At the beginning of January I started looking into if I could sell enough books on Amazon.com to purchase a Kindle (link). I have raised a little over $70 dollars so far and I’m going to post some more books this weekend. I have been a little slow getting started because I wanted to make sure I could get a few sent out without problems before I started listing a large number of books. I was able to figure out the best way to ship the books without spending too much money after spending more than was allocated for the shipping on the first couple books. The books that I have sold so far have gone for a decent price but some of the books that I looked into selling are listed for less than a dollar. At that point selling the book isn’t worth my time so I though that I would just donate the book to the local library.

Yesterday I ran across a site called Book Crossing that is a site set up so people can leave their books in a public place so others will read them. They provide a way to tell where the book has gone based on a tracking number. I think this is a great idea and for any of the fiction books I have that aren’t worth selling I think I will just leave them in a coffee shop. This way someone else gets to enjoy them and I don’t have to haul them down to the library.