Advance Reader Copy - ARC

Is anyone here using the new Collector feature on LT? I've been enjoying it so far, but I have a few hundred ARCs and am just curious if anyone else is populating this info for them. The price I paid is often $0 and the List is $0 as well, but the value is interesting to think about, for these pre-pub copies.

Just curious if anyone else is collecting and working through ARCs as well.

>1 trav: I have a few I've picked up here and there, but haven't made it an effort to acquire them.

>2 Glacierman: I hear ya. Have you tried to calculate a value for the ones you have? The Purchase, List and Condition are all pretty straight forward for an ARC. But since I got mine for $0, does that mean the value is $0? That would make sense to me. There are a couple I have that are listed on eBay and Abebooks for $20+ which are aimed at genre collectors, maybe? I think I'm just going to to keep my values at $0 unless I run across an early Carrie ARC... haha!... then the sky is the limit!

>3 trav: The problem is that there isn't much of a market for them. Most collectors are only interested in the first edition (first printing). Only completists or someone assembling an author archive seem to have an interest in ARCs. I find them interesting. I have two Ellis Peters ARCs, one of which I valued at $100 in 2006 based on a dealer listing, but that was his asking price, not what it eventually sold for. The other remains unvalued, as I have no idea what the current market value, if any, may be. I purchased both of them, BTW, back in '93 and '94.

>4 Glacierman: Thank you. This is the very conversation I was hoping to have. I find the advance copies interesting as well. And it sounds like we're thinking about them the same way. I enjoy scrolling Abebooks, but your reply here made me remember how much I enjoy dealer catalogs.

>5 trav: Dealer catalogues! I have a collection of them going back into the late 1960s! Everything from natural history, to incunabula; from press books to Western Americana and pretty much everything in between! Some of the dealers are long since gone (Lathrop C. Harper, John Jenkins,etc.), others are still around (Oak Knoll Books, Maggs Bros., Blackwell's, etc.).

Can't bear to part with them, but I know that very few folks appreciate them enough to want them, so I'll probably end up dumping the bulk of them in the trash.