Do you keep your books once you have finished reading them?

I'm for the most part the same way. The books I really really loved I keep and reread at a later date. Then there are books that I liked and bought I've kept them for usually about a year then donate them to the local libraries if I hadn't had the erge to read them again. I give them to the libraries because depend on donations to 1 stack the shelves and 2 for their book sales to pay for supplies and service.

Sometimes I sell them, sometimes I give them away, but the ones I really enjoy, the ones I'll read again and again and again, I keep on my shelf. I do donate books to the library a lot because I live in a small area and even the big library thirty miles from home doesn't always have the widest selection.

I will usually keep most of the instructional references such as cookbooks, home repair texts ect. but I will give away fictional novels, as well as most magazines... Because I live near four major colleges, it's almost a guarantee that I will find some excellent books from just just taking a simple walk around the neighborhood. When students move out, they always have books to go on the trash heap. Sometimes, I will find loads of books that are in excellent condition and resell them to a local bookseller or donate them to the city's bookbank. I believe in the "Returning Of Knowlege" and I certainly hope that more people get back to reading books, it's not only good for the body, it's good for the mind! :)

I usually give them away I know I will never read them again so why not. I just cant see having them around collecting dust. I like giving alot of my things away if I can make somebody happy then Im happy.

I keep some of my favorites, but I don't know why since I never bother to read them again. Most of the books I finish get passed on to a friend, or donated to a local thrift shop. One of my friends makes a point of reading every book at least twice just in case she missed something the first time.

Books i respect them, and i buy books that i really like as am lazy i don't read much so the books that i read are usually very famous so never want to part with them, hehe i even don't wanna share with my freinds also. I keep all the books that i get or buy for reading

I keep the books that I really liked, that have special meaning to me or that I might read again. The rest I give to friends or swap or send as random acts of kindness on www.bookcrossing.com Sometimes I donate to the library. A lot of times I give them to my mom to read first. Some of those she passes on to an aunt. Others she gives back and I get rid of via bookcrossing.

I have sold a few of my books on ebay and they actully sell for pretty far prices so it's worth doing.

Once I've read a book I own it. I don't even know why I feel that way since I seldom read a book twice. I guess I just like having them around. A room without books seems kind of barren and unlived in to me.

You should take his books and sell them online at ebay or amazon, you can ship them media mail rate so it costs a lot less than regular mail. I collect Halloween books so those are ones I never get rid of. Most of the time I donate my old books to the library or the local schools.

I am the same way. The books I really love, I keep forever. The others I have read, I usually keep for a few years, and then I donate them to my local library, as long as they are in decent condition. If they have torn pages, etc. I just throw them away.

i'm a fool for giving away so many of my books from college, not only textbooks but personal ones as well. i really regret it but then i know that they would probably just collect dust in an attic somewhere.

Yes, I usually keep the books after reading them. Well, they are mine to keep after all. And I also borrow books from my sister and I keep the ones I like on my bookshelf. Haha! Books are precious to me and I don't simply lend them or give them away. Once I lent some books to a friend and it took ages to get it back. Call me stingy but I'm not going to lend my precious books again. I'd try to sell the books I don't like on eBay though. It's so that I can earn some money to buy more new books. I think that reading can be an expensive hobby because money keeps flowing out to buy new books but money does not come in. Well, as a student, that's how I feel.

I have such a problem getting rid of books. Our house is cluttered with them. It doesn't help that my husband reads every book he likes 3-5 times. He reads so fast that he is always running out of books, so he re-reads. But I'm a pack rat and have a night stand next to my bed of 7 or 8 books I have read or am currently reading. Under the bed is full of books and then we have book shelves that are overflowing. I just forced myself to throw out some of my old college books last year. The ones the school didn't by back. It's kinda sick really. I'm gonna become one of those old people that lives in a house with stacks of books to the ceiling. Then one day the neighbor will call the cops cuz I've been missing and I'll be buried under a pile of them.

If I have bought the book myself then I certainly keep it with me even after completing it. and if the book belongs to my friend then I return it and buy it myself that book if I liked it even I have read it. Its difficult for me also to part from my books.

I haven't really parted with too many of my books. I would be more likely to give them away to friends than think of reselling them, although I could surely use the money. I would just get more satisfaction out of knowing that a good friend was getting to read something that I had personally also enjoyed. Most of my books were bought at used book stores, in the first place. Most of my reading material has been from the library. I don't buy many books these days.

I think it all depends on the book...lol. I collect 12 different authors right now :) If it's one of their books - of course I keep it. If I really really like a book; I'll keep it and probably start another collection. If I feel that one of my friends might like a particular book, I'll pass it on to them. The rest I put up in the used bookstore @ Silver Sity Mall (link on my page). That's with novels anyways - Cookbooks, natural remedies, any sort of reference book and anything dealing with wicca; they all come in my house and never leave (unless I lend them out - but I have to really really trust a person before I lend out a book.. I've lost so many books by lending them out and never getting them back.

Yep, I keep both the printed and the audio books. Audio Books are mostly from my own shop http://www.AudioBooksCorner.com My wife is an avid reader and listener also, we have nearly all walls full of book shelves.....

For years I never got rid of anything, but it just got to be too much. I sold a lot to Powell's Books here in Portland, because I realized that even though I liked a lot of them when I read them, I'd had them kicking around for years and was unlikely to re-read them. I recently started selling them through Amazon Marketplace and am getting much better rates than when I sold them to the bookstore. Another good way to make money from home, which is a popular topic here on myLot!

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