I had my house built 7 years ago and designed a big storage space for books that I had expected to be enough at that time. However, the space is getting small these days and I decided to throw some of my books away. During the tidying up, I found that not a few books remained untouched since I had placed them there when my family had moved from the previous house. I have not read for seven years and it meant that those books were useless. I sorted them out and placed them in the waste box. Finally the amount of books to be thrown away became three cardboard boxes. The bookshelves got neat, but I wondered where I would store these three boxes.
The next municipal collection of paper was scheduled two weeks later. My wife asked me why I didn't take them to a used book shop. I called and asked the shop if they could receive all the books no matter how useless and valueless the books were. The answer was OK. I took them to the shop, along with 10 year old maps, travel guides, dirty books with lots of personal notes on, and so on. (I knew that these were absolutely no use, though.)
I didn't want anything from the shop and I just wanted to throw them away, but I got 1000 yen. It was really nice work.
(Vocabulary)
used book shop / used bookstore 古本屋
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