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Do you keep books?

I generally don't part with my books. However, sometimes I don't like the books or don't feel that I'll read them anymore. I've given a box of them away to a church that was having a rummage sale and other times I have passed them along to friends who I feel might like the subject matter.
 
used to keep them, but now i would rather donate them to the library, or just give them to someone who will read it and pass it on also. but they are quickly replaced.
 
I rarely part with my books. I will lend them out for other people to read and all that, but I'm not too comfortable with just giving them away. I guess I like having them on my shelf as a way of seeing all of the different books that I have read and enjoyed. If I really dislike a book, however, then I will release it via Book Crossing.
 
abecedarian said:
I have to pm someone at bookcrossing and get an address to send a book to Sweden this weekend..you aren't by any chance taking part in the Olympic Challenge are you? That would be too funny.
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Unfortunately not! What is the challenge about?
Btw I'm ThursdayN on the bookcrossing site.:p
 
Yes, though it'd be more accurate to say that it's the books that live in our apartment, and they just let us share the space.
 
i don't, but i have room, althought , im starting to run out.

when i was.. 4 i riped up about... 10 books, kiddies ones, santa was coming :) and i was scared (being 4 and didnt' like the idea of someone in my room :eek: ) so i riped em, and they piled up to the bed, prob taller than i was at the time....


i never ate books :p

ah ha i store em, sometimes to ree read.
 
AquaBlue said:
I keep all my books. I like to re-read them from time to time. Old habit. The problem is that I have sooo many books that I have little space for other things. :eek:
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I'm exactly the same. I also like to keep them as like a showcase. I like it when you have visitors in your home and they admire the amount of books you've read. And I am just the same when visiting another persons home with a showcase of books. Quite often I find that some of the books I've read can create very good conversation with your visitors or for dinner partys.
 
As I accumulate new books they just displace my wife's chick lit section on our shelves. I don't know where they end up;don't really care, under the bed I expect.:rolleyes:
 
Choc said:
I'm exactly the same. I also like to keep them as like a showcase. I like it when you have visitors in your home and they admire the amount of books you've read. And I am just the same when visiting another persons home with a showcase of books. Quite often I find that some of the books I've read can create very good conversation with your visitors or for dinner partys.
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Agree with all; my brother-in-law is a big reader and I only see him a couple of times a year. Our conversations are usually about what's on the shelf and what we've been reading. Recently we had the doctor around for our little girl and he spotted Foucault's Pendulam on the side which I was reading at the time; I think he forgot why he had come as we discussed the book more than my little one's illlness.
 
blueboatdriver said:
Agree with all; my brother-in-law is a big reader and I only see him a couple of times a year. Our conversations are usually about what's on the shelf and what we've been reading. Recently we had the doctor around for our little girl and he spotted Foucault's Pendulam on the side which I was reading at the time; I think he forgot why he had come as we discussed the book more than my little one's illlness.
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hehehe.....Very good. Creates healthy conversations, feeds and exercises you mind!
I especially like it when all this happens with someone that I have a huge amount of respect for in regards to their education level, and high level of occupation
:)
 
Sadly enough I can't browse through a library. I have a bad habit. If I check out alot of books (it happens everytime) I never return the books unless forced. I end up paying some fee for all the books and just keep them. If I borrow a book and read it then I must go buy the book as well. I do display them as some trophy I believe. I end up in book stores way too often now. I always make sure I have cash for a book if I see one that interests me. Maybe I'm just weird.

~Josh
 
Its sad but true, I am a book hoarder. *MINE*:mad: I have two book "shelfs". One with the "better" nicer, new-when-bought books and the other is for the used books or less nice books..Its sick, I discriminate books...I buy them faster than I read them but I can still find some spare space somewhere...Under the bed, in the closet, in the car, stacked on top of other books, behind the TV, in my snakes' tank...you get it.;)
 
i take most books out of the library, but i buy books such as sequels that i will probably like, or books at sales. sometimes i buy books i've already read and that's how my collection builds up, and i can't get rid of it-and don't want to, either. And then authors come to town and i buy their books to get signed...and i wouldn't part with those either.
 
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