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Today we're talk-- today we're talking about an application called The World of Books.

The World of Books is something that you can, you can use as like a side hustle.

You can go around and find books and other likenesses to be able to scan the barcode and then be able to send them in to the company, and then they'll be able to brand and package them for you and then sell them and drop the money into your account if you find them scattered about because books tend to be different places, and it's a different home.

I mean, it's a new home for old books is how they sort of brand and market themselves as a way to just pick up a few extra little bit of cash, uh, because of basically their system which makes it easy to just bring it to the mailbox after scanning it through and sending it along free of charge to get paid more or less from it.

Um, and I've given it to so many people.

I get secondhand copies off, um, World of Books.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

A great place.

I can't think of that many films that would still cost £14 to buy after 10 years.

I got it for about, I think, four quid secondhand from World of Books.

Shout out to World of Books.

Sometimes they throw in a voucher.

The question in our modern era, and I'm not sure that I know the answer, what I think the answer is to this.

uh feeling represented by the film seeing themselves in it going through those sorts of experiences you know i i talked the other day about going to see that documentary um about the ex norwich player you know one of the things that the directors said in their q a afterwards that they were most proud of was the notion that there were all of these young people who were either estranged from their families or hadn't come out and weren't sure how to do that, that came to talk to them after seeing the film to express how much it meant to them for seeing it.

And I wouldn't dream of speaking for the director, but I imagine, given the experience of making the film and the experience of his life, that that's an important part of it.

So in that sense, whilst I'm unaware of its availability in the States, it's a shame that it is... inaccessible in that way here not if you can buy the dvd from world of books now it was four million dollars brackets estimated what about opening weekend us and canada october 23 2016

Warrior's Garden and all that information is there.

This is World of Books, but as you said, you can get it on Amazon as well.

Is that?

Yeah, it's on Amazon, Walmart.com. It's on Books A Million.

I just put the Amazon link, but there are other places.

World of Books, which is literally just-

Yeah

... around the corner from me.

So really excited to hear a bit more about your experience.

You're currently at World of Books.

Give us a little bit of background or an introduction to what you do and a bit about you.

Yeah, and really happy to be here.

I did a bunch of investor stuff.

I joined some boards.

And then when the right time came, I had to reach out from the CEO of World of Books.

And we'd had a personal relationship previously at Amazon.

You just put in the reps on other brands.

Um, and then that brand will open back up again and then you can sell again or again you have other outlets like you said you can send it to to max you can send it to world of books we've actually been seeing a lot of people have really good success on ebay recently uh in mike's discord group so you know there are other ways to make money uh amazon is the best for media but it's not the only way like if you have to um get rid of those items there are other outlets yeah you're not going to make as much money but you can still you can make money like you can still make money

If nobody resell dude, then, then there'd be no podcast because everybody would quit.

And then it would just be me and you talking to ourselves.

option now.

But yeah, Abe Books, I think World of Books.

Yes, World of Books I've got

as well.

Yes, I've bought books through all of those when I'm looking for something really specific.

So let us start with the paper because the paper is the story.

Anthropic bought secondhand books in lots of tens of thousands at a time from wholesalers including Better World Books in Indiana, World of Books in Sussex, and Zoom Books in Canada.

A hydraulic cutter took the spine off each one.

The loose pages went through high-speed industrial scanners run by an outside contractor, and then the paper was recycled.