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Old books can make for a fun home-based business while giving you a profitable side business that will make you money and cultural experiences too. You may already have a nice collection of old, rare, vintage or antique books or cookbooks. Cookbooks are the third most popular category among new books and a good one to start with. People often raid their parents’ and grandparents’ collections to find good used cookbooks. To find and buy old books, first check your local library for its “Friends of the Library” book sales. They have annual sales of donated books and many antique dealers line up for these. Of course it helps to know your prices, so to begin with you might stick to a particular category, for example cookbooks. You can usually get books for 25 cents to a dollar and on the last da phen375 y they have a bag sale. Sometimes you can get books free at the end of the sale. But the best time to go is the night before the sale when they let the members of the “Friends” buy cheap, in advance of the sale. Membership usually runs about $10 a year and you can easily make your money back with your first sale. It’s a good cause besides. You want to look for books that you’ve done your research on, of course, but also look for any book from the pre 1900s in fair condition. They will usually get you at least ten times what you paid for it. Also look at flea markets, garage sales, estate sales and auctions. I found a signed copy of a rare, signed Julia Child cookbook with dust jacket intact in fine condition at an estate sale. It was also signed by her husband Paul Child, the illustrator.