Book Club

[hummermom]

@Tigriss Here's the link to contact the New York Public Library on line:

https://www.nypl.org/get-help

[sidsmom]

Half Price Books, based here in Dallas,

is a HUGE resell/2nd hand bookstore in DFW & the entire state.

If you go to their website, by the same name, 

there's a Customer Care # to call.

Maybe they have something which could be shipped.

HTH!

[software]

Talk to the librarian at a local college.

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@Tigriss wrote:

I have scoured the internet searching for updated library sized dictionaries to purchase for work.  I work in a prison and finding dictionaries that are large enough to not be smuggled out of the classroom in someone's pants or shirt are hard to find.  We want to purchase the giant library dictionaries of old, but finding modern ones are hard, as dictionaries are all online now.  You can find them on ebay, but they are old, and we need modern ones. We aren't allowed internet, so dictionaries are like gold to inmates.  Is there a bibliophile out there that knows what their proper name is or where to get one/several or an ISBN of one or a vendor (not the big A, I've been all over it)?  

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[Tigriss]

@hummermom Thanks! I'll put in the same email I did to betterworldbooks. Hopefully them and the libraries I've emailed and the library supply companies will produce something, but I'm getting a sinking feeling that companies don't publish them any more due to their cost and the internet.

[Tigriss]

@sidsmom I'll contact them like I did betterworldbooks. Hopefully, one of them will have an answer.

[Tigriss]

@software We do have a local community college. I'll call them tomorrow to see if their librarian knows anything. Great idea!

[Goldengate8361]

Amazon.

[Tigriss]

@Goldengate8361 Typing in dictionary in Amazon gets you lots of different responses but none are the giant 10 in+ thick dictionaries you find in the library. The ones that weigh 10+ pounds. Those are what we are after. Thanks again!

[jackthebear]

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@Tigriss wrote:

I have scoured the internet searching for updated library sized dictionaries to purchase for work.  I work in a prison and finding dictionaries that are large enough to not be smuggled out of the classroom in someone's pants or shirt are hard to find.  We want to purchase the giant library dictionaries of old, but finding modern ones are hard, as dictionaries are all online now.  You can find them on ebay, but they are old, and we need modern ones. We aren't allowed internet, so dictionaries are like gold to inmates.  Is there a bibliophile out there that knows what their proper name is or where to get one/several or an ISBN of one or a vendor (not the big A, I've been all over it)?  

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how active are you on social media?  that can get you lots of help. 

Our town has a Facebook Page where people ask for and exchange information, is this something that is available to you?

A senior service project in high school? Eagle scouts ?

they could provide dictionaries for many inmates

[LTT1]

@Tigriss

Are you in Texas, by any chance? I have a few sources, which I will check anyway.

The cost of mailing large heavy books... is that a problem or is it covered?

I'd like for them to have as many books as possible. Reading could be the key to a successful future for them?