Do you leave them on the shelf to collect dust ?
Sell them on e-bay ?
Give them to friends and family ?
Or give them to a charity shop ?
Me, I do the first one and then after a year or 2 I do the fourth, I can't be bothered with trying to negotiate a decent price with second hand books store owners. Especially when they say...
"I'm not looking to buy right now" and "I can only give you 30p per book" and "Oooh I've got a lot of copies of this one."
I'd rather give the books to charity and feel good about myself.
2007-07-10 20:05:42 · 40 answers · asked by Dustbowl Blues 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
If I like them I keep them. I take pride in my library.
If I don't care for the book, I wait until I have several and then I donate them to my local library.
2007-07-10 20:10:17 · answer #1 · answered by Letizia 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am always amazed at the books people donate to charity or libraries. Usually, although not always, they are the ones someone thought weren't very good or not worth a second read. In that case, lol, why donate? Someone else might like it? Maybe, but probably not. Back one hundred years or so, books themselves were a lot more valuable because thousands of copies of each were not available and so it made sense to never throw away or otherwise destroy a book. Today's world of paperbacks is a whole different story. Why not recycle??? This way, next years "top ten" can be printed without sacrificing any more trees and still be available to thousands upon thousands.
2007-07-10 23:32:41 · answer #2 · answered by naniannie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have books everywhere - the easy-read holiday fiction goes either to a Charity shop or I pass them on to friends and family. However, some have a special significance - if they've been given to me as a present I can't give them away (I have a funny philosophy about gifts being part of the donor's life) and the Simon Templar books we bought on honeymoon to read on the beach, we still have, 48 years later! We still have our College Books - you can guess how old they are!! I guess my daughter will be having a big bonfire one day.
2007-07-10 20:18:45 · answer #3 · answered by Veronica Alicia 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
same as you - ones I really like I keep so I can re-read them or pass them on to other people but the others I give to charity. You can buy some really cheap books so you aren't really out of pocket and I think the world of e-bay has hit charity shops quite hard.
2007-07-10 21:08:15 · answer #4 · answered by Redhead 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Me and my friend always swap what we have read then we give them to the charity shop seeing as that's where we have bought most of them from in the first place. One second hand book shop I go to gives you half the price you paid back if you return them but I always forget which books I've bought from there!
2007-07-10 20:20:21 · answer #5 · answered by fairyb04 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I keep most books - I have a couple of tall bookshelves which are crammed with books. If I enjoy a book I am quite happy to read it again later. If I didn't enjoy it too much then I might get rid of it through ebay/car boot sale/charity shop, but on the whole I tend to keep them.
2007-07-11 04:32:59 · answer #6 · answered by Chipmunk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I get most of my books from the library but when I do buy them if I really love them and think I will read them again I keep them.All the others I give to charity shops.
2007-07-12 09:00:49 · answer #7 · answered by chezliz 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it is a relly good book, I recommend it to colleagues and friends, and normally give it to the person who I think will appreciate it the most. For many non-fiction works, I like to give my students first refusal before offering it to colleagues.
Then and only then will I give books away to charity shops.
2007-07-10 22:41:31 · answer #8 · answered by Norman W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I keep all my non-fiction books because they help me with my job and they are too good to let go of. With fiction I tend to pass them on to my Mum and then when she is done I either give them to charity or when I can be bothered I put them on readitswapit to get something else I fancy reading. Ebay isnt worth it and you dont get alot at car boot sales. Its better to give them to a worthwhile cause. I just wish my used books could raise money for eating disorders as they get so little help.
2007-07-10 20:20:11 · answer #9 · answered by b3(ky 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the book some I keep then offer to the school library then the village library then the charity shops
2007-07-10 20:16:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sell em on eBay or Greenmetropolis.com. The latter is better because all books sell for £3.75. eBay, on the other hand, I've just sold a load of books on for between 50p and a pound each. Bit of a no brainer, really, but then I hadn't heard of greenmetropolis until a bit too late....
2007-07-12 03:50:23 · answer #11 · answered by Beastie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋