What do you do when you start running out of shelf space for your books?
What do you do when you start running out of shelf space for your books?
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What do you do when you start running out of shelf space for your books?
Get a bigger shelf ?
My shelves are built in to the wall. I can’t really make them bigger.
@Dorian make more ? x
I put them on window sills…. I live in an old Victorian and the sill are deep in the windows that don’t open.
All my books are ebooks so I don’t have that problem…
I donate the books I’ve already read.
Buy a kindle!
New shelves!
We donate some and the ones that we really want to keep them we shelve. We are currently out of space and planning to buy another large books shelf!
Buy another shelf. Lol
I go thru every once in awhile and give ones I didn’t like much to goodwill.
I put my overflow in totes and donate ones I know I won’t read again or pass on to a friend.
After reading books I always pass them on to friends or charity shops. I only keep my favourites. There are so many books in this world I want to read so it’s very rare I would read the same book twice! ??
Seriously though. I have a plastic bin. Any books I don’t want to keep (book sales, garage sales, etc) go in it. When the bin is full I sell them.
New book shelf! Or only keep the best books and pass on the others for someone else to enjoy
Stack them in the closet. ?
Some girls’ closets are filled with shoes. Mine is filled with books.
Some girls’ closets are filled with shoes. Mine is filled with books.
Started stacking them on a kitchen chair that no one ever sits in ???♀️
About 30 yrs ago I had so many books that my bookcases were over flowing and I they were all over my house. A major job to dust! There were. stacks of boxes of books in the attic and basement. After collecting for at least the previous 30 yrs. I said to myself. No one is getting any use from these books so I started giving them away or donating. I only kept my very favorites. Since that time I seldom buy them, except for Kindle.
Make more shelves or donate the ones you don’t LOVE
Get a kindle
Storage tubs
Buy more shelves, take over hubbies closet, his garage.
Buy more shelves!
I go through them and donate or give away. I only keep the ones I think my daughter will like
Panic.
Donate. Honestly, I used to keep all of them and there was no more space for new ones. I just keep my favorites or the ones I’m sure I’m reading again and donate the rest. Ask my reading friends if anyone’s interested and just get them out of my house.
Don’t move to a boat.
Trust me on this one.
Save a tree. Read ebooks!
Go kindle
I thin them out. The ones that I can give up go to the little free libraries that we have in our community.
Stack some as shelves to hold the others??
Kindle!
The floor against the wall atm
Cry
Donate some and stack some where I can find space in my home office.
I take any books I probably won’t reread to charity. Only them, not my favorites.
Cry because I have no where to put them. Then go get new books to feel better. Then cry again.
You buy another bookshelf of course. ??♀️
I keep books on my iPad.
I never thought I would replace my books with an iPad. I liked the feel of my books and I didn’t think I’d ever change. I now read books on my iPad and I love it.
Donate to the library and get an I reader
Buy more shelves
Buy or build another!
Boxes. So many boxes.
I donate my books.
I don’t! I have a very small book shelf for my 15 favorites (To Kill a Mockingbird, Flowers for Algernon, Romeo and Juliet, etc) but that’s it. I read much too much to have all those books at home. No dusting…just reading! =)
Get a @Kindle lol
Stack on the floor
Give to a local assisted living home or veterans home
There are these white metal basket shelves that hang on the back of doors that hold paper backs, don’t know what I will do when I run out of doors, lol
Stack them in any way that means I can fit more on, mine looks awful at the minute but I don’t have room for another bookshelf until I move out so nothing I can do about it ahaha
Kindle!! I love the feel of reading an actual book but my kindle has saved my life because I am no longer struggling to find space for new books and if you’re traveling or going to the beach or wherever you may go you don’t have to just pick between one or two books to bring with you
donate
Get a kindle?
Move ??♀️
Kindle
Borrow from library or kindle
Line your staircase and hallways with books
Piles and piles of books on top of book shelf or near book shelf lol.
I just giveaway some of my clothes to make space for books.
get some under bed storage
Plant a little free library in your yard, or donate to the friends of the library shop!
Find space for another bookshelf!
buying more book shelves
Once I finish with a book I either give to friend or donate to charity
I have only kept about 6 in all my years of reading
Get more shelving. My uncle built something like a big skylight in the roof, but made it sold, put in a shelf and filled it with books he loved but didn’t need to access regularly.
Put them under the bed.
Use your books piled up at the end of boards to make more shelves
Kindle
Double stack
Build more book shelves!
Sadly donate them. I’m a book hoarder? I don’t like to even get rid of bad books. I have a rule bookshelfs overflowing and cannot fit one more book. Stack by the bed and by my chair in my sunroom to high. Some have to go! If I didn’t follow this rule my house would have stacks of books everywhere.
I now hoard on my Kindle. Much easier. Husband likes it better.
Make piles on the floor