Books do you keep em once read or throw them away?

[The-Doctor]

Books, once you have read them do you keep hold of them, give them away or throw them away?

For me it depends on the book I keep some and others like some paperbacks I pick up at the airport if I'm flying I throw away or give to the charity bookshop

Your views?

 

[MrsGnomeCrusher]

YOU THROW AWAY BOOKS?!?! *gasp*

I cannot throw away any book--no matter how horrid that it is. I used to save most and give a few away. But now I'm downsizing everything that I have and will be ebaying quite a bit in the future I think.

For some of you who like to get rid of books, try this: http://www.bookcrossing.com/ .

 

[The-Doctor]

Thanks Caelda...I have just registered what a great idea...guess I'll be setting a few of my old book free to be found by others.

By the way you get my 400th post as reward

 

[LadyDJ]

I only keep hard cover copies of books in the various series that I enjoy going back to time and time again. The paperbacks eventually find their way to the book carts of the two main hospitals in the area for patients and visitors to enjoy.

 

[zoe_uu]

THROW THEM AWAY?!?!? *shocked and horrified*


I usually check books out of the library, so I just take them back. I'd love to be able to buy every book I wanted on a whim and build a nice library of my own, but I can't do that just yet, I'm still a poor student.

 

[kdet]

I hate getting rid of a book, and I cou;dn't imagine throwing one away..you mean like in the trash????
One of the arguements that my hubby and I have is over my collection of books. I LOVE books and since we move at least once a year he gets a little peeved at having to load boxes and boxes of books into an U-haul. I really try and be good but I can't help myself..I just have to have them and then can't bear to part with them

 

[Cordelia]

I couldn't throw them away, either, no matter how bad they were! I sell them, but even parting with them that way isn't easy I love them too much.

 

[ever]

Anything I thought was good I usually share with friends or give to my sister. Most books I usually get rid of if I don't plan to read them again. Just got rid of a larger stack not long ago and gave them to charity.

 

[TheDandyMan]

If I don't get them from the library, I read them and kind of just let them sit there on my shelf. Maybe my friend will borrow it. Or maybe it will just keep collecting dust.

 

[HiredGoon]

I only buy books I'll keep. If I wouldn't want to keep it, I wouldn't waste the money buying it. Most of the books I buy and read are history books which I often come back to for reference. I very rarely buy or read fiction.

 

[tqpix]

I never throw books away. For books that I don't need, like academic texts that I feel can't be used as reference books for my career, I sell back to the campus bookstore. (Although, one time there have been several occassions where the bookstore won't buy my books back. Most of them were good reasons, but one of them was clearly BS. )

 

[Blessed-one]

to me, what's the point of throwing it away if you spent the money on it?
that is for books that i choose to buy, not books that i HAVE to buy such as textbooks.

i'm buying fewer books nowdays due to money constraint, so even if a book happened to fall below expectation, i usually keep it.

 

[The-Doctor]

Thanks for your views. I think a few of the ones I might have thrown away will be set freee into the wild for the book crossing site!

 

[MrsGnomeCrusher]

Thanks for your views. I think a few of the ones I might have thrown away will be set freee into the wild for the book crossing site!

I'm anxiously waiting the day when I find a book and it has the Bookcrossing info in it so I can log it, read it and pass it on. I've done round robins where we've read the book, journaled and passed it to the next person in line. When you're done, with them all, you release the book.

I'm such a geek because that is so much fun to me.

 

[rahma]

I'm finally moving out of my parents' house (got a real job, yaay), and I was amazed at the number of books I had. I think I'm going to sell most on half.com or try to sell them to a used bookstore. I've got 3 huge boxes of books.

I'm parting with most of my star wars novel collection I had every single one they published up until the year 2000, but alas, something must go

 

[Hikari]

I have way too many books, but i hate parting with any of them, even the ones i have read and reread many times. i haven't gotten rid of any books lately except for the ones i have had since i was a kid.

 

[Blessed-one]

uh, rahma! SW books are so hard to find in the libraries here. They do stock them, but the books are all over the place, and newer SW books are way hard to find. I think they don't buy SW books as often now.

bookcrossing? haven't heard of it! sounds quite useful.

 

[The-Doctor]

Have a look at Bookcrossing.com

 

[MrsGnomeCrusher]

bookcrossing? haven't heard of it! sounds quite useful.

I linked it above. Check it out. It's interesting.

 

[Jenna]

I don't throw away books. I'm somewhat particular about what I read, unless I'm desparate for something to occupy me. lol For the most part, I find an author that I love, and begin collecting all of their books. Thankfully, the house that my husband and I are buying has a "spare" bedroom that we will use as a library/music room. We need the room since my husband loves books as much as I do, and has a collection to rival mine. lol We've already begun to line the books in double rows for storage in our bookcases because we are running out of room. At least our daughter will have plenty to read as she gets older. lol