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What do you do with books once you've read them? MrFarstrider Send a noteboard - 14/10/2017 07:07:17 PM

Do you donate your books, try to sell them at your next garage sale, or do you hold on to them on the off chance you might want to reference them again in the future?

What is your reasoning for why you do whatever it is that you do with your books once you've read them?

My wife and I have a ton of books that we have read, intend to read, or have acquired but will likely never read. So I've always got this drive to get rid of old books but there's also something in me that just likes to keep old books around. A library or second hand book store would undoubtedly get more use out of them. So, what's your thoughts about your dusty old tomes?

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What do you do with books once you've read them? - 14/10/2017 07:07:17 PM 1752 Views
Bookshelf, loan out, forget who I loaned to, buy again, repeat. - 15/10/2017 02:42:50 AM 1094 Views
Hold onto them until my house burns down, then get new ones - 15/10/2017 06:03:19 AM 1129 Views
Carry them from house to house... forever. *NM* - 15/10/2017 04:24:32 PM 632 Views
I treasure them *NM* - 16/10/2017 12:43:37 AM 699 Views
I keep a few but give most away - 16/10/2017 02:50:46 AM 1110 Views
excalibur is not allowed books. - 16/10/2017 01:12:51 PM 1142 Views
I keep trying to donate them, but the other half is a book hoarder. - 16/10/2017 03:10:31 PM 1120 Views
You make "book hoarder" sound like a *bad* thing... - 16/10/2017 07:56:38 PM 1114 Views
Not intentional. - 16/10/2017 09:17:39 PM 1155 Views
Amen - 17/10/2017 02:37:25 PM 1367 Views
Moving is just an opportunity to spend days rearranging them!!! - 17/10/2017 08:38:38 PM 1121 Views
Rearranging I can dig. - 18/10/2017 09:00:23 AM 1171 Views
That's why you hire movers - 22/10/2017 02:20:47 AM 1023 Views
I read eBooks primarily. - 16/10/2017 06:51:50 PM 1108 Views
They grace my living room/library and home office. - 16/10/2017 09:09:55 PM 1033 Views
Some I give to students, some I trade, some I keep - 17/10/2017 02:12:28 AM 1085 Views
Use them as toilet paper *NM* - 17/10/2017 03:42:11 AM 758 Views
Really? - 18/10/2017 12:07:07 AM 1110 Views
Replaced them with the e-book version mostly. - 18/10/2017 06:20:16 AM 1111 Views
Depends on the book - 28/10/2017 12:46:40 AM 1513 Views

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