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I have a bunch of textbooks that are old editions, and our university bookstore won't buy them back because new editions have been released. Does anyone have any ideas about what to do with these? I havn't looked into selling them online, but I imagine they'll be hard to sell because most courses are now using the new editions. I'm happy to donate them, but I don't want to burden an organization by giving them something that they can't use/re-sell. Any ideas one who would like these? I'm in DC, if that helps.

Rosie, if you're feeling handy, you could try either of these DIY projects:

Book lamp: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/la/diy-book-lampshade-a-real-page-turner-037964

Invisible book shelf: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/how-to/how-to-make-your-own-invisible-bookshelf-018588

I'm trying to find purple-purple interior wall paint, and can't. What I'm looking for is a 4-year-old's idea of what purple means -- the secondary color, red blue. Everything I've found at Home Depot (Behr, Glidden, Lauren, Disney), plus Benjamin Moore and Janovic, is either more pastel or deeper, too blue or too red, or just muddier.

Ironically, one Behr primer has a purple label that's very close to what I want, but its scanner system lands me at deep orchid or something like that--very different.

Any suggestions for a ready-to-go pure purple? I don't want to start mixing my own.

If any of the purples from Disney paint or Glidden team colors don't match what you're looking for, you may need to have a custom color mixed to match a swatch. I think the purple you're looking for is much, much more saturated than anything that would be offered from a standard interior paint line (I'm thinking the color of purple marker or crayon) because painted over an entire wall it would hurt your eyes. Good luck though.

I swear I think that Crayola has marketed a wall paint series, but I can't remember where I saw it.

Alan, Fine Paints of Europe would have it; either in their standard collection or the pantone collection. Like Amy says, what you are looking for calls for something very rich (requiring more than the standard number of pigments) and heavy (lots of 'em), atlhough I doubt it would hurt your eyes... If you are only doing an accent wall, the sticker should shouldn't be too bad...