Being avid readers, iceheartt and I have a lot of books. we also have books that we're just not going to read again. In particular, I have huge stacks of RPG sourcebooks, and I just don't have the time to tabletop game anymore.

So every few weeks or so, we box up a large rubbermaid container full of books and take it to this used & overstock bookstore called 2nd And Charles (it's actually a chain run by the same company that runs Books-A-Million). Unlike most used bookstores, their big thing is high-volume and high turnover. Because of this, they make really decent offers on the books you bring in, and have a low percentage of books that they turn away (either due to condition or just being overstocked on a title).

Of course, they'd much rather you took them up on store credit than cash, but they so make it worth your while. Last time, we got $90 something in store credit, and this time $70 something. And seeing as they have books, video games, DVDs, comics, comic book shirts, and other cool swag, we can easily burn through all that store credit and still have to fork over a couple of more dollars out of our wallet.

Last visit was especially frutiful because we ended up finding a NES Zapper Gun in the original Shoot-Me-Mister-Policeman Grey, and not the dayglow orange. Even without anything to hook it up to, that's some serious nerd-cred right there. Also found a novel called "On Stranger Tides" which was written years before Disney had ever thought of the Pirates of the Caribbean. Until then, I never knew that the story they'd used for the 4th film had been an unrelated novel first.

So anyway, lots of reading to do, probably going to have to save it for my seven days off.