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What do you do with books once you've read them? MrFarstrider Send a noteboard - 14/10/2017 07:07:17 PM

Do you donate your books, try to sell them at your next garage sale, or do you hold on to them on the off chance you might want to reference them again in the future?

What is your reasoning for why you do whatever it is that you do with your books once you've read them?

My wife and I have a ton of books that we have read, intend to read, or have acquired but will likely never read. So I've always got this drive to get rid of old books but there's also something in me that just likes to keep old books around. A library or second hand book store would undoubtedly get more use out of them. So, what's your thoughts about your dusty old tomes?

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What do you do with books once you've read them? - 14/10/2017 07:07:17 PM 1374 Views
Bookshelf, loan out, forget who I loaned to, buy again, repeat. - 15/10/2017 02:42:50 AM 716 Views
Hold onto them until my house burns down, then get new ones - 15/10/2017 06:03:19 AM 795 Views
Carry them from house to house... forever. *NM* - 15/10/2017 04:24:32 PM 424 Views
I treasure them *NM* - 16/10/2017 12:43:37 AM 492 Views
I keep a few but give most away - 16/10/2017 02:50:46 AM 756 Views
excalibur is not allowed books. - 16/10/2017 01:12:51 PM 760 Views
I keep trying to donate them, but the other half is a book hoarder. - 16/10/2017 03:10:31 PM 765 Views
You make "book hoarder" sound like a *bad* thing... - 16/10/2017 07:56:38 PM 762 Views
Not intentional. - 16/10/2017 09:17:39 PM 791 Views
Amen - 17/10/2017 02:37:25 PM 977 Views
Moving is just an opportunity to spend days rearranging them!!! - 17/10/2017 08:38:38 PM 771 Views
Rearranging I can dig. - 18/10/2017 09:00:23 AM 794 Views
That's why you hire movers - 22/10/2017 02:20:47 AM 684 Views
I read eBooks primarily. - 16/10/2017 06:51:50 PM 754 Views
They grace my living room/library and home office. - 16/10/2017 09:09:55 PM 677 Views
Some I give to students, some I trade, some I keep - 17/10/2017 02:12:28 AM 707 Views
Use them as toilet paper *NM* - 17/10/2017 03:42:11 AM 514 Views
Really? - 18/10/2017 12:07:07 AM 754 Views
Replaced them with the e-book version mostly. - 18/10/2017 06:20:16 AM 759 Views
Depends on the book - 28/10/2017 12:46:40 AM 1005 Views

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