In the last few years, I have sold quite a few books from my collection. The books tended to be international editions, library editions, series books that no longer interested me, or books in the public domain that I didn't need to keep on hand.
Early this year, I published a series of posts detailing how I decided what to remove from my collection.
My Collection Parameters Part 1: The International Editions
My Collection Parameters Part 2: The Library Editions
My Collection Parameters Part 3: Thinning Out Book Sets
My Collection Parameters Part 4: Collectibles
My Collection Parameters Part 5: Nancy Drew Sets
My collection has been catalogued since 2014 on Library Thing. I have tried to keep up with it, but I sold off so many books in the last few years that I didn't remove all of them from the database. I'd like to get that fixed.
I spent several hours last night and this morning creating screen captures of what is on Library Thing, pasting them into a document, and then printing the pages. I have 118 printed pages of images which are grouped in alphabetical order by my tags used on Library Thing.
I am in the process of placing the pages in a 3-ring binder. I will go shelf by shelf marking out the books that I find. Once I'm finished, any books that didn't get marked out will be deleted from Library Thing. This will take awhile since I have over 5,000 books to check. Many of the books are up high and are double-shelved, so this won't be easy.
I can already see some additional books that I want to get rid of just based on seeing the images on Library Thing. No doubt I will pull more books from my collection as I check through everything.
I do anticipate that I will begin selling again online sometime in the next few weeks. When I make that decision, Etsy will most likely reopen first followed by eBay at a later date.
