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Getting the chance to read more than I usually do this week, I caught up on a lot of the stuff that had been mentioned on here.
I was given the Whiley book, it is pretty rubbish to be fair, but I did see it through. As in depth as Tony Blackburn's drivel a couple of years ago and building up her part just as much.
I also dug some other stuff out that's been mentioned on here such as In There Own Write and the Radio 1 book.
Some that I'd forgotten about were Where Have All The Good Times Gone, Hitmen and Paul Du Noyer's excellent Liverpool book.
I also managed to fit in Martin Tomkinson's excellent Pornbrokers and finished with The Rest Is Noise.
I'd listened to the audio book of the latter, but the book seemed better.
Whilst being quite pleased with myself for staying away from the computer, I also got to thinking about the music and entertainment books I've got and how there are so many that you can't get now and how I rarely read them.
Perhaps we should have a Word Library in these credit crunch times. Sending books that you can't get or are fetching a ridiculous price out to people who want to read them and they in turn pass them on.
It only cost a couple of would to post and senders would get their money back by borrowing something else.
Perhaps it's too complicated, I live in a Utopian world, the sun shines every day and I never hear a U2 song, or it may lead to "where's my book?" fall outs.
But it's just a thought.
I'd rather loan out In Their Own Write to someone who wants to read it than have them paying 35 quid for it on Amazon.
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A couple of weeks ago...
I lugged around 100 music-related books to my local Oxfam. I just knew that I'd never read them again. Somehow it felt good to know that all those tales of ghastly excesses which had so captivated me when I was younger were now going to help people to whom 'excess' means an extra bowl of rice.
Not sure whether it's possible
for practical and 'legal reasons'.
BTW, Patrick - where's your local Oxfam? I'll be down there this afternoon.
Turl Street...
Oxford!
What about...
...leaving a book somewhere public but not immediately obvious.
If you tell us where it is via this forum, then a Word person will find it.
And leaving it in a location that is appropriate to the book's..
subject matter... a book on Tin Pan Alley should be left in Denmark Street, for example.
Local pie shop
in Bolton, also sells second-hand books for my charity Vision Aid. Now starting with records and CDs. So far they have raised over £3,000 as many return them when read to be sold again. If you use eBay you can sell them free for charity - that's where most of my collectables go now, saving 10% selling fee and adding gift aid in the process.
Public service announcemnt over (sorry!). it just seems a waste when people say they bin The Word CD when it could be recycled. Their perrogative, of course. I even leave my old Words in waiting rooms. Not Iggy (obv.)
A few Iggy covers left down at the Health Centre
and we could save the NHS hundreds of thousands.