to ask what you do with books when you have read them

[risetowefall]

do you donate or sell them or just keep them

Keep the ones I want to read again and pass the rest on for friends to read or donate to charity - usually one of those tables in supermarket where people can leave a donation in an honesty box.

Pass on, keep, if a real stinker of a book donate, someone else may like it.

Keep the ones I want to re-read

Donate nice ones to charity shops

Give away the tatty ones (we have a local Facebook book Sharing page)

We have a bus stop library in our village so I tend to put any that I won't read again in there. I usually come back with a couple for me when I go 🤣

I keep the ones I really enjoyed (even though I won't read them again) and the rest I take to work for people to read.

Charity shops, recycling if so bad I don't want someone else to suffer, also Book Swap Central which is a great FB group.

Give to charity or pass it on to someone I know, or keep if I think I will read again.
The keepers are very rare though or I'd run out of room. Ebooks are better for that.

Recycle is what I should do with the stinkers never thought of that.

I keep them and I do lend them out, but that's the ones I like. I'll get rid of ones I didn't like asap.

I currently have too many and need to do a big book cull to whittle them down to favourites and ones I will want to read again sometime.

I don't want to sell as I don't want to store them while waiting for someone to want them, so will have to pass them on in other ways.

Some I keep, some I pass on to friends I know will be interested, mostly I donate them.

Keep them. Read them again. And again. If I like a book, then I want to read it at least 2 or 3 times.
But most of my books are now bought on Kindle, as space was becoming an issue!

Let them pile up in dusty heaps all over my bedroom for months on end and then dust them off and give the best to friends and the others to the charity shop. Very occasionally I will keep one if it it was so amazingly, life alteringly brilliant that I think I might read it again

Keep the ones either I’ll reread or that someone I know will read. The rest go into a cupboard and twice a year I visit a secondhand book shop and trade them in for credit so I can buy even more books!

Keep them or pass them on to friends/family.

I buy most of my books from charity or secondhand shops and donate most of them back to charity shops.

If I won’t re-read them then I take a photo of a load of them cover side up and put in the local Facebook freebies group. People can collect what they want. I read so much that if there are no takers then I often recycle paperbacks. I’ve stopped taking them to charity shops after I took box loads that were unwanted as they had many multiples of lots of them already.

If I've absolutely loved the book then I keep it.

Everything else goes to charity or to friends.

My local charity shop won’t take books. Presumably because they don’t sell? Another charity shop says Clothes Only.

My local library doesn’t want them either, even the brand new bestsellers in hardback. So I’m stuck with a lot of mine.

I have a system with my friend
She passes me books, I read what I want to, add any back she might like, she takes them back, reads the ones I have sent and donates the lot to the charity shop while picking up more
Repeat endlessly

I use the library too

Although I feel I should make more use of the library as I do give away a lot of books

I donate any I think others might like to our village book swop box.
If it’s damaged or utter drivel, recycling bin.
Save any my mum might like, she doesn’t live nearby so we have a big swop when we do meet up.
Always worth checking on Ziffit for selling more recent books or textbooks, I’ve got a decent amount for craft books before now too. Box them up, send them off, even if it’s only a small amount it’s better than nothing and very easy to do.

We have a book swap box at my bookclub. Every few months the box gets donated and we start again.

I donate them to the charity shop, about 15 a month.

Keep lots, my mum has some and the rest go into work where we have a bookshelf that anyone can help themselves to.

Sell as bundles on eBay.