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They grace my living room/library and home office. Vodalus Send a noteboard - 16/10/2017 09:09:55 PM

I attended a dinner party some time ago at a family friend's new place - very nice and a bit pricey. But something about the place felt wrong, aside from an excess of Marilyn Monroe kitsch. It took me a while to put my finger on just what it was about the house that bothered me. There were no books. Not a fucking one. They're a fun couple, but I think less of them now.

I will say that two or three years ago I purged the bulk of my SFF books. I gave away what I could to friends and simply trashed a bunch of them. It didn't occur to me that I could've donated them to a library.


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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? MrFarstrider - 14/10/2017 07:07:17 PM 1373 Views
I never return the books to the library, or they remain forever on my kindle. I guess I am evil *NM* Roland00 - 14/10/2017 10:30:17 PM 400 Views
I need more characters, preferably 280. That earlier comment is supposed to include after the *NM* Roland00 - 14/10/2017 10:31:22 PM 469 Views
Bookshelf, loan out, forget who I loaned to, buy again, repeat. TyrReborn - 15/10/2017 02:42:50 AM 715 Views
Hold onto them until my house burns down, then get new ones Cannoli - 15/10/2017 06:03:19 AM 794 Views
I hoard them, which is ridiculous in virtually all circumstances. I should be donating them. *NM* Ghavrel - 15/10/2017 07:34:35 AM 503 Views
Carry them from house to house... forever. *NM* aerocontrols - 15/10/2017 04:24:32 PM 424 Views
Nothing. My Kindle can hold thousands of books. They're always waiting for me. *NM* LiterateDog - 15/10/2017 05:50:34 PM 386 Views
I treasure them *NM* Tom - 16/10/2017 12:43:37 AM 492 Views
I keep a few but give most away random thoughts - 16/10/2017 02:50:46 AM 756 Views
excalibur is not allowed books. Aviendha - 16/10/2017 01:12:51 PM 760 Views
I keep trying to donate them, but the other half is a book hoarder. nossy - 16/10/2017 03:10:31 PM 765 Views
You make "book hoarder" sound like a *bad* thing... Tom - 16/10/2017 07:56:38 PM 761 Views
Not intentional. nossy - 16/10/2017 09:17:39 PM 790 Views
Amen Aviendha - 17/10/2017 02:37:25 PM 976 Views
Moving is just an opportunity to spend days rearranging them!!! Tom - 17/10/2017 08:38:38 PM 769 Views
Rearranging I can dig. nossy - 18/10/2017 09:00:23 AM 793 Views
That's why you hire movers Tom - 22/10/2017 02:20:47 AM 683 Views
I read eBooks primarily. The Shrike - 16/10/2017 06:51:50 PM 754 Views
They grace my living room/library and home office. Vodalus - 16/10/2017 09:09:55 PM 677 Views
Some I give to students, some I trade, some I keep Larry - 17/10/2017 02:12:28 AM 706 Views
Use them as toilet paper *NM* Deadsy - 17/10/2017 03:42:11 AM 514 Views
Really? MrFarstrider - 18/10/2017 12:07:07 AM 754 Views
Replaced them with the e-book version mostly. Dakaling - 18/10/2017 06:20:16 AM 758 Views
Depends on the book Danu - 28/10/2017 12:46:40 AM 1003 Views
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