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What do you do with books you've read?

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nkf · 19/08/2009 22:46

I keep most of mine and they are beginning to take over the house. The bookcases are two deep and we are still running out of space.

Shall I just try to toughen up and bin some? I always think I might want to re-read them.

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dottypotter · 09/08/2017 14:50

I get them out the library its cheaper and you don't need a lot of space to keep books.

snoopyokay · 09/08/2017 14:21

I leave mine on the train incase someone finds it and wants to read it!

christmasunicorn · 06/08/2017 12:08

Twice a year I donate all the books I've read to the dc's school fete. I never re-read books and hate having them collecting dust.

AllTheWittyNamesAreGone · 05/08/2017 16:19

I got rid of 17 big bags for life of books when I moved, charity shopped them all.
Felt very liberating

PollyPelargonium52 · 05/08/2017 16:11

Go to charity shop with them. Sometimes it is recycling them back even if I have bought them there in the first place!

Sometimes pass to friends if not.

Just read a really good book for 50 pence amazingly good value for the pleasure I had reading it.

1969angep · 05/08/2017 08:56

If they're fairly recent releases I sell them via "we buy books" website. If I think they'll be of interest I pass on to friends/family. Otherwise they go to charity shop or school PTA collections

Patch19 · 04/08/2017 15:53

Give them to charity shop or family if they want to read them .

alialiath · 04/08/2017 15:50

My friends and family get first choice of the books I've read, and the rest go to my local library which accepts used books, or my local bookshop/café called a book and a bun, that sell used books, with the proceeds going to local literacy projects.

Craigie · 04/08/2017 15:38

Straight to charity shop. Books are fugly ornaments.

BarbaraofSeville · 31/07/2017 15:04

I delete them off my kindle, although I now see that the thread may predate kindles Grin.

I like reading, and have no desire to fill the house with dusty clutter that is books

When I did read paper books I did bookcross one or two, but I never checked to see if they had been picked up by anyone.

BarchesterFlowers · 30/07/2017 21:09

Oops!

BarchesterFlowers · 30/07/2017 21:09

We have got two walls covered in books, 7ft high by 10ft wide x 2, we did give a load to charity shops last year but we still have 00s.

We do give DD's books to a friend when she has finished with them, she probably buys ten a month on average over the year, plus using the library.

I have got kindle and overdrive on my iPad and read from the library but rarely buy kindle books because I find a proper book a complete escape whereas I don't feel that about reading on my iPad.

Shazzashazza · 30/07/2017 21:00

Sorry first day in here.

WeatherMaker · 30/07/2017 20:37

Starting a new thread is always better than resurrecting a really old one like that Smile

Shazzashazza · 30/07/2017 20:20

Sorry

WeatherMaker · 30/07/2017 20:05

This zombie thread is EIGHT years old Confused

Shazzashazza · 30/07/2017 19:58

Hi
I and some other local mums swap books which got me thinking maybe we could have a way of maybe all putting book in somewhere and letting mums pick a book maybe charge something like a pound and if they wanted to once they have read it they could donate it back and then all money could go towards the local kids Christmas party or something of that kind. Has anyone else done anything similar?

laneyjay · 26/08/2009 13:22

You could start a book swap at a local cafe or workplace. There are a couple where I live. You just drop off anything you have finished with and are free to take anything you fancy!

cheesesarnie · 26/08/2009 13:04

thumbwitch-my dh doesn't 'do' reading either!i really cant understand it!

cheesesarnie · 26/08/2009 13:03

im another hoarder.i tend to read the same book over and over again.
i must do something with them though-its getting silly!

thumbwitch · 26/08/2009 13:00

Hello, my name is Thumbwitch and I am a Book Hoarder...

DH can't understand why I have so many. He doesn't do reading, and certainly not re-reading.

I have purged recently though - due to an overseas move - and sent all my "unlikely to ever bother to open that one again" books to charity shops, although I did try a second-hand bookseller first (there wasn't anything there he really wanted). Even with a purge, I still had about 40 small boxes of books that came with me...

littlerach · 26/08/2009 13:00

Read it Swap it is brilliant.

I don't think I get rid of books other than that

We are going near Alnwick in a few weeks so may have ot try that htough.

steamedtreaclesponge · 26/08/2009 12:57

I only get rid of books that I haven't enjoyed - the rest go to the charity shop. Mind you, I love having a house full of books and re-read things all the time!

I mainly try and use the library now rather than buying books - I can't believe how long it took me to realise that I could reserve books I wanted to read and get them sent over from other libraries! My Amazon wish list has halved now.

Mind you, get me near a jumble sale with a book stall and all my good intentions vanish away

madusa · 26/08/2009 12:54

i too use readitswapit or give them away to friends (who then put it readitswapit!)

admylin · 26/08/2009 08:50

I keep most of my books if I can but with moving house a few times I have had to sort out quite a few times and only kept the ones I really loved. That still amounts to 10 removal boxes full which will hopefully be back up on the shelf when we get a new place soon.

Other wise I use dto sell them or give away to friends. I love having loads of books around the house though.