<div style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 14px;" dir="auto"><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">All that is assuming you find someone who will buy those books at those prices. I recently sold a bunch of my dad's old design books to Bill Hall in Brooklyn who buys/sells. I emailed him photos of the shelves, and he emailed the photos back with the books he wanted circled in yellow. I got $850 from him. Also Peter Masi in Montague Center buys old books.</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Mik</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" contenteditable="false"><pre cols="72" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: visible;" fr-original-class="moz-signature">Mik Muller, president<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Montague WebWorks<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">413-320-5336<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://MontagueWebWorks.com">https://MontagueWebWorks.com</a><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Powered by RocketFusion!<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">(sent via webmail)</pre></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><hr id="previousmessagehr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; user-select: none;"><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">From</strong>: "Rob Laporte via Hidden-discuss" <hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Sent</strong>: 2/19/25 8:57 AM<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">To</strong>: "rich" <rich@tnrglobal.com><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Cc</strong>: "Rich@tnr via Hidden-discuss" <hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Subject</strong>: Re: [Hidden-tech] Looking for value search AI (mostly books, cd or dvd might be interesting)<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hi Rich,</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">I second the motion. For over a year in the murky lower depths of my todo list has been "find AI/LLM to extract book list and values from photos of my book shelves." That first part should be doable pretty easily now. For decent valuations, I suspect one would have to use one of the Deep Research features: Google Gemini's Deep Reserch comes with the 20/mo plan; ChatGPTs needs the 200/mo (two hundred) Pro plan, which blew away Gemini's in a great test I reviewed. But maybe a non Deep Research try will yield good enough.</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div id="Zm-_Id_-Sgn" data-sigid="1535369000000073001" data-zbluepencil-ignore="true" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 13px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size:13px;" fr-original-class="size"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;" fr-original-class="font">Best Regards,<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px; b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;"><a href="http://www.welovemuseums.com" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 102, 147); text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.welovemuseums.com</a><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.artonmytv.com/" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 102, 147); text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.artonmytv.com/</a><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Shakers:<a href="http://www.shakerpedia.com/" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 102, 147); text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.shakerpedia.com/</a><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Helping move the world:<a href="http://www.earththrives.com" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 102, 147); text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.earththrives.com</a><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">_______________________________________________<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: <a href="http://www.hidden-tech.net" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 102, 147); text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.hidden-tech.net</a><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="mailto:Hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 102, 147); text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net</a><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list.<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">page on the Hidden Tech Web site.<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.hidden-tech.net/members" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 102, 147); text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.hidden-tech.net/members</a></div></blockquote></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div>