[LINK] "How to throw away a book"

[rfmcdonald]

Over at the Financial Times-hosted blog The Undercover Economist, written by Tim Harford and now linked on my sidebar, Harford considers the the question that vexed bibliophiles: How do you get rid of unwanted books? The consensus seems to be that searching for specific recipients of books is a bad idea, that in many cases donated books can displace good books that recipients would otherwise have read, but that in order to avoid excessive clutter it's best to get rid of the books before it becomes impossible to do so.

That sounds all right for me. Then again, I've sold ~$C75 worth of unread and unwanted books at various stores in Toronto's BMV chain over the past week. Maybe I'm just trying to justify my heartlessness.