The Inner Circle Tier has a perk called “early access and 10% off of PangoBooks listings” that, up to this point, has been pretty useless–but no more! We are locking in and actually doing an unhaul! And I decided that follower-tier Bindery members will also get early access–so all of this applies to y’all as well, with the exception of the 10% off.
Every month, I pull probably close to a dozen books off of my shelf to get rid of–whether because I tried to read them and DNFed, I read them and maybe liked them but didn’t love them, I ended up with duplicate copies, or it’s been sitting unread on my shelves for who knows how long and I simply don’t think I’ll ever get rid of it. For the last…several months (years), I have just stacked these books into corners and proceeded to not actually list them on Pango, which has led to the number of books getting more and more overwhelming, and now we’re up to a pretty massive backlog…340 books (and 47 ARCs), to be exact.
My current plan is to list these in batches of 50ish books (about as many as I can do in an hour) each weekend over the next month and a half starting next weekend–which means that early access for y’all begins today!
I’m an over-explainer, so you can either read everything I have to say, or just read this quick TL;DR first and scroll down to the bottom to see the pictures.
How It Works (TL:DR)
You look at the pictures below (higher res pics are in #unahul)
You go to #unhaul on discord and send a list of any books you may be interested in
I respond with a price breakdown of the books (individually and cumulatively, as well as shipping cost, and discount amount if Inner Circle)
You confirm which (if any) books you will purchase by Friday, March 13, at noon PST
I post listings of those books on PangoBooks Friday evening and send you the link
You buy the listing called “for YOURNAME”
I ship the books on Saturday, March 14, at 2pm PST (if you don’t purchase it by then, your book may not ship until the following week!)
Info About the Books
Books are in very good/excellent condition or better (minor shelf wear or remainder marks will be the extent of damage)
Books come from a smoke free, pet-friendly home
Books marked with a yellow star are signed
Books marked with a blue heart have disability rep
ARCs are free add-ons but will add to shipping weight/cost
I have more info about PangoBooks and price estimates in the longer explanation.
How It Works (full explanation)
Things are going to work a little differently for this unhaul compared to future ones simply by nature of how big it is–it would take me hours and hours to price out every book here right now, so instead I’ll post pictures of all of the books below and in the #unhaul channel over on discord, and you can send a message in that channel mentioning any of the books that you may or may not be interested in, and I will price out those books individually and you can say which (if any) you want and we can go from there.
In the future, I’m hoping to stay caught up by doing unhauls every other month or so, which would be more like 20-30 books at a time–in those cases I’ll have the prices ahead of time, but for now that’s not so doable (it takes a while, which is why I intend to do like 50 per week).
However, I wanted to give a ballpark of how the pricing tends to look.
I sell on PangoBooks, so I price out books based on other listings of the same edition. Generally I try to either match the lowest price of the same edition (in the same condition) or go ~50 cents less than that amount. As stated earlier, as Inner Circle members, you will get 10% off of whatever that price would be.
For backlist titles this usually amounts to about ¼ - ⅓ of cover price.
So a YA hardcover tends to go for $4-6, an adult hardcover may be more like $7-10, a YA paperback would tend to be $3-4, and an adult paperback might be around $4-6.
Newer releases tend to be around ½ of cover price, give or take (depends on popularity and just how recent of a release it is).
Special Editions vary drastically. Some are going to be $10, others may be closer to $75 depending on the popularity of the title & edition.
I also have a few signed editions–for the most part these are personalized and/or are not especially popular books, so this will either not affect the price at all (or maybe by like, a dollar), but a few of the more popular signed books (like Powerless & Reckless) can be worth more once priced out. Signed books are marked with a yellow star in the images.
Once you’ve sent a message in the discord requesting pricing info, those books are “on hold” for you. First come, first serve. I’ll send the pricing info as soon as I can, and you’ll have until noon (PST) Saturday to confirm that you want the book(s). If you haven’t confirmed by then, the books go back up for grabs.
You are, of course, welcome to request more pictures of any books you’re interested in! Unfortunately these books are at my parents’ and I head back to my apartment for the week in a little over an hour, but if I’m already gone by the time you request the books, I’ll send the pictures as soon as I’m back, either Thursday evening or Friday afternoon.
I will list your books on PangoBooks on Friday evening. I’ll send you a link to the listing, or it can be found here on my Pango profile. It will be titled “for YOURNAME”. Any books purchased by 2pm on Saturday will be guaranteed to be shipped the day of. I hope to also get to the post office on my way back to campus on Sunday night (my local post office accepts packages on Sundays, they just don’t process them until Monday) or Monday morning, but I can’t guarantee that, and you may have to wait until the following weekend.
I am exclusively using PangoBooks for these transactions for a couple reasons:
It simplifies things on my end to not have to balance multiple payment methods.
Pango creates shipping labels for me, which also simplifies the process for me.
They have pretty great protections in place for both the buyer and seller both transactionally and in terms of shipping damage.
They provide shipment tracking info for you guys.
It allows y’all to use any discounts or PangoBucks that you may have!
The only downside to this is that it is US-only, I believe. But with everything going on here with tariffs and such, shipping outside of the country wasn’t a viable option anyway. Sorry, international friends!
All books are in very good/excellent or better condition.
Books come from a smoke-free, pet friendly (dog and cats) home.
Books marked with a blue heart have disability rep–some others likely do as well, these were just the ones I remembered off the top of my head.
ALSO! There are ARCs in here which, of course, are not actually “for sale”! If you buy any other book(s), you can add on as many ARCs as you’re interested in for just the cost of shipping (approximately $1 per book).
I do have a code CHRONICALLYBOOKISH at checkout for an additional $5.00 off your first ever PangoBooks order!
If the timing of this “early access” doesn’t work for you and you’re an inner circle member, you still get 10% off any active listings on my Pango as well–just shoot me a message before purchase and I’ll throw together a discounted bundle for you.
I’m aware that was all… a lot of information--I warned you I’m an over-explainer!--but hopefully it makes sense! Here are the books (if the quality is fuzzy, I apologize--there are higher quality pics on Discord. Unfortunately, Bindery's interface isn't the best with photos):
