Marley and Me question

I see no point in keeping books I didn't like and or know I'll never read again. I keep the ones I would wants my daughter to read, though. We DO NOT have the space to keep every book, so I sell them via Amazon and donate the cash to the American Cancer Society. That way, someone else can give the books new life, and my favorite charity gets some cash.

Holly wrote: "Do you sell your books?
Give them away to family, friends, colleagues?
Trade them for other books?
Donate them to your local library, Church, or favorite Charity that accepts books? and other readi..."

I keep all of my books. I'm only 16 right now so I'm still beginning to collect my books.

This issue has come to a head here recently, as my single apartment was remodeled and everything that once fit in it (albeit, barely) won't anymore. I truly need more accommodating bookshelves. I truly enjoy having my own thorough library, and am having to give away at least a dozen big boxes of books (back to the library, where most of them were purchased in the book sale room to begin with.) I am mad in love with books! I love to hold and touch them, to read bits of them, I think they are beautiful objects, and, oh, the stories, the stories, the stories! And the learning! And all the wonderful, wonderful authors. A book is a friend.

I usually give my paperbacks to the library, but the hardcover ones ikeep. Books are very expensive today and letting them go seems like a waste of money. If i had alot of money i would buy a house with a library so everyone could enjoy it!

It seems as if the group is fairly split on this topic. I guess you would have to call me a bookaholic. I have three six foot tall bookcases in my bedroom and just outside my dining room I have six four foot tall ones. The bottom shelves of these hold LP's - that's quite a collection in itself - nd the rest of the shelves hold book. My kindle has hundreds and hundreds, with lots more in the cloud. So you see, I can jusy NEVER get rid of a book in any format.

I just took about 15 books to trade at a local used bookstore. One of them was Marley and Me! I donate to local libraries or trade them. I dislike Half-Price Books. They give crappy trade IMO. You're much better off going to a locally owned used bookstore. Prosperos in Kansas City is awesome. I used to do BookCrossing but hated the ambiguity of where my books ended up.

I gave five boxes of children books to a relative when my children outgrew them. I found out later when my daughter had her kids and asked for them that they did not have them because they sold them already. I was expecting the books would go the round within the family. Someone cashed them in. I was not too happy with that so I decided I will never give my books again to anyone. I will donate some books I don't care to an organization that can use the cash.

I have gotten rid of books in the past because of lack of room or thinking that I would never read the books, but I have regretted getting rid of every book that I ever have and I'm going to get them back. I hate getting rid of my books, because I always regret doing so. I will keep all of the books I buy from now on, though :)

I donate them to the library. Tax write off and they get to store them. :-)

I collect and collect. hate losing. hate giving away. Have a roomful now and my family laughs that i can probably never move from here ever, unless i am willing to give them up. Also have about 10 years worth of national geographics and readers digests :)

I drop them off in Little Free Libraries all over town. That way, other people who love to read can enjoy them for free.
Check out this website to see if there are Little Free Libraries in your town. http://littlefreelibrary.org/

I give away books I've read that I didn't care for. I keep the ones I love and I save ALL older books!

It depends on the books. If I really had a connection to the story, or depending upon what was going in my life, I wouldn't give it away. I do however participate in an exchange around my family and friends with books so we swap quite often.

I give some books to my friends and donate the rest. If I am not going to read a book again, I usually try to find someone who will.

I donate to the library or give them to friends.

If I can recommend them to others I keep them. If I can't I have an annual used book sale to benefit the American Heart Assoc. It includes my books and donations from many of my friends and family.

Imagine you are the director of a small town library with a relatively small building where for each "new" book you acquire you must eliminate an older book to make space on the shelves. If ongoing circulation is sufficient, perhaps you can "own" more books than for which you have shelf space, but you still have reached the point of "buy one, toss one" ... what do you say to someone wanting to donate no longer in demand titles? (We gave the donations to the "Friends" ...)

I never read the same book twice, but I usually keep my books anyways. The books I absolutely hated and wasn't a huge fan of, I just donate to my local library. I never thought to sell them on Amazon, but I may do that with the books that are still in good condition.

I keep book series by 5 or 6 favourite authors. I used horde everything but then I discovered BookCrossing.com & now my books travel the world finding new readers :o)

http://www.bookcrossing.com/mybookshe...

I donate them, loan them, give them away, but will not sell them. I have books that have so much dust on them that when the archeologists come and explore my house, they will write a book just on my dust collection. It pains me to get rid of books. They also have to be paper. I am not a fan of ebooks.

I can't keep all of my books either, so I try and pass them on to people until they cry uncle. I am now feeding fifteen separate people constantly and many more than that periodically.

I now save first editions for the future. I have no idea what I am going to do with them because I will never sell them, but maybe a future generation...

I have thrown them out, but only after they are basically destroyed when no one wants them and that really hurts. Even old text books that nobody will ever want are painful to be rid of.

I haven't been able to bring myself to give any books away. They are my trophies and it makes me proud every time I walk by my bookshelf. I've been listening to a lot of books on tape and think I might start buying the paper copies to add to my shelf too...

Nope, Because one day we will live in a world with few books and all our reading material will be on a tablet device. I NEVER give away my books, so when books become scarce some people can still experience the feeling of holding a novel and smelling the scent of a book. How this relates to giving them away? well if i give them to a library and some high authority wants no books anywhere the first thing he/she will do is destroy the libraries. This is just one of my many predictions of the future! ^_^

I do the books that I know I'll only read once. I prob keep about half and donate about half.

I give away the books that I didn't particularly like or that I know I don't want to read again, even if I liked them.

I usually donate them to the local library or the local League of Women Voters for their books sales. Unfortunately I bring a bag to donate and come home with 2 bags. I am out of bookcase space and am trying to weed my shelves but it is hard for me to part with books. I could never have any of my own as a child and I was a voracious reader.

My book shelf has become my lending library for family and friends. So I keep books that may interest others and less inteesting I give to the library. If it is not worth while to either, I throw it away.

Teh books that I really dislike end up recycled as logs for the fireplace in wintertime.
Some that I may dislike but think a friend or family "might" like ends up in their hands.
Most of what I DO like is kept on the shelves gathering dust year after year... I figure when I die, they can a paier-maché cofin out of em for me and bury me in it... that way they also get to be recycled ;-)

I cannot throw books away, even if they are trash. So if I I really hate a book I will probably sell it or something, but at the moment my bedroom contains more books than our public libraries' teen section so...yeah...

I keep my faves that I know I will re-read (I'm a huge re-reader), but books that I didn't enjoy or aren't in the re-read pile go to my mother, sister, co-workers or I donate to the library or good will. I have never thrown a book away.

This is a hot topic at our house. I live with two hoarders, my younger daughter and husband. Our downstairs and bedrooms are lined with books, and so is my husband's den. Once you have purchased a certain number of books, hard choices have to get made unless you are going to find a larger home in which to store them all! We have bookshelves two books deep in some places, which is awful when you want to get to a book back behind. So we try (TRY) to keep nonfiction that we think we may refer back to; classic literature; favorite writers; and then yes, YES! Some HAVE to go.

I have tried reselling books and it's a good way to end up pissed at a favorite used bookstore. It is never worth it! I pass on spares to friends and family members who want them, and the rest we take (for now anyway) to an annual book exchange hosted by my daughter's high school. We haul in boxes and bags of books, then later in the day we can go to the gym and haul away whatever strikes our fancy. I've found great new authors that way.

I am not sure what we will do when my daughter finishes high school!

Noting where the post started: I totally gave Marley and Me away. Meh. Why hang onto it? But it is so much fun to match a book that we aren't keeping with the right recipient!

Holly, Where you trying to compare "getting rid" of old books to "getting rid" of a dog? Is that why this post is in this particular section? Are they comparable?

I don't think book lovers should have to get rid of their books. I had to pare down my collection in the fall and it was so hard. I took them to half price books. I dream of a house with bookcases :)

I trade my books that I don't like away. I keep the ones I like the best. The ones I post for trade are so I can get something else,

I can't, I just can't! Books are like my babies. They're all just filled with memories and stories and oh my gosh I can't even think of getting rid of them!
I'm still a teenager, and I hope that when I get older maybe I can read these books to my kids, or on the porch with my husband, or maybe if I become a librarian I can donate them and share them with an entire city full of people!
Cheesy? Oh you bet! But reading gives a girl a lot of space to dream.

I have some series I collect, Michael Connelly and David Rosenfelt to mention two. When I die, my family has instructions to haul any they don't want to the local library.
I also hang on to book autographed by the author.
Others, I pass on to friends who in turn pass them on to others.

My husband and I love reading series books. There are some that I will never get rid of such as Robert Parker, Daniel Silva, Vince Flynn, William Kent Krueger, Brad Thor, John Sanford, oh my the list goes on. I always try to buy series books, and if I find a series we don't care for, I trade them in at Cupboard Maker Books and what I can't trade I donate to Goodwill & Salvation Army

I keep as many books as my shelves will hold. When my shelves are full, I box them up to make room for books that are in my "to be read" pile. But books I adore will always have a place on my shelves.

The only books that I gave up so far are the books that I had when I was still a kid, and even those 'pre-teen' books that I don't really read anymore. I have novels now and I don't know when I'll be able to give them up, coz I don't think I could.