Michelle Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 Do you keep all the books you buy or do you sell/give them away? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Posted January 8, 2006 Author Share Posted January 8, 2006 I have just a few that I keep - most of which I have already read more than once, and feel I will read again. Most of mine end up at a book fair, or given to a charity shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freewheeling Andy Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 I think I've only ever lost about 10 books, and they were loaned and not returned. I really ought to take a more sensible attitude, but I hate the idea of not being able to go back to a book if I remember an important passage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maureen Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 I used to keep them all.....now I have to share my space, I cannot do so anymore. (Apart from the fact that they were getting out of hand!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inanna Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 I too used to keep them all, then one day I just bagged stacks up and gave them away :shock: Now I wished I'd kept them and sold them on ebay or something, I could have made lots of money to buy more books. Nowadays I get alot of books from the library, but the ones I do buy I tend to sell as I find it hard to reread a book, once is generally enough for me, seeing as there are so many books I want to read, I'd never get through them if I kept rereading everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Posted January 8, 2006 Author Share Posted January 8, 2006 I'm fed up with ebay - I pay out all the fees, then no one wants my stuff, or buys it for 99p! :grr: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angel Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 I generally keep all my books. I did sell some about 8 yrs ago and I deeply regret it 'cos I now want to read them!!!! :oops: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 I keep most of mine as I like ot be able to go back & reread them. Many are gifts too, so I feel like it'd be a bit of a slap in the face to pass them on (unless I really didn't enjoy them - LOL!). Occasoinally I have a clearout to make room for new books & in the past they either got sold or sent to a charity shop. Recently, though, I've gotten into swapping, so I'm not really clearing much space, but still getting new books - LOL! Still, it's a great way to try out new authors without having to hand over loads of cash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inanna Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 I'm fed up with ebay - I pay out all the fees, then no one wants my stuff, or buys it for 99p! :grr: LOL that happens alot with books, saying that the last few I have bought have cost me near on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jake Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 I keep all my hardback books, but generally give away the paperbacks. If I like an author I tend to collect their books in hardback. Although at the moment all of our books are packed away apart from the ones bought recently. We desperately need more bookcase space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leah Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 I keep the books by the authors I love and read faithfully no matter what but anything else I tend to get rid of. If I know I'm never going to read it again there is absolutely no point in me keeping it. So I either give them to a used book store (most of them here tend to give you store credit so you can buy books there for cheaper) or give them away to someone who wants them. I'm not picky about these either, if they're hardback and I'm not going to touch them again they go. The only hardbacks I buy that are expensive are by the authors that I love so I'm not going to get rid of those. The biggest problem I have with being such a bookworm is I always seem to run out of space. I had 4 bookshelves in our apartment, then we had to cut back due to more limited space and adding a baby to the household so I cut back to 2 and am about to cut back further because I have no room to get more of my favorites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acesare* Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 Yes! I'm weird like that, although I did leave a load of books at home when I moved out. Unfortunately, every time I go back I seem to talk another one home with me! Jo xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 I’m finding that I keep fewer books these days. Unless I really adore them, they’re getting passed on, whether via sale or swap. It used to be much more of a wrench to have a clear out when the shelves got too full and the cupboards were bursting, but I recently barely blinked an eye when I took about 30 books off my TBR pile and decided not to read them after all, but to give them a chance at a home where they’ll be loved. Not so long ago, I couldn’t have done that at all! However, I still keep books that are gifted to me and books that are part of a series that I particularly like (all my Pratchetts, Scarrows and Armstrongs are staying put, I’m afraid!) and I occasionally get one through a swap that I decide I’ll want to read again at some point in the future… My Dad is going to be moving within the next few months and will be clearing out his loft. No doubt I’ll have to sort through more books! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugar Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 My books are mine - hand off! I occassionally bookcross books - but they tend to be books that I end up with duplicates of, or things that were given to me that I didn't really connect with. The dream is to make sure the house that we buy (eventually!) has an extra room to keep my books in!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1sillywabbit Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 I keep most of mine, do swap the odd double... Did try to reduce them a little while back and took a whole boxfull to the charity shop, hate to admit it, :oops: but next day I went in and bought a lot of them back wabbit x :wave: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronny Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 I keep many of my books, to lend to others or reread if I enjoyed them. If I didn't really like them enough to share or reread I give them away, I usually do a BookCrossing wild release but no one has claimed to have caught them yet, maybe I should leave better books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 I keep them all. Well, I occasionally give friends books, but only friends I know will take care of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 I keep my books, although I have given the odd couple to friends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icecream Posted September 14, 2006 Share Posted September 14, 2006 I don't like giving books away, but am more than happy to lend them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted September 14, 2006 Share Posted September 14, 2006 Ah, now lending.....a friendly thing to do. However I have had unfortunate experiences with lending, so try to avoid it. If I do lend a book, I count it as gone in my mind. I do enjoy giving someone a book I know they will enjoy though. Almost as good as getting one myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogmatix Posted September 14, 2006 Share Posted September 14, 2006 Mine, mine mine, mine!!!!! Think Golum and that precious ring. For me books are a comfort and I hoard them. Lending...... rare for me. They NEVER come back. I've bought three copies of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime because I keep lending it out and it keeps disappearing. I try to buy only hardbacks when possible and I have no problem with used so that saves me some money. However if it came down to a choice between books and food, books would win, hands down. One bright side; when I die someone is going to get an amazing hard cover book collection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renniemist Posted September 14, 2006 Share Posted September 14, 2006 Sometimes I lend books to friends, but like Pontalba I don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icecream Posted September 14, 2006 Share Posted September 14, 2006 Well I have lent about seven books to a friend at church. He might keep them for ayear or two until he has passed them round his wife and children, but they always come back. My sister is reading a couple too. I am just anxious about the Da Vinci Code that I lent to a Christian friend at uni not long before I left. I kepp sending her texts (as a gentle reminder) asking what she thinks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted September 14, 2006 Share Posted September 14, 2006 I don't mind lending but people always want my favourite books. They always pick up my brand spanking new copies that are really for show and only to be read with gloves on!! They are never interested in the large pile of scruffy paperbacks by the bed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icecream Posted September 14, 2006 Share Posted September 14, 2006 They always want my fave books too. I wanted to reread LOTR two years ago, but Allen and his family had them for ages. Now my to read list is too long, and growing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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