I could find many things that I could add that would allow me to have a pretty good collection for an unexpectedly important author. So real quick, lots of questions. If you want a more in-depth treatment, there's a citation for an article that another librarian here and I wrote a couple years ago. You can certainly email me anytime. Happy to do that. If selling used books caught your interest later today at 2 o'clock central, how to make money, one of the things they're saying they're going to talk about is selling your books through Amazon. So that's my quick presentation. Anything else I can help you with before we move on to the next lightning round? All right. Looks like we've got about two minutes for questions and we do have some that have come in. Oh yeah, people are seeing them. Really, you struck a chord. One of our listeners suggests that bargain book mole is a good Firefox extension for price condition comparisons between book websites. So there's a tool to use. Somebody mentions better world books. Somebody says that if you look at the Amazon vendor ratings for condition reliability, 97% plus is good. So remember 97. And somebody likes your slides. They like the pictures in your slides. Yes, my self-portrait. Yeah. So, oh, and somebody asked if Powell's would take purchase orders. I like Powell's because I just opened an open purchase order. I order online, they ship invoice, and I pay from the invoice. For us at Amazon, we have to use a credit card, which is a little more cumbersome for us in our internal processes. We did, in fact, speaking of that, we have one comment on Twitter saying that a couple of years ago, Amazon did let libraries start buying used on their credit accounts. So that may be something to look into. Great. And do we have anything else? Somebody says Amazon usually guarantees the quality of what you're getting, and that they do buy a lot on their Amazon corporate account, and it has worked very well for them. Okay. Well, I should like Amazon, since I can almost see their building from here. But I can also walk down the street and see the Seahawks. I'm much more excited about them than I am on Amazon. All right. Well, thank you, Eric, like Laura said, it looks like you really struck a chord there. So that is round three of our lightning round here.