Have you ever thrown a book in the bin?

if he is into Warhammer, and maybe likes modelling, perhaps he can do what i have done with some books i wanted to dispose of? Shred (or rip up) and papier maché a model or something? a landscape for the armies?

I’ve read some absolute crap on holiday.

i usually take about six books with me and aim to swop three of them but you really are at the mercy of what the other people have.

my DD hates Neil Gaiman and as her act of protest will not buy any of his books new but does buy them second hand. She loves his writing just hates the person.

No, unless it was damaged and past being donated or passed on to a family member.

Used to work in a library so have thrown out a good number of books, the brand new hardbacks that lost a fight with a German Shepherd are quite memorable. The poor bloke had to pay full RRP as damages which annoyed me as ultimately our council got a massive discount from the supplier. That was one reader who never came back then the management wonder why libraries aren't getting the footfall.

Oh Crap. It seems beloved on here but the tone is awful. But I do find a lot of beloved MN parenting books really unhelpful!

oh god that book gives me the rage.
I have (had) lots of books and decided to sell/donate/recycle some. That was one that i ripped up before recycling (the wife in that makes me so so so angry, just thinking about it i am getting the rage)

I’ve had to throw away a set of encyclopaedias as part of a house clearance. It felt like such a waste to get rid of beautifully bound hardback books but they are no good to anyone and take up so much space.

I’ve heard it isn’t as good as the rest of the series, but is it that bad? I had hoped that would be my half term read and was really looking forward to it.

I read a bit of the Da Vinci Code in a holiday house once to see what the fuss was about, and threw it across the room, it was so bad. I didn't bin it, obviously, as it wasn't mine.

I enjoyed the Time Traveler's wife though, which just goes to show...something!

I bought a copy of The Pumpkin Spice Cafe to read while on an autumn holiday, thinking it would be a nice, light seasonal read. It was one of the worst books I've ever read, it was like it had been written by AI with absolutely cringe worthy sex scenes and a completely predictable ending. I threw it in the bin in a rage that I'd wasted money on it in the first place.

Oh I put it up thread One True Loves by Taylor J-R

Yes American Psycho. I was deeply upset by the horrific level of violence against women and didnt want my teenage DS reading it.

What was the book?

I agree. She is such a fawner on her podcast.

I listened to one by accident and she seems to think her listeners are idiots.

I did recently throw some David Walliams away. The charity shops are saturated with them anyway and I didn’t feel too guilty.

In the light of all the 'donate don't dispose' voices in this thread I have checked goodreads reviews of the book I mentioned above and have been validated by the one star reviews: egs

"I feel dumber for having read this book."
"This book makes me feel so fucking pissed."
"one of my classmates came up to me and said that I should smile because I look like I could kill someone at that moment. That's how much this book ruined my whole day"

I mean, I really felt the same way. This book was an affront to all things print and it needed deleting from my life. Donating it would have felt like accidentally recommending it to the universe.

2004 Lonely Planet Guide to Barcelona
😂

To be fair the only update might be 'they have now finished building Sagrada Familia'.

A few years ago I was manning (womanning) the used books stall at DCs' primary school fete, and realised I'd seen some of these books there year after year, and they were never going to sell, even for 50p. So I sneakily slipped a dog-eared copy of the 2004 Lonely Planet Guide to Barcelona into the recycling bin. But some helpful soul rescued it when I wasn't looking and put it back on the table. It's probably still up for sale today

The Bunker Diary. It was so upsetting that I couldn’t have it in the house.

Under the Dome by Stephen King. A massive book with a cop out ending. Not only did I put it in the bin, I threw it across the room in disgust.

Do PPs not understand the difference between an individual choosing to bin books that they own based on their own personal values (or shelf space) - and the state / publishing industry binning or censoring books? Two completely different things. The OP owes nobody a free book and if she wants to put her copy of Neil Gaiman through the shredder, that's her choice.

I have 1000s of books, love books as objects and hate waste but I put plenty of books in recycling - bad condition, out of date, 'must have gift' type books the charity shop already has dozens of copies of - 50 Shades of Clarkson's Thursday Murder Club type books. It's 2026 and any book in the past 50 years will exist in some format somewhere. I don't have a moral duty to some random author to keep their work alive.

On that note, I won't bin it, but I have just thrown All Fours by Miranda July across the room. Some of the prose is good but the main character and plot are so boring and unconvincing.

Shantaram went in the bin, what a pile of poo.

I threw away The Binding. Can’t remember who it was by. It was so upsetting and awful that I didn’t want anyone to innocently read it and be upset like I was. It contained the worst, most devastating situation I have ever read. I mean it couldn’t happen in real life, it was supernatural but even so. Bought in lockdown in desperation because the cover made it look like my kind of book.

I assume from your post that well written porn would be fine!

I anticipated Year of the Locust for ages, bought it and took it to Mexico to read on my holiday. It was the biggest pile of shite ever. I was so disappointed. I also left it in Mexico.

The other one was 50 shades of gray. I deleted that from my kindle. It was badly written porn.

No I always bring them to the charity shop regardless of how bad they are . I once set a cookbook on fire by accident and threw it in the bin after throwing it into the sink!

Plenty I have wanted to bin/recycle because they were boring or I couldn’t get through them (like A Court of Thorns and Roses - found it a bit triggering!). But my grandfather was a publisher so grew up having to be very respectful of books - not allowed to turn down pages or bend the spine! I would probably throw away a racist book though, with the mountains of second hand book available I’m sure someone could find a recent reprint if they wanted