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On Saturday, 21 May 2016 21:54:48 UTC+1, Rod Speed wrote:

I can't find anyone local selling the dexion slotted tube
anymore and was considering importing a pack or two of it.

I got one when I was building the house and have
now used it all for shelving and need to do some
more, mainly for full floor to ceiling bookshelves
covering an entire quite large wall.

Wood works better for that sort of thing.

Like hell it does. Nothing like as easy to make completely
rigid vertical frames that support the shelves, nothing like
as easy to have slots every 25mm so you can adjust the
shelf spacing to minimise the waste of space vertically.

I should really just guillotine the spines off in a massive
great hydraulic guillotine and use a decent scanner to
turn all the books into ebooks but that seems a tad
gung ho even for me.

I wouldn't be surprised if most titles have been OCRed already.

Trouble is the prices that Amazon wants for them. They are almost
entirely books that I have got from garage/yard sales, mostly for
50c, sometimes for $1 each. Amazon wants at least $10 for most
of them, plenty of them it wants a lot more than that. I dont buy
fiction much at all anymore, that's almost exclusively non fiction
and I have thousands of them quite literally.