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1kayaalder
apr 29, 2007, 2:05 pm

Thanks to mydomino1978 starting this lovely group - we've now grown to 11 members in only three days - not bad!

Since we're all fiends when it comes to acquiring new books, my question has to do with how you all go about getting rid *gasp* of books once you've read them.

Do you:
1. keep every book you've ever purchased and guard them like the proverbial dragon over his hoard?

2. give books to friends and family?

3. donate books to libraries, hospitals, nursing homes, charity thrift shops, etc?

4. trade in pbs at books trade stores?

5. sell your books on Amazon.com or E-bay, garage sales, etc?

6. leave books for others to find them through programs such as BookCrossing?

7. leave books where you finish them, ie on airplanes, in restaurants, in hotels, etc but with no intent towards tracking them?

8. swap books through programs like BookMooch?

9. Other?

My answer is "all of the above" except No. 6 which I've just signed up with. I love the idea of conveniently losing books all over the place and have others find them and enjoy them and be able to track their routes.

In the process of adding my library to LT, I have been culling out the ones that I either don't intend to read or have already read and don't want to keep. I had planned to put them in an upcoming garage sale but I've started pulling out some for the BookCrossing program.

2shenoka
apr 30, 2007, 10:27 am

I do number 8. I planned to join bookmooch to downsize my collection, but alas, it has backfired because I have now mooched almost twice the number of books that I have given away. ;o)

3dulcibelle
apr 30, 2007, 10:46 am

I used to keep everything that crossed my threshhold, but since hubby retired, we're trying to clear some of the clutter (and, yes, books that don't get read are clutter)* So, now I share books with family and friends and donate to the county library branch down the street from me. I've also started sending books overseas. My office has "adopted" a platoon of soldiers in Afganistan, and we send paperbacks to them in their care packages.

*besides, if some books move out, more can move in! :-)

4Kell_Smurthwaite
maj 1, 2007, 12:57 pm

Do you:
1. keep every book you've ever purchased and guard them like the proverbial dragon over his hoard?
Not all of them, but some authors I do collect and refuse to part with them. I have the complete collection of the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett, all the Women of the Otherworld series by Kelley Armstrong and all the Eagles series by Simon Scarrow to name but a few...

2. give books to friends and family?
Yes - whenever there's a birthday or Christmas present to be bought, a book will be included. And I occasionally lend my books to my Mam (a prolific reader like me), my sister (not much of a reader, but improving), and my sister's hubby (a reader who complains I'm the only person he knows who lends him interesting books!).

3. donate books to libraries, hospitals, nursing homes, charity thrift shops, etc?
Occasionally. They tend to be the ones I've picked up from charity shops in the first place. I like to send them back out to visit more people and bring joy to the world. :)

5. sell your books on Amazon.com or E-bay, garage sales, etc?
I sell a lot of mine on www.GreenMetropolis.com - it's an excellent site and 5p from each sale goes to the Woodland trust. I also buy many of my books from there, (they're only £3.75 each, so it's a bargain!) so my account is continually topped up.

6. leave books for others to find them through programs such as BookCrossing?
Mostly only the ones I've received that already have Book Crossing labels in them. I used to put book crossing labels in my swapping books, but very few people ever registered them on the site once they had them.

8. swap books through programs like BookMooch?
I used to use www.ReadItSwapIt.co.uk a lot, but I must have odd taste in books, because come the end, I couldn't find anything I wanted in return for the ones people were requesting, so I haven't used it in a couple of months.

5AngelaB86
maj 1, 2007, 1:42 pm

1. keep every book you've ever purchased and guard them like the proverbial dragon over his hoard?

Mostly. I've done several mini-purges, but my catalog is at the point where everything I have I want to keep. I did go through it recently and found 3 books I don't really want.

2. give books to friends and family?
If they're readers

3. donate books to libraries, hospitals, nursing homes, charity thrift shops, etc?
We donate magazines and such

4. trade in pbs at books trade stores?
yup

5. sell your books on Amazon.com or E-bay, garage sales, etc?
nope

6. leave books for others to find them through programs such as BookCrossing?
nope

7. leave books where you finish them, ie on airplanes, in restaurants, in hotels, etc but with no intent towards tracking them?
never!

8. swap books through programs like BookMooch?
nope

6mydomino1978
maj 2, 2007, 8:46 am

I NEVER loan or give books away, at least not until this last move, which involved some domestic problems and the need for a quick cross country move. I gave away car loads of garbage bags of books to the library, a lot of science books and others to my friend who home schools.
Happily, I am back to hoarding!!!

7mydomino1978
maj 2, 2007, 8:48 am

OK, I just got tired of Jonathan Strange and ...etc. So I have layed it aside, after 500+ pages, and I am taking a break reading The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.
Oddly, I just took a job working on an Indian Reservation, and this book was written by a Native from a reservation, which I didn't know when I ordered the book.

8SqueakyChu
Redigerat: maj 18, 2007, 10:47 am

I don't keep every book I get. I have many more books coming in than going out, though. :-(

I give books to friends and family.

I donate books to charities.

I trade books online at Bookins.

I stopped selling books and only give them away now.

I am an *avid* BookCrosser. Almost all of my books are registered at bookCrossing. This past April, I was at a BookCrossing booth in a city fair where two other BookCrossers and I tried to give away over 500 books! Most of the ones I had with me (over 200) were donated to me by other avid BookCrossers.

I do leave books at odd places for others to find (being the BookCrosser that I am). I frequently leave them on bookshelves of coffee shops I know. I always try to track my books. However, as other BookCrossers know, very few books that are left for others to find are journalled. :-(

I also send very, very many books all over the world by mail as bookrings and bookrays. I also do this through BookCrossing. All of these available books are listed on my profile at BookCrossing.

The idea of sharing books is the best and most fun idea I've come up with over the past few years.

9bookaholicgirl
maj 18, 2007, 12:44 pm

I do a combination of your list. If I really enjoyed a book, I usually pass it along to a friend of mine who has similar taste in books. I sometimes save books to give to my children when they are old enough to read them. I trade some in at the local used book store for credit to buy more books. Some I save to keep in my library - usually favorites or sometimes just because. I donate some books to the local library for their library sale. I sale some books but usually don't have much success with that - I have recently just grouped them together to sell and that seems to work better. I have also considered saving them for a local retirement community but have not completely looked into that yet. I never throw books away or put them in the recycling bin unless the binding is completely shot and they are paperbacks.

10andyray
sep 29, 2007, 5:04 am

#1 mostly. however, i have a couple of thousand i've collected over a period of a half-century and am culling them down and keeping ONLY those I read! There are some I have that may be exceedingly rare (like a paperback quarto with dustjacket published in italy of Joyce's Ulysses poems or a 3-volume leatherbound set published in 1777-78 at Edinburgh and in Fine condition), which I'll sell through (not to) a bookseller on consignment. Occasionally I'll come across a paperback that is just too too gone and I perform a rite of fire in my recycling bin, complete with latin prayer.

11mydomino1978
sep 30, 2007, 6:24 pm

sigh, I joined paperbackswap, because there are just too many paperbacks out there not worth keeping. I am trying to be choosy in my keepers since it will be time for me to move again soon, sigh. This time still in town at least. Hoping to buy a house this time around, and maybe get to stay a few years.