What do you do with your old books?

The-Doctor · Jul 27, 2005

What do you do with your old books?

Keep them, throw them away, Sell em, give them to friends/charity

Satin and Silk · Jul 27, 2005

I have over 1,000 books - I don't throw many away.

Some are eventually donated to places like the local center for seniors, or to the library for their fundraising book sales.

Nienor · Jul 27, 2005

I keep most of the ones I'm buying now, but have given some of the books from when I was younger to kids at my church and younger cousins. My little brother will be getting some of the best ones though

MrsGnomeCrusher · Jul 27, 2005

People throw away books?! That's just absolutely crazy!

I keep some, donate some, give some away or try to sell them. However I can manage to get rid of them. I'm downsizing now as I'll be moving and I can't take all of them with me. It's quite a painful process.

tqpix · Jul 27, 2005

I'd like to keep as many of my books as possible; even the ones I hardly read anymore. I keep them for decoration purposes; I just like the way my books look in my bookshelf.

amazed_by_grace · Jul 27, 2005

I keep all of my books... I've given away some of my little kid books though, but most of them are memories so I keep them!!!

popslittlewonder · Jul 27, 2005

I usually give them to my cousins because they are younger than me.

pianogirlk · Jul 27, 2005

Caelda said:
People throw away books?! That's just absolutely crazy!

I couldn't agree more! I keep all of my books. I've never thought of getting rid of any of them.

stonetoflesh · Jul 27, 2005

Most of the time I'll try to get trade credit at one of the local used bookshops; any books they don't want I donate to the library's book sale.

Arikereba · Jul 27, 2005

I don't have a consistent pattern.

Nonfiction books, reference books, and 90% of my foreign-language books get kept (I'm likely to reread the nonfiction, and the foreign-language books are hard to replace).

I usually hang on to my fiction until I either run out of space or move, in which case I'll discard what I have to. At that point, I throw them away if there's likely to be no one else that wants it (damaged/stained books, niche foreign language books), sell them to the used bookstore otherwise, or give them to any interested friends... I'm naturally a hoarder, but I move too often to really hoard.

VickiY · Jul 27, 2005

Keep them...unless you mean those paperbacks bought at the airport/train terminal because I'd read everything I brought with me...as those are of variable levels of dubious quality, I try to sell/trade them to the local bookshops, either for credit, or for cash...just to clear out space for more books! I have somewhere around 2000 now, between two houses...if there are no takers there, I drive them to a wonderful place in CT that will buy nearly everything...if no takers there, then the library book sale gets them. Anything to free up that space for.........more books!

StAnselm · Jul 27, 2005

Throwing away books will send you straight to hell.

Nienor · Jul 27, 2005

StAnselm said:
Throwing away books will send you straight to hell.

heeheehee
yeah

VeronicasImage · Jul 27, 2005

I have too many people in my life that can always use them! I give them to friends or charity auctions.

Konnie · Jul 28, 2005

I keep them, even the paperbacks.

jenptcfan · Jul 28, 2005

I keep most of mine, but recently I started running out of room, so I picked out the ones I knew I wouldn't read anymore or didn't like, and traded them in at the used bookstore.

Then I found out about bookcrossing.com where you label your books and "release" them to other people, and I've done that with a couple of books.

There's also a bookshelf at my workout center where you can leave books you don't want for other members to read.

AngCath · Jul 28, 2005

i do all the choices offered... just depends on the book!

lillybug0514 · Jul 28, 2005

Well I could never throw away a book.

If I absoutley loved the book I will keep it. I am running out of space so I am begining to give some away, but its really hard. I'm a pack rat and books are always the hardest to get rid of.

MadeInOz · Jul 28, 2005

I think the fact that I have a huge stack of boxes full of books would attest to the fact that I can'tbear to give away my old books, even though there are a lot of them that I wouldn't read again, but it feels as though I'm losing something if I were to give them away. I'm planning to - when my brother moves out in the next couple of weeks - to move them into his room, and turn it into a bit of a study thing... which should hopefully abate some of the flak I'm copping about them sitting in the lounge room.

chick_for_Christ · Jul 28, 2005

lillybug0514 said:
Well I could never throw away a book.

mee neither! so yeah, i keep all my books..even the ones i didnt enjoy.

What do you do with your old books?

What do you do with your old books

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Throw them away

sell them

give them to charity/friends

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