Do you keep your books after you read them?

I haven't bought any books in a very long time. All the books I have bought, I have kept and are all placed neatly in a book shelf in my house. I now have the luxury of going over to my mother-in-laws and borrowing the books in which she buys. She has a very extensive library in her home.

The books I bought are mostly Sidney Sheldon's collections.. I started buying his masterpieces when I was in College. I bought back then paperbacks/used books since the new ones were very expensive for my budget as a student. I kept all of them because they're part of my treasures in life. Since I arrived here in Denmark, I bought two books already and I intend to keep them and add them to my collections.

Once I've read a book it sort of becomes mine and I have a very difficult time ever parting with it even though I don't often re-read books. I sell books for a living but that's different. As long as I don't read a particular copy, I don't think of it as mine and I can sell it easily. I recently donated about 50 books to a thrift shop. They were old reading copies that I'd finished long ago and had no space for and didn't especially like all that much. Still, the fact that they were mine and I'd read them, made it really hard for me to part with them.

Just my opinion, and as we know, opinions are like armpits-we all have a couple! I don't routinely buy books. First, I don't have storage space to keep them and secondly, I feel that it is more environmentally sound to borrow them from a library or a book exchange or whatever. Should I really LOVE a particular book and feel the need to own a copy, then I get a copy! However, I do know that some people's hobby is collecting books or re-reading them. If that is their pleasure then I say 'go for it!' I do have some of my grown children's favorite children's books that I kept. They can have them when they have a family or I can use them for grandchildren one day! I also have a few classics that I kept around for all the children to use during their school years and such.

Unless I absolutely hate them, I always hang onto them. I have far too many books really as I've run out of space to put them, but I can't resist buying them any more than I can resist hanging onto them. I'm always picking up used books that look interesting and I've got more books than I'll get time to read. When I've read one I like to keep it because I just feel that there's such a richness in owning books. They're such wonderful things. I love to be able to recommend and lend out books to friends and family too.

I have always kept my books which I have readed. I think these books could let me remeber the joyes that they brought to me. At the same time, I also have the chance to give these books to someone who really need them. In my thought, this is a good habbit.

Yes I love to keep a collecton and I usually read a book's review before buying one or get it from the library read it and then buy my own copy and read it again. I just wish I could have a library of it someday.

For a long time I kept mine and I still have a bunch here but I recently went through and cleaned out a bunch. Ones I won't be re-reading and no one in the house is interested in. No I didn't throw them out though. I put them on freecyle and someone else got them. So they will continue to be read just not by me. I usually bought used books due to the cost but I hadn't really boughten that many in recent years.

I like keeping the books I have bought. I have read and reread them several times. I too only give books away if I don't like them.

It really depends on whether or not I enjoyed reading the book, and if I think I may pick it up again someday and reread it. I only have a few thus far, but that's only because I just recently rediscovered my love of reading for pleasure, instead of for class.

In most time,I will keep most of them,because I like the books which I bought very much.

Of course I keep the books after I read them. Books are treasure for me. Besides, I can read them later or leave them for my son. Reading is a good habit and I want to develop my son to have this habit, too.

If I have recently bought a book I have been yearning to get, then of course I will keep. But for textbooks I buy them used then sell them after, if I know they will be useless to me in the future.

I depends. Some books I keep, and some I don't. I have books that really mean something to me that I have had forever. I also have other books that I read once or twice and pass on. I think that I do pass these on because I believe that a good book needs to get seen and if I have already gotten my piece from it, its my job to let someone else get theirs. :)

I never keep my books unless they are reference books which I have spent a lot of money on for my course and they are important for my job to refer to, but paperbacks and novels I usually read and then I give them to charity shops to make money for charity. I find books take up too much room and I don't have much room in my bedroom. The only novels I keep are all the Harry Potter books which I won't get rid of as I will read them over and over again. I do prefer to get most of my books from the library as I read a lot and it becomes too expensive to keep buying them

I keep my books especially those that I bought, I treausured them a lot... I sometimes let others borrowed them but I see to it they'll gonna return it... or else.. lol

I have always loved my books; new or used and have kept as many of them as I can for years. When I have a bookcase then it's great, but right now I have no place to even put a bookcase in our new home so I've had to get rid of a lot of them. Makes my heart sick...

If I enjoyed the book, I usually keep it. If I don't want it anymore I put it on a book swapping site like BookMooch.

I keep the ones that I buy, but like you, I usually buy used ones. I am a book snob, though...I only buy hardbacks. I find books on eBay, Alibris and AbeBooks. I collect old children's books. I have a nice collection of classics, too. My books are treasures to me. If I just want to read something, though, I usually go to the library. If it ends up being something I want to keep, then I buy it. lol I've been collecting books a long time, and believe me, you can read it more than once. Things I read when I was in my teens are a lot different when read at 53! lol I do have a cleaning now and then. I usually take those that I've decided to get rid of to the library. They have a sale every year of donated books in order to make improvements to the library and to buy new books.

I normally get them at the library and read them and then buy a used copy if I like the book. I like knowing that there is a good supply of books that I love for a rainy day.