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Question about your book habits A Deathwatch Guard Send a noteboard - 08/05/2013 10:25:51 PM

I finished my semester and now it's summer break, I don't have an internship or job yet, so I have lots of time on my hands... And am spending it in what is possibly the least entertaining manner, by doing a spring cleaning of my possessions, and getting rid of all the excess crap I've accumulated.

Now, with most of these things I know what to do. If I haven't used, seen it, or thought of it in a couple of years, then it's nothing more than glorified trash. But I can't bring myself to do that with books. So what do you all do when confronted with such a situation? How did you deal with childhood books, or random nonfiction books that, due to their simplicity, have been rendered obsolete by wikipedia and the internet? Or foreign language books in a language you can read only very slowly? The latter I'm going to keep, as an investment until I get around to improving my reading speed, but they take up so much space that I'm still tempted to prune things a bit.

Anyone else experience these problems? I'm not looking for help or even advice, mainly just interested in how everyone else handled this inevitable step in their lives.

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Question about your book habits - 08/05/2013 10:25:51 PM 1342 Views
pfft. i don't get rid of books. i bought a house so i could get more. and i'm only kidding a little. - 09/05/2013 12:50:46 AM 1077 Views
That would be the optimum solution - 09/05/2013 02:53:54 AM 1170 Views
I hoard - 09/05/2013 05:55:36 AM 1138 Views
Just donate them to your library and get an ereader. The format is rapidly approaching obsolescence. - 09/05/2013 08:22:56 AM 1192 Views
I could see doing that on a go-forward basis. - 09/05/2013 03:42:32 PM 1150 Views
Dint say nothin' 'bout purchasin'. *NM* - 10/05/2013 08:00:36 AM 518 Views
I'm not a fan - 09/05/2013 03:55:23 PM 1178 Views
Oh please. - 09/05/2013 05:10:42 PM 1111 Views
You don't even keep paperback books shelved. - 10/05/2013 07:59:49 AM 1084 Views
Oh, well I won't argue with that. - 12/05/2013 05:04:16 AM 1043 Views
I trash them - 09/05/2013 12:29:53 PM 1474 Views
I never throw books away. - 09/05/2013 05:15:52 PM 1118 Views
I used to hoard them... - 10/05/2013 02:36:15 PM 1161 Views
I donate them to charity *NM* - 11/05/2013 10:21:14 PM 712 Views
basically, no takers. - 20/05/2013 07:49:55 AM 1095 Views

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