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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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pipsqueak · 19/08/2009 22:58

charity shops or readitswapit.com is good and quite a nice community feel thing to it - basically you swap with others chosing from each others lists and wiht no obligation to swap if you dont fancy any of the other persons books - costs about £1.50 - £2.00 to post the book

angrypixie · 19/08/2009 22:58

www.bookcrossing.com/

I release my books into the wild. It's fun, and weirdly addictive.

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nkf · 19/08/2009 22:56

Something has got to live though.

Hardest of all is children's books. Even the stick bashed about picture books bring back such lovely memories.

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nkf · 19/08/2009 22:55

I take the quick read books to charity shops. Often I buy them from there as well. It's the other stuff. The good books that I loved but bought so long ago that they are getting a bit yellow. Or the recent hard backs.

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YanknCock · 19/08/2009 22:52

Sell on Amazon. DH and I got rid of loads this way, and made a little bit of money (we are always skint, so it helped).

teamcullen · 19/08/2009 22:52

If its a book I will read again I will keep them. But most I pass on to friends and family. I always think Im commiting a sin if I throw books out.

Have you thorght of doing a car boot sale or passing them into a charity shop.

brimfull · 19/08/2009 22:52

I am planning a cull some time soon.

FiveGoMadInDorset · 19/08/2009 22:50

I toughened up last year and ahve started to rebuy There are some that I will not read again cos they were awful so will maybe chuck them in the book thingy which you set your books free but can't remember the name.

Quattrocento · 19/08/2009 22:50

I had a thread on this once.

Purge some - get half a dozen big cardboard boxes and decide that you will fill them - then take to the charity shop of your choice

It's difficult though, to work out which ones to ditch.

Any book that hasn't been read in the last ten years has to be a contender for the purge