Are you willing to lend your book to others?

I'll lend my fiction books out and if I don't get them back then the story is giving someone else some joy. Now my non-fiction books I don't lend out. Most of them are reference books that I use for writing project. Most of them were hard to get hold of and there's no way I'm going to spend my time trying to track them down from people that I lent them to. DCMerkle

I will lend to certain people, my best friend, my mom hmm that is about all seeing that I was one of the unlucky ones to lend them out and hardly ever get them back. I love to read and the ones that I have after reading are keepers for me. I do however give away ones I no longer want or put them up on the net.

Yeah it is just ok to me lending books to friends and family members. I just always that the one borrowing is trusted and will not worn out the book or will return it back soon after he got finished reading the whole book. This is because I also used in borrowing books. I cant deny the fact, that it is expensive sometimes buying new ones. So if there are somebody who can just lend me, why buy a new one? And if I have one, I will also let him borrow mine. Friends are like that.

Yes, but not one that i really like because I think there is a good possbilitly that I wont get it back. I had one when I was a kid that I leant to a friend and when it came back it looked like it had gone thru a war it was bent and greasy and all kinds of things. Since that time I have been leary of lending books to friends.

I only lend my books to people that i know i will get them back. I have lent them to others in the past and not gotten them back. Half my harry potters are gone because i lent them out and never gotten them back because of loosing contact with the person. I mad because against my better judgement i lent out my copy of The Chronicles of Narnia and havent gotten it back. And my books are a part of me so not getting them back is like of piece of me missing.

Well, personally I only allow my friends to borrow my book, because it is far more easier to ask them to return the book. Yes, sometimes even a friend didn't return the book. But it's okay to me, personally. I can buy a book, but I can never buy a friendship. By the way, by lending a book means we have sharing and spreading knowledge. Wasn't that a good reason to lend a book?

I lend my books to friends but I may not do so in the future because I lent two books to a friend ages ago and he has not returned them. If I ever get these books back they will probably be in poor condition. This disappoints me and if I borrow a book from a friend I return it after not so long in the condition it came to me in. I know the names of the books so if they are not returned I can buy new ones. This friend went into my kitchen and I heard a smash. He had knocked by decorate glass fruit bowl. The painful thing was he put all the broken glass in my washing up basket and put this in my garden. He didn't get rid of the broken glass and I didn't buy me a new decorate fruit bowl.

I normally don't lend my books to anyone, with the exception of family. In fact my s/o bought me a book a couple of Christmas' ago and it was so good I passed it around to several people to read, however, I knew that they would take care of it and it would return to me. I also don't mind lending out books, like paperbacks, normally I don't go back and re-read them, so if it doesn't come back to me it's no big deal.

Most of the time I don't read books but I do read ebooks at times so I don't have to worry about this. Oh yeah lending something out can result in problems I guess like anyting that can result in problems. What I mean is I let someone borrow my gameboy when I was a kid and the other kid took it to school and it got stolen. Its not like I said you can borrow my gameboy. He was an older kid who took advantage of me and just gave himself permission to borrow it. He had some good family members who replaced it for the problems he caused. Anyway this seems long ago.

Yup! I lend and even giive them away after reading them. It saves me from tossing them away oor lugging them to the library to be donated! I DO keep a few that I really like and will read again? Otherwise, I do not save them when others voud also enjoy them.

I generally don't lend books to people. I know that the odds are against ever seeing them again.

I will lend them as long as I have read them already. I don't collect books. As soon as I have read them, they'll go to the first person who wants to borow them. I want to share them with others so they'll know what I enjoyed reading. If they return the book, then I'm lucky, if they don't, I just hope they passed it on to other readers.

I do find most people don't return books they borrowed. Hundreds of my books was lost this way. But I still don't know how to say "no" to anyone who want to borrow my book. I just feel a little embarrassed whenever i want to say a "no".

i dont lend my books to anyone bec i myself get the books frm others & hw do u expct me to giv those books...if its my own i ll try givin them...so tht makes a lot of dffrnce

Yes, I lend books to my boyfriend sometimes and to some of my other friends.

Sure thing. Especially when someone wants to borrow my Bible.

The only person I ever lend my books too is my Mum, I think my Mum is the only person who ever gives me them back as soon as she has read them. Anyone else I have lent a book too has never bothered to give it back and I have lost some good books because of this. And you are right it is hard to ask someone to give the book back, I do not know why but I hate to ask for them back! Much easier not to lend them in the first place! Apart from to my Mum that is.

Yeah,it's hesitant to lend book to others expecially your friends.Sometimes may be they forget to return the book back,Sometimes may be they donn't want to return it.So most of times i try to avert lending book to others.

it depends on who to lend your books to...i usually lend my books to my close friends only because i trust them to return it after.

I am glad to do it .But as you have said,it's a hard job for me to get my book back sometimes. Even this, i never say "no" to my friend.