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Summary: An experienced book collector and online seller explains how to repair flaws in used books in this free book collecting and e-commerce video.

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Molly Mackey Molly Mackey has been an independent book dealer for more than 10 years. She gained her book knowledge as a used book buyer for Bodhi Tree bookstore on Melros... read more

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Tips for Repairing Used Books

Hi, my name is Molly Mackey and I’m with Expert Village. Another issue that’s quite common is we’ll find the owners information on inside of the book. Now if they have a phone number or an address written, something like that, you don’t really want to leave that there. If there is anything written on the title or end papers that you don’t want, here’s an easy way, actually sometimes prices are written on there too and you’ll want to remove those before you ship them out especially if you priced your book more. So you take a nice piece of scotch tape and you’re going to lay it firmly across the markings or writing, whatever you want to remove. You want to leave a little bit of a tab, because that is where you are going to pull and press down firmly like that so that you cover all of the writing, then you are going to take the little tab, press down firmly here and give it a good rip, not too hard but you want to put a little bit into it. There you go, and that takes off all the owner information. Also you want to hold it, the corner edge of the book so that when you rip, you don’t actually just rip right across, that can tear the paper and there you go.

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