I’m not going to beat around the bush: I will be selling books here, in addition to riffing and infrequently providing “useful” stuff.

This hurts. We love books, we keep books, we accumulate books. We do not sell books.

Well, now we do. Necessity is the mother &c. We have too many. No, really too many. I’ll make clear in a little while exactly what “too many” means, when I go over to our 20-by-10 rented storage unit and take a few pictures. Those, though, are mainly the 40+ boxes of books a close friend of ours consigned to us for resale on eBay, just before she died. And the important books of historical interest and importance we have accumulated, that are there because when we sell our house it needs to be tidier.

Plus, Shalizi left 33 boxes full of his books here.

But we have other stuff as well: too much, far too much, some things never seen again since purchase, or read and treasured and no longer useful. And a midlife crisis or two.

So room must be made. We’ve been making do with eBay, but eBay is best for collectible, rare, and antiquarian works. Amazon Marketplace seems to be the place for modern stuff, like science and textbooks and art instruction and stuff. We have lots of those, too.

So bear with me, and let’s see if the new Amazon thing works the way we think it should:

A Beginner’s Guide to Scientific Method (Philosophy) [Paperback] by Carey… • A Dead Man in Deptford by Burgess, Anthony • Active Portfolio Management: A Quantitative Approach for Producing Superior… • Agent Technology: Foundations, Applications, and Markets [Hardcover] by… • Amnesia Moon [Hardcover] by Lethem, Jonathan • An Anthology of Pre-Raphaelite Writing [Paperback] by Hares-Stryker, Carolyn • Angel by Kilworth, Garry D. • Anna of the Five Towns (Wordsworth Collection) [Paperback] by Bennett • Another Fine Myth by Asprin, Robert; Freas, Polly; Freas, Kelly • Artists by Themselves: Artists’ Portraits from the National Academy of Design… • Beads, Buttons & Bows [Hardcover] by Moody, Jo • Bicycle Stamps: Bikes and Cycling on the World’s Postage Stamps (Bicycle Books • Bilbo’s Last Song [Hardcover] by Tolkien, J.R.R.; Baynes, Pauline • Blood: A Southern Fantasy by Moorcock, Michael • Bronze Mirror by Larsen, Jeanne • Brothel in Rosenstrasse by Moorcock, Michael • Coca-Cola Collectible Bean Bags & Plush (Collector’s Guide to Coca Cola Items… • Descent of Man. an Atlantic Monthly Press Book: Stories by Boyle, T… • Contemplating Minds: A Forum for Artificial Intelligence (Artificial…

…and lots more.

OK, so at this stage I have learned Point One — this should be automated. I’ll see what I can do.

Meanwhile, do please poke around. I’ll try to add more items here as time becomes available. And as far as I can tell, there’s no list of our items available at Amazon unless we pay them a bit of money up front.

That would be a hint.