Books

[TickTockMan]

After you read a book what do you do with it if you own it?



I keep most of mine.

 

[scains]

Stick it back on the shelf until I feel that I want to read it again... isn't that what everyone does...
Actually I know a couple of people who are LOADED and when they've finished a book they just throw it out. Like, in the trash!

 

[Titanic]

I never throw anything out, so I keep them all. Then again, I only read Terry Pratchett or children's books - anything else is boring adult stuff.

 

[TickTockMan]

Stick it back on the shelf until I feel that I want to read it again... isn't that what everyone does...
Actually I know a couple of people who are LOADED and when they've finished a book they just throw it out. Like, in the trash!

I am the only person I know that keeps their books. Everyone trades them off for other books, but me.

 

[scains]

I am the only person I know that keeps their books. Everyone trades them off for other books, but me.

I didn't know that you could do trade-ins on books...

I'm a hoarder so I keep mine.

 

[Orlandude]

I'm a hoarder too but when I run out of room on the bookshelves I purge through all of them and donate the ones I don't want anymore or know I won't read again. Schools, nursing homes and a lot of other organizations (including gay ones) are always looking for donated books. I also give them to family and friends if they want to read them. Often, if they are good books in decent shape, you can find used book stores that will buy them from you. They won't give you much but they will take them off your hands and try to re-sell them.

 

[Sunshine]

I keep every book that I buy unless I read it and find it uninteresting. Then I donate it to the library. =)

 

[hungrybrownbear]

If it's good I keep it.

Wait...

I only buy it if its good, the rest I get from the library!

 

[Swellegant]

I habitually reread books, and I like the look of lots of books in a room, so I always keep them when I'm done...unless a book isn't worth reading, much less rereading, in which case I (eventually, when I clean my room) put it in the Goodwill box. Of course, I haven't given that box to Goodwill, but there really aren't that many books in it, as I've mostly been pretty lucky in my literary choices. But I probably have about three hundred books in my room and another couple hundred in boxes in the attic.

I can't imagine somebody throwing books away as if they were garbage. That's just sacrilege is what that is. Scains, you must help them see the error of their ways and donate their books so that they can go to Heaven.

 

[SonOfSlobone]

I have way too many already that I'll probably never read, so I'm always thrilled if I get an excuse to get rid of one. I turn them in to the local bookstore, who give me a laughable but measurable credit towards buying more used books.

I keep reference works and favorite books that there's some chance I'll read again.

 

[theworldwithout]

I just add them to the bookshelf when I'm finished reading them.

Every few years I'll go through them and pick out the ones I know I'll never read again and trade them for more books.

 

[GL]

i keep my books and usually once every couple of years i'll take what i'm not reading and trade them in.

 

[TickTockMan]

I didn't know that you could do trade-ins on books

We have a few book exchanges here. It usually goes for every two books you give them they will give you one or two depending on the shape of the books you want. Also most of my family trade books with one another.


A book most of my family has read and I am now rereading is The Truth Machine. I recommend it to anyone that likes what if fiction.

 

[JB1986]

I keep my books on my bookshelf. I have gotten rid of a book on extremely rare occasions. Only when I know I will never read a book again will I give it away. My bookcollection consists of books on moviemaking, gay history, coming out books, science fiction/fantasy, and nonfiction books.

 

[braex27]

I trade with friends, or I lend... I find my enjoyment increases when I recommend and lend a really great book and someone else loves it too, and we talk about it...

I have also donated a few old but loved books to local libraries.

 

[ANGEL_FCK]

http://www.cash4books.net/

 

[giftart]

I keep them one side. I love all my books.

 

[teadrinker]

I return them to the library - I've stopped buying books because I've run out of space. The books that I own and read and re-read I leave all over the house - next to (and in) my bed, on various tables and other surfaces; some end up in the bathroom. I hate being more than two arms-lengths away from reading material.

-T.

 

[Lukeee]

I don't read books.

When I was a kid I loved to read, I read every day and I did really well in my English classes but that came to an end when I went to high school. I read about 4 books during my high school years and I had to read those for my English classes, which I hated.

I don't know why I stopped reading but now even the though of reading a book bores me. I find it very hard to find a book that interests me and when I do I sort of forget what I am reading. I will be reading it but I won't understand what I am reading and so it is pretty pointless.

I would love to get into reading again but every time I try, I fail.

 

[NedNickerson]

I hoard books. I still have every book I've ever bought or has been given to me. When I was college, I decided to concentrate on buying only hardbacks and I took all my paperbacks to the Goodwill. But I will sometimes buy a book in paperback if I can't find it in hardcover.

Three rooms of my house have bookshelves floor-to-ceiling on at least two walls. I've read about 1/3 of them... I keep sayng I'm going to start on the others, but just can't seem to get into reading like I used to.

I wonder sometimes if I might have bibliomania:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliomania