Note -- some of these are water stained or wrinkled and many have the shipping label still attached. I don't know the right way to remove them so I leave this task to the collector.

Note -- all shipping is economy mail with combined shipping -- the first book at $7.13 with each additional magazine adding $0.85 to the total shipping cost. Media mail would be cheaper if I could trust the USPS workers to know the details of the laws regulating media mail. Magazines have advertising in them and are disallowed from media mail -- but these magazines have no current advertising and are allowed but you cannot count on the postal worker to understand this detail -- sorry.

cdm–Some notes on book collecting

TL;DNR is a relatively new shortcut to understanding a modern phenomenon – many or most people have short attention spans. It becomes a joke when the N is left off – indicating that it is comical when you actually take the time to read a long article – or in this case – a long Ebay description.

If for whatever reason you don’t have the time or stamina to read long articles or descriptions – just stop here – but if you are interested in some tips and info on book collecting – read on.

Understanding the Ebay search app.

For some strange reason the search engine initially searches only the title of the Ebay offering – but after the first search – on a computer – a check box appears making further searches of the title and description possible.  We create our book offerings using ‘variable listing’ which creates a pull down list for the books.  It allows us to offer many books in the same offering but the list allows only a small amount of text for each item listed.  Note that the search engine will not search the pull down list. Because of this limitation we put the entire list of the offered items in the description. In the case of a list of books — the entire name of the book and its author(s) can be listed. So with this bit of info in mind – to find a specific book title you may need to do the search twice – with the description box checked on the second search.

You should also like to know what a book one of our listings is worth – we have a method for that also.  Two devices will be necessary for this method – it can be two cell phones or a phone and a computer.  Just open our listing and get to the book you are interested in and display the cover on one of the devices. Use the Ebay app on a cell phone and click on the camera icon. A kind of target will appear – center it on the picture of the book cover and take a pic. The Ebay app will then open up other listings of this book along with their prices. Note that this camera app will not find info in the descriptions or item list either and apparently just does optical character recognition of the text in the pic and searches the titles. Note also that it usually finds books that are listed as one book offerings – books in lots or multiple offerings such as ours will not be found. Odd text may not be recognized and I suspect some strange cover designs will also confuse the app. Some of our books will not find a match – which may indicate that there are no current listings of the book – meaning that the book may be rare or valuable. Note that ‘active’ listings are usually higher than the same item in ‘completed’ listings as the sellers are trying to get what they ‘think’ the item is worth. Their valuation may be wrong and it takes all kinds to make a world. Check out ‘Dunning-Kruger effect’ on YouTube to understand the phenomenon.