Where do your books end up after you've read them?

Well I used to keep all my books. I had a small library here actually with all of them. I recently though went through them all. Any that I wasn't going to re-read and no one in the family was interested in I put up on freecycle. A woman, who is also a teacher, took them all and she was able to use them in her classroom for kids to pick from. I had a ton of young adult books as well as adult ones. I like the fact that they went on to be read by someone else. I had in the past done used book shops but there aren't any around me anymore and sadly the goodwill near me isn't that nice of employees. They are very picky about anything donated and it has to be in perfect condition so I gave up on them.

I either keep them or give them away to anybody who wants them.

I'm not really a charitable person and am pretty selfish, which I honestly admit. I really don't want other people touching my things, which indicates my possessiveness. The books I have read always end up on my bookshelf, though I read them from time to time. Luckily, I find myself still interest on the books I have read. I agree that everytime that we read our old books, there is a different experience from reading the books. I, myself, have experienced it. The old books that I really don't want to read back then and I don't understand interests me nowadays. It's a pleasure to find learning and experience through reading books. Well, I learnt things and visualized the things I would not be able to see EVER.

Well at first i would take them to Half Price Books and they would give me a little bit of money for them, but herer recently we started a business and i just take them there and sell them for cheap, i get more money out of them that way than if i took them to half price books. I still buy at half price though.

I personally keep all of my books, unless I didn't like them while reading them. If I don't like them I usually bring them to my local library to donate, so they can be sold in the library donation store. Sometimes I even bring them to the goodwill, or the local used book store, where I can make a little extra cash. I was also just informed of a website, Cash4Books.net, where you type in the ISBN code on the back of your books, they tell you how much they will pay you for it, and they even pay the shipping. I've been meaning to try that, but haven't had time.

I pass the ones i dont want to keep for my collection on to my mom, sisters, grandma, aunts. The ones that they dont want or that have been passed on to me from them I've either donated to the libary, passed on to friends, sold at a garage sale, passed on via whatsonmybookshelf.com or ive donated them to the local salvation army or goodwill.

i collected it...after i read it, i put it in my shelf...it makes me smile seeing those books in my shelf populating..hehe...then realize that i read those books, page by page, word by word..somehow i see myself as amazing one coz not all people have interest in reading books... maybe someday, i will do that to, donating books...

I used to donate my books to the library too..kind of self-defeating though, when they would have book sales, as I buy just as many books as the number I just donated--unfortunately my library no longer has either acceptance of books or has library book sales and I miss them! I unfortunately don't have a goodwill near me to donate books now...if I can I ask my friends if they want any of my books ..otherwise they are just trashed which I hate doing--Most of the time though I keep all my books...sometimes I love to re-read books...I just finished re-reading AGAIN my Harry Potter series...now I'm reading the Artemis Fowl books again....uh, yup, as far as fiction books I just love children's books, especially ones of a "magical" nature--There used to be a bookshop near me just like the one you described where you could take your old books and they would "evaluate" them and either get cash for them or get exchanges..that is pick out books you wanted...sadly it's long gone--really miss it

There is a place online called Bookcrossings and you print up a tag and place it in a public place after you list it on the web site. You can also get people that are in your area that place books different places and you just post that you got the book. I have not used it, but I want to this summer. I think there is only one other person in my area that is using this method for exchanging books. Another one that I use is Freecycle, but have been having bad luck with people keeping there word and picking up the books. I feel that Goodwill books just sit on a shelf and no one looks for them at all. What about donating them to the hospital or a nursing home? What about a local rehab place or even a phycial therapy place also. I am finding that I have been reading more and more.

Oh my my books that I buy end up in already over crowded bookshelves as I love to reread some of them and also I have some books that are one hundred years old like the Five Little Peppers and the Louisa May Alcott books like Little Women and JO's Boys.

I give my books to a charity shop, as I do with my other stuff that I don't want anymore, clothes, dvds etc. There is one book that I will not give away. I love it too much.

I keep most of my books in boxes. My bookshelf is already breeming full of books and I haven't gotten around to buying a new bookshelf. I think what I'll do is buy a couple of big plastic containers, the box shapes and keep the books in there. Hopefully they won't rot as quickly.

my old books end up on different websites to sell or i trade them for other ones or other items. sometimes I give them to a library but mostly I make $$ for them!

After I've finished reading a book, or if I get bored with it for some reason and want to put it away, it usually goes in a bag on the ground in my closet. The ones that I can't bare to part with for anything -- the ones I've read numerous times -- get put in a tote in my closet. A few years ago, I gave away a lot of books that I wish I had back now because I had a dream about them. The dream made me want to read them again. Now I have to go to Amazon and start purchasing when I can.

I keep almost all of my books but when I HAVE to weed out some I usually take them to a thrift shop that doesn't get very good books. I sell books for a living and I buy at second hand shops, libraries, auctions etc. When it comes to donating my own rejects, I like to put them some place where I would have to keep going through my own books. I recently dropped about 50 books off at a hospital thrift that doesn't seem to ever have any books that interest me. Of course it's all relative. Once in a church thrift, I heard two people oohing and aahing over a great find. When I zeroed in to see what they found, it was a book I'd donated to the thrift months before after spending over a year trying to sell the darn thing. Just proves "One man's trash is another man's treasure." LOL

I love reading books! I have over 200! I put them at my library after end them, by category. Most of the times i read them again! I believe that you understand different the book every time you read it! It is like you discover new things every time! The place that i love most at my house is the library!

I exchange books with my classmates. Everybody reads books in our class because our literature teacher make us read :) When I finish a book, (if it is my book) I ask my firend if they want it. Then I ask them for a new book. I read about 20 books a year but I only buy 1 or 2. My friends too, lend books from me. Most of my books are lost in the class :D Maybe they are forgotten and maybe stolen, who knows :)

I used to collect books, I had my favorite Authors and Im thinking of keeping it for my grand children in the future..(lol Im still in mid twenties). But true, I want to it pass to them.

I read alot also, I'm always looking for the latest books by my favorite authors. All my books go to the bookstore here in my town, they give credit for every book you bring in. I usually go once a week and see if anything new has come in, that I haven't read yet, also I have a few friends that read the same books I read, and we usually trade around. And our church has a library and you can donate books to it.

i donate them to ohters , or sale them at a low price!what a pity! i like reading ,but there is no room for the books, so i donate them or sale them!