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.