SueB Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 I swap books with my mum and dad they are avid readers too so when ever we visit I go to them with a bag of books and inevitably come back with my bag full again lol they in turn pass books onto my nan who then passes them on again so they go around in circles lol Having said that I have two 8 shelved bookcases constantly full in the front room PLUS the 8 shelved bookcase in my room Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blithe Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 Yes, I keep all my books. It would be very difficult to part with them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bel-ami Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 Me too, I find it hard to part with them. On that note, I still have many of my books from childhood and was recently recently shocked to see how much a George Newnes edition of "William The Lawless" by Richmal Crompton can fetch. I may part with that one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 I was just rooting through my room in my parent's house (which is basically a storage room with a bed) and I found my Leaving Cert poetry book (exams done in Ireland at 17/18 years which determine entry into uni). It's got a selection of poems from Emily Dickenson and William Wordsworth as well as various Irish poets I love (Seamus Heaney, W. B. Yeats) and critical commentaries on each poem at the end. I'll have fun reading through these again I got an A1 (95-100%) in Honours English in my Leaving Cert, so you can imagine I was really really into it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackStar Posted September 2, 2009 Share Posted September 2, 2009 I keep all my books, I carnt sell them on, because I know if I so then I will want to read them again Although I do borrow books from my parents or friends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted September 2, 2009 Share Posted September 2, 2009 It's interesting because I was contemplating going through the shelves to find some that I might not mind parting with. It would be the first time passing my novels on, but it needs to be done so that more space can be gained. I'll see how it goes.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NovaLee Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 Hmm ....interesting question. I generally have difficulty giving my books away ...they become like good friends and I just can't part with them. I often tell myself that I really should clean out my book shelves ....luckily I'm easily able to talk myself out of actually going through with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimmyS Posted September 6, 2009 Share Posted September 6, 2009 I only keep very few - those I know I will read again after a while. But the majority of books I give to Charity after I have read them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 For me, books are for buying (by the cartload) and not to be parted with under any circumstances. Shameful, I know, but I don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanwa Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 Haha Larry, I do the same thing. I joined up to our library about 5 years ago, and I've been in once. I read the blurb on the back of a book, read the first couple of pages and thought "yeah that looks good". Then shamefully I caught the bus into the city, went to the bookshop, and bought it I'm also known for (and this is even more shameful) buying paperbacks, falling in love with the book and buying the hardback, keeping the paperback I owned originally, and then trawling the charity shops picking up various different paperback editions of the same book. Most of Terry Brooks Shannara series and Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series I have in the hardback and two paperback editions. I own the children's and adult's editions of the Harry Potter series, and there's a really nice hardbacked, ribbon-bookmarked collection of these for a couple of hundred quid in the bookshop which causes me to break out in a sweat everytime I pass it . I have a large, gilt-edged, silver-ribbon bookmarked copy of Complete Austen, a small boxed set containing all 6 books in hardback which are gilt-edged and red-ribbon bookmarked, and I have my paperback reading copies! I have never and probably will never part with a single book... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookJumper Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 Thank you, Vanwa, for making me feel positively well-behaved and restrained ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katrina1968 Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 Wow Vanwa, I stand in awe... I have given away tons of books but have now made it my business to buy books that I will just want to keep. I cleaned my bedroom bookshelf off early last year and dumped 4 bags of books to the thrift store. Two weeks I got the urge to read English Country Manor Murders only to remember that I had once got that book for FREE, now I had to purchase it! Lesson learned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessi Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 I admit, I keep my books. Even if I am not sure if I am going to read them again, they are just, I dunno, precious to me. I love my books. However, my book case is now over flowing and spilling on to my desk! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shin Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 I have always kept my books and never thought of parting with them. But now it is getting to the point I have limited space so I have organised the ones that I will never read again and keep the ones that I love. I have started using Green Metropolis, that way I can save a few trees but any books I sell I use the money to buy other books. :mrgreen: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fayezie Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 I've kept all mine, but I think the ones I really haven't enjoyed I'll either sell or give to a charity shop as I won't read them again and I'm running out of room!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 I simply cannot get rid of them. I'd rather gnaw my right arm off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Book Fiend Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 I only get rid of books if a) they're rubbish (luckily there are very few of these) or I have absolutley no space left so have to go through the very painful experience of sorting through my bookcase for the books I can bear to part with. I'm very bad at buying and keeping books, to the point where if I get a book out of the library or somebody lends me one and I really enjoy it, I will go out and buy it (I therefore have books that I have read, I just haven't read the copy that I own!) I also have books that I bought years ago and now my tastes have changed slightly and I don't really like the sound of them that much anymore, but I haven't read them yet and I can't get rid of a book I haven't read so they just sit on my shelf gathering dust! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ned Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 I keep almost all my books. I have the luxury of quite a big spare room so space has never been a problem. The only time i give books away is when my sister is looking for items for school jumble sales or one of her charity car boots, then i fill a box with books i didn't enjoy or ones that i know i won't read again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Dawkins Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 I used to give all my read books to charity shops, but now I keep them all as I replaced a lot of the books I gave away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
partyanimal1980 Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 keep all my books, some i give as presents!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magicberry Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 Both!!! I have over 400 books and I've actually read about 200 of them, and there are only 2 books that I absolutely thought were just plain plotless and that I definitely don't feel the urge to keep them. But so far, I keep all my books. haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kikee Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 Books that I have really enjoyed I tend to keep. Some I give to friends to read or I give some away to my line dancing club which sells them and the money made goes to cancer charities. I do still have books that I read as a child, which some day I would like to pass onto my children. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green_Shoe Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Some of my books were lost somewhere on the bookshelves of my friends. I don't want anyone (well, except my family) to borrow my books any more. There are good libraries here, in case they don't want to buy a book but want to read it. I am collecting the books I like and need, it's a pity when they disappear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atticjnr Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Generally, I keep all of mine however if it is something I have really hated, I will get rid of it. In order to create more space, I have recently given away doubles I have and just kept the edition I liked the most. (Got rid of LOTR all in one book because I have the individual three and found that I wasn't keen on taking a huge book on the train or to Uni). I don't think I could bring myself to bin a book, unless it was unreadable for whatever reason, though. Books have become a bit of a habit for me now and I can't help myself, especially in second hand book shops and charity shops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
libri vermis Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 A good book is like a good friend. Both are valuable to me, so I like to visit with them as much as possible. A book I don't like I either sell or donate to the library. It might be a good friend to someone else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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