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

[risetowefall]

do you donate or sell them or just keep them

Keep them. I mainly read on kindle now, so I generally only buy books I want to keep.

Keep them. They are mine. They have souls and need to stay with somebody who loves them, no matter their faults.

gathers her babies to her and side eyes anyone who comes near

I tried ziffit recently to sell a few books, though they haven't been processed yet (sent them a week ago..) so can't recommend whether the process is good or not. But the app does tell you if they want whatever book you scan - I imagine the books they don't want are the same ones charity shops can't shift either!

I’ve just put a load of mine in the recycling. I used to take them to charity shops but they don’t want them here at the moment. I’ve moved almost exclusively to Kindle and although I was sniffy about it at first, I much prefer it now to a paper book.

If they're good I give them to my aunt, especially any with romantic or smutty bits because she lives in an assisted living facility and apparently those get passed around like wildfire.
Just average or not to her taste go to charity shops and the stinkers I use as art material

Return them to the library. I never ever keep them so a while back I stopped buying. I look in bookshops and note the names of any I like and request them from the library.

I have this reading record, it's quite tragic, but it's like an a4 drawing of a bookshelf with lots of empty books drawn on and I write down the names of the books I've read. So I have a sort of bookshelf, just not an actual, physical one.

We have a bus stop library so all my read books go there

I keep books I think I will reread, mainly classics or non fiction ( which I read because I think it's good for me and promptly forget!)
Books I've enjoyed get passed on to dd2, who then passes them on to friends. Other books such as thrillers go to charity. We sell a lot of books in aid of our local library and they bring in a fair amount. I buy most of my books second hand or borrow them from the library.

Kids/teens and non fiction to the local school. They are grateful for them. Rest go in an empty phone box that is full of books, free for anyone to take. There's always room for the ones I add so people must take them.

Our Tesco has a used book corner, they donate the money to local charities, it's very popular.

Otherwise:
charity shop, ask local care-home if they're interested in any, or offer for free on Facebook/nextdoor.

I take them back to the library. I only buy a book if I really really enjoyed it and feel I would read it again. All other books I get from the library.

I like the sound of your reading record poster. I've seen various journals people do, they're really cool, but I just take a pic of the cover and add it to a collage on my phone.

I've not donated books to my local charity shop since they told me they sell books on by the half tonne.Small libraries, book exchanges etc are so much better.

The dusty heaps are where mine go, too @Frogdoglog . I know I need to sort them out when they get to the point that I struggle to open the drawers in my bedside cabinets.

After that, I keep many of the hardbacks that are first editions, after once finding out that a first edition of a William Boyd book was worth £300, a few months after I'd given my copy away. They go in a plastic crate and get put in the loft, until such time as I get more shelving.

Paperbacks I pass on to friends/family, or take to charity shops. If they're really shabby, they go to the local tip, which has a special container for books.

For people who like to keep a record - are you on Goodreads? Great way of keeping track of what you've read, how many stars you gave it and what you want to read in the future.

I recycle the stinkers myself. They (in shredded form) go into the garden leaf mould bags

Return them to Kindle Prime, so I can get some more.

I keep them unless I really really didn’t like it (which is rare, and it’s rarer still for me to get rid of a book). I just have more shelves built every now and then because I like houses to be filled with books.

If they're not on my kindle then I get them from charity shops or the local bus stop book stall. I return them there. If I really enjoyed it then I'll buy it for my kindle. I don't like too much stuff in my small house!

I live abroad and donate to a regular English book sale that's held in a school in the next town.

The proceeds go to charity. Only problem is I end up buying a load more at the sale!

Take them to Oxfam.

I keep most of them, but if I don't think I'll ever reread then the shiny newer good quality ones go to the charity shop, the older miscellaneous ones go to the tube station book swap and anything which is falling to pieces or uselessly outdated goes in the recycling.

I keep a few, mostly donate.

But read much more on kindle now

I keep them. We have a book-lined house as a result of the marriage of two people with seven literature degrees between them and an acquisitive bent. Having said that, I’m pretty careful about what I buy these days.

Keep great ones for my teenage DD's to read when they're a bit older (if they're interested), but possibly lend them to DM in the meantime (as long as she returns them and doesn't Ziffit them as she did with about 50 of my books I had lent her last year!). I take quite a lot into my GP surgery as they have a bookcase where you can make a small donation for a book, so that helps them raise funds for whichever charity they're supporting at the time. Other than that, we have a warehouse near us which collects for various charity shops, so we take stuff there as they'll accept stuff in bulk, which a lot of small shops can't (and we read a LOT of books!)