To think that there should be some kind of book scrappage scheme?

[TheCunnyFunt]

You send your books of choice away and recieve the same book back on your kindle for free!

I'd love a kindle so I can declutter the bookcase but don't want to have to buy all my books again :(

It would be great if someone did start a scheme like that.

Does anyone do a scheme like that?

Or you could try bookcrossing :)

www.bookcrossing.com

That is an awesome idea. You should suggest it to Amazon.

I've traded in some books through Amazon, but they do have certain standards about the state of the book, so nothing which has been read in the bath! (damn)

There's always Freecycle as well, or those bookshelves in pubs/B&Bs...

Have a look for free e-books and you might be suprised how many are free (or cheap).

I think books should come with a code on the recipt that you put into an e-reader so you have a paper and PDF file

But why would they do this? No-one will give you a DVD in exchange for your old video (and video to DVD transfer services cost significant money).

All the books I have, I have kept. My kindle is for new and free books.
if you want rid of your old books, sell them and use the money for your kindle.

McHappyPants, if they did that then what would stop you giving your paper copy to someone else?

Also VAT is charged on e-books not print books and digital rights are treated separately to print rights (as are film rights, TV rights etc).

Same as DPrince.

Get rid of books?

Well I thought it was a good idea.

You can trade books in to Amazon and they give you a voucher back?? I made £35 doing this last month after a clearout :)

I sell books that I am not going to read again via Amazon. I use the profits to buy kindle versions of other books. Many books can only be sold for pennies, if there's no profit in it then they go to the charity shop.
I used to shudder at the thought of getting rid of books, but having the extra space makes up for any misgivings.

I have a kindle but often use it just to read samples, if I like the sample I buy the paper book from amazon and then re sell it as soon as I've read it (unless I think I'm likely to want to read it again)

That way my reading habit costs me hardly anything:)

I can't get over this concept of getting rid of books either. When the book case fills up you move the furniture around so that you have space to fit in another. Surely!

But then I have no desire for a kindle. At all.

5foot5, I can't believe you never finished a book you didn't want to read again. I have plenty I do want to read again, but what if I don't? It's not practical to keep all of them!

P.S. DH and I have five bookcases between us, and possibly hundreds still in storage, so we're not philistines!