BookThink provides resources for online and open shop book dealers, book collectors, and serious readers. Resources already in place or scheduled to be added in the coming months include 1st edition designations and issue points for 1,000’s of publishers; detailed and illustrated book terminology; a moderated book forum; an extensive library of active and pertinent book-related links; reviews of books about books; and tutorials on practical book repair, grading, buying for resale, selling books online and off, building a personal collection, and more.

The BookThinker Newsletter

#5, 3 November 2003

BookThinker Update
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Update Announcements
Important announcements for BookThinker readers.

BookSmart! Are You Cooking the Books? Mold, book lice or rolled spines getting you down? Before you try any mad-scientist experiments with your microwave oven, read BookThink's analysis of microwave usage for archival purposes.

From the Editor

A Short Introduction to First Edition Identification
Is it possible to simplify a topic as hopelessly complex as first edition identification? We’ll try to do just that here – or at least dramatically narrow the playing field to a manageable size.

How To Identify Book Club Editions Book club edition identification can be a crucial step in the process of identifying first editions. Knowing a handful of publisher’s designations for BCE’s will help you spot them like the pros. Find out more here.

Collecting the Science Fiction Book Club
If you collect Science Fiction Book Club editions, look here for a detailed examination and chart of gutter codes used to identify the all-important first printings.

Plus 3 new reviews on BookShelf Previous BookThinker Update - Crossover Hits - Making Local History Books Work Harder For You What does building value into your books have to do with logging? If you sell local histories, tapping into crossover collector interest can pay big dividends - and sometimes logging heads the list of flashpoints to look for.