To ask when you’ve read books do you keep or sell them

[Dancefloor999]

I tend to sell on

I leave them on the community book shelf at work.I rarely read a book more than once so don't see the point of keeping them.

We have a book exchange bookshelf in my apartment building, so that’s where I put my used books and pick up new ones. They’re everywhere in Sydney and a brilliant idea.

Mix of pass to charity shop and keep

We haven't got the space to keep them so they go back to the charity shop they came from, but I use my kindle most of the time these days anyway, a fiver's worth of £1 books a month.

Keep them if I really liked them, give them to charity shop if I didn’t.

Pass them on.
Sometimes I buy a book I've loved from a charity shop so I can pass on another copy. Sharing the bookish love.

Keep. We've been known to move house to have more room for the books. But I have got better at the occasional cull. Mainly because with house prices as they are we can't afford to move again.

I can't get to grips with ebooks, I like the physical paper thing in my hand.

Depends. Certain ones I keep, especially non fiction. Some I pass on to friends or my mum. Some I donate to the library who either add them to the catalogue or sell to raise funds and some I put in the free library boxes in our village.

If I know a particular friend might enjoy a particular book I’ve finished with I will pass it straight on but I always make clear I don’t want it back so feel free to pass on again or donate to charity. Anything less brilliant goes straight to charity. I don’t see the point of hoarding books. Better to let them circulate and air. My parents hoarded walls and walls of books god knows what for. They only ever read a portion of what they had, and when they passed it took an age to sort and clear them.

I keep them if they fit in my bookcases but when i need more room i give them to friends or charity them

Me and my friends all pass our books around each other, I love it. DH on the other hand is a terrible book hoarder and keeps bloody hundreds.

I give them to the pretend phone box which is a book swap.

I keep them if they're likely to be something I'll read again, or if they have a pretty cover that will look nice on my shelves. Otherwise they get donated to our mobile library or the hospital, or swapped with someone for another book.

I keep hold of a few. If I know I won't read a book again, I offer it to one of my bookworm friends or donate to a local charity shop.

We have 7 full bookcases in the house so I guess we are keepers.

Past them on to friends and family

I assess whether I think I will want to read the book again - if no, it goes to a charity shop.

I tend to keep, then I look at the shelves full of books and become determined to get rid of those I’ve been a bit meh about and take those ones to the charity shop. The ones I know I’ll read again I keep

I don’t know where you got the idea that Mners fetishise book keeping from. Maybe the rest of us are just more fussy which books we buy in the first place?

I never buy books any more. I borrow them from the library.

I usually only read books on holiday. I’ll read two or three and leave them on the book swap bookshelf in the hotel.

Pass them on or take them to a charity shop but would keep a few.

Keep a few but donate most to charity.

I either sell or give to the charity shop. Never keep a book once I’ve read it.

The books I have now, I keep. They are my favorites that I re-read. I mainly listen to audio books now.
I donated hundreds over the years.