Originally Posted by JaneSmith
P.S. I should add that my children frequently prefer to re-read books. That, and the fact that we have been given several whole sets of Great Books-type collections lessens the amount of work I need to do just to "feed the fire"

I've had generally-good results with "giant box of teacher classroom books" on ebay. For me, a good price is $1 per book, inclusive of shipping.

I do find that I need to pre-read, and sort for appropriateness. My piles are "fine for now," "you'd be able to read the words, but might not understand the motivations," and "IMHO this book is inappropriate to read without extensive guidance." The last category is mostly racist stuff - older Newbery books in particular tend to be stupidly racist (as opposed to intentionally racist).

We have the same issue with library books. smile