What do you do with your books when you are finished reading them?
What do you do with your books when you are finished reading them?
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What do you do with your books when you are finished reading them?
Mostly donate to the library where I work.
I donate mine to Salvation Army thrift store
I trade with girlfriends then when we’re all done, we take them to a used book store & get credit for more books! The ones they won’t take, we donate.
Keep them.
Ones I absolutely love I keep but pass the others along and if they come back donate to library or thrift store
Keep the ones I like… reread then, loan them to friends, admire them (they are my “decorations” in pretty bookcases)
We always have a bin going for books we are done with. If there is one I want to keep I find a place for it on one of our many shelves. We bring boxes of books to our library sale twice a year (and walk out of the sale with tons as well). I also let anyone who comes into my house paw through and take what they want.
I keep some, borrow some to friends and I have a free little library in my yard I put some in.
I love the free little library idea
I love my local Little Library and got a lot of good books and given a lot also. I either take them there or donate them or sell them to my local used bookstore.
I use the library so I bring them back. ?
I delete them.
I donate them to DKG for scholarships for women going into education.
Let friends read them.
I keep my favorites and swap the rest on http://paperbackswap.com/ if I have some in not “swappable” conditions I give them to Goodwill.
If they are mine, I keep them.
Loan the keepers to friends and the not keepers I take to work and giveaway and what’s leftover I leave in our free library at the hospital I work for.
I get most of mine for $1 from a book exchange, so I trade them back in and get more.
All of the Christian books go straight into our church library. General fiction gets donated to our small town library. They struggle to buy books so I’m glad to help them out.
Share with friends and then give them to a library.
I don’t buy them.. no point, I don’t read them again
I keep some, I pass some on to family and friends and I donate some to the library.
Read them again!
Keep them and love them and put them on my shelves and pet them over and over again like the lovely things they are. Also: I have a book exchange party to weed my shelves and get new books (leftovers get donated to the library or to Open Books).
I collect certain books – banned books, classics, a couple of authors – the rest get passed on either through other family members who also past them on or donated.
Unless I don’t like it, which is extremely rare with a book I purchase, I keep them to revisit next time. We rotate through extended family and friends for those genres we share a likeness for. The ones I don’t like I either give away, donate or sell or trade.
save them
Stockpile them
If I love it, I keep it! Otherwise, I donate it to our neighborhood Little Lending Library!
give to library
Pass them along to friends if they’re good, or Garage Sale/Goodwill if it’s not.
Donate them or exchange them at our rv park in the summer time.
I donate, send to troops, some I keep as I can use them in college courses I teach, and others I keep
Cause I loved them. But I try to donate 100 a year
Put them in my Book Vault.
Some I keep, I like to have them on my shelves and even re-read some of them. Others I give to friends and family, or put into Little Free Libraries.
Return them to the library.
Some I keep, give to others or donate to libraries.
Keep the ones I love, donate the rest!
Take them back to the library.
I tend to keep them all but I need to start getting rid of some because I have been getting a lot since joining the book of the month!
I usually donate mine to our Local Friends of The Library for their sale. Than I go and buy more.
Most I keep to share with friends. I am very careful choosing my hardcovers. I donate a few. At Christmas l include a well loved book with gifts for friends and family.
I trade books with several friends! They are on Goodreads. We trade our wins. I ask back if I want to add to my library.
I have saved them….trying to decide what to do with some of them.
Hoard them ?
Me too!
Put them back on the bookshelf ????
Some I keep, especially if worth a second read. I have lent many out to friends. Then I also like to exchange. We have a local pharmacy that has a space set up to do exchange with others in the community.
If not a book I’ll read again, then gift to friends, donate to Little Libraries or library book sale/stores. Of course most of them end up on my shelves to be read again or used as reference – on how to write!
Pass them on to my mom, who after reading passes them on to several others to read.
I take to work for anyone to take with a note to keep passing it on.
pass it on
If they’re non-fiction, I keep them and reference them when I’m writing or doing other work. If they’re fiction, I put them in my Little Free Library in my front yard for my neighbours to enjoy.
Except if they’ve been signed by the author, in which case I keep them.
Trade them on http://paperbackswap.com/ I ❤️ the site, but it requires patience.
It all depends on the book.
Library donation. Share the wealth.
Some I keep especially if hey are autographed by the author, Once a year I give a lot of books to our library sale. The proceeds from the sale go to buy books for the library in schools and things like this.
Donate them or give to friends
Keep or trade in at my used bookstore R&B Used books
If I will re-read them, they go on my shelf….if I don’t think that I will…they go in my store.
Depends on how much I enjoyed them. Shelf space is at a premium, so I only keep the ones I love and want to loan to everyone I know will also love them or reread them in a year or two. I donate to libraries or other charitable book sales.
I have a Facebook book selling group named Books Galore.I sell them there.
Most I keep, some I give to friends, some get donated.
Keep or if they were so so donate!
Read them again if I like them
If they’re part of a series, I keep them forever. If they’re not, I give them to my friend Donna. When she’s finished with them, she passes them along to her family members or donates them to the library or senior center.
Donate them to public library except for Danielle Steel’s books
Keep them…I’m a book hoarder. :/
Keep some to read again, share with friends and donate them to the library.
Nancy, we need to get together and share!! ??
I hoard them…?
Same.
Me too! But sometimes I have to make room on my shelves and have to gather stacks to donate or take to used bookstores for credit.
I pass them to a group of friends. If they come back, I donate them to my library.
Pass them to a friend
Keep most of them. I will send to my sister but she sends them back. Some I will donate but I started downloading books a couple years ago so have a lot more. Hard to give up a good book
return them to the library
Place them on my shelf to read again later
Return them to the library
Keep some, donate some, give away some.
Same here.
I keep them and lend them to friends and family!
I share!
Keep many especially autographed ones, share with friends, donate to library book sales & nursing centers ??
Return them to the library. ❤️
Rained go back to the library, some get donated and some go to friends.
Share or donate…..never read a book again…too many on the TBR list!
Only keeping my fave authors. Others are donated. Transitioning to full digital mode eventually.
Keep some , donate , pass on to others to read, return to library .
That’s what I do
Share them with friends and/or put them in my little free library.
Keep some and lend to family and friends. Give some away or give to library.
Cry into them because I want to keep reading ?
Keep, give away, donate to Library. Depends on the book.
Close the cover.
Pass them on so someone else can enjoy them as much as I do
Used bookstores for credit and http://paperbackswap.com/
Wonderful website.
Some author’s books are keepers so I can reread them again and again. Others go to the used bookstore or to friends.
Usually I set them down and pick up another.
Stack them on my bedside table until they topple over. Purge/donate once or twice a year
I use the library as much as possible, but buy my favorite authors to keep. Others that I buy I pass along to people I think would enjoy them.
Put them on my shelf. I can’t seem to part with any of them…
Keep the ones I know I’ll read again and give away the ones I know I won’t to charity or friends
Keep them if I loved it (all of them almost) or donate or pass on
Give them away
I kinda think it’s pointless to buy books unless you’re the type to re read books. I think reading books from the library is good and you obviously save money.
Put them on my bookshelf. ?
Anyone have any alex greyson they wanna donate to me ? I ve never read any of his an would like to.?
i keep my favorite authors for I reread them and the other I donate them to nursing home or places like it
Reread; share; donate.
Pass them on to family, or donate to Free Little Library boxes.
If I loved it, I keep it. I re-read good books. If I wasn’t crazy about it, I usually donate it. If it’s a best seller, sometimes I sell it.
Give them to someone else to read and then pass on.
Savor them still! In my roo
Keep them. Read again later…or read the favorite parts.
Give them away to someone I know will love them too.
Some I save. Some I give away to friends. Some I donate.
Horde them and put them on the shelf so I can be surrounded by all the writer’s hard work and the characters I love.
Pass on some….but if they are part of a series…a good series….definitely keep!!
Trade credit at the used book store, donate to
The library for their library book sale, pass on to friends with similar reading interests
Send them to Paperback Trader.
You can give them to Assisted Living?
The one’s that are not digital I loan or give to the library or good will.
I keep my faves but also share with others.
The ones I liked reading I put on my shelf, the ones I dont like I get rid of
Drop them off at those little boxes around town so other people can go there and enjoy
A good read
Some I send to friends. Some I loan to my dearest friends, my favorites I keep, and donate other ones.
Donate to a shelter
Keep them
They just sit in my kindle
Share or keep. I’m trying to talk my husband into building me one of those free library boxes to put in the front yard. We live in a neighborhood with TONS of walkers, and I know it would be a big hit.
I want one of those Little Free Library boxes too.
I like to share my books. If I can convince someone to read A book and then realize they love to read then I’m happy
I keep my favorites, and donate the rest, my Hubb’s work has “swap” library, and others go to local assisted living, and care facilities, or even the hospital, as patients need a distraction quite often.
I share many of my books, donate many and keep many…?
Keep them.?
Donate them to the library so that others can enjoy them.
A lot of the books I’ve won will be given away to a friend when I’m finished
That’s what I’m going to start doing! Plus I have soooo many books,going to take them to area nursing homes.
Our Senior Center accepts used books and members are allowed to help themselves to any book on the shelf.
Some I keep. Some I give to our office book share.
Hold them tight. Pet them. Kiss them goodbye. Then nestle them into their forever home on my book shelf.
Share, keep or donate
depends…gift them, keep them, create with them
Donate to shelters
Keep them and share them with friends.
I used to hoard them, but now i pass them along to others that like to read unless they are a favorite author or i believe that i will read it again.
I used to keep all of mine too, as I wanted my own little sitting room/library, but decided books are to be shared and loved by others.
sell them to Half priced books
70%- return to the library;
28%-donate to the library’s used-book shop (that’s where I bought them).
2%-I decide to keep, for at least two re-reads.
Pass them on to family, friends & work.
I share and keep. However, if anyone has any books they’d like to give to someone who lost all her books in the Texas hurricane, please PM me, and I will give you her address. @Deana is trying to recover her 500 books she lost. Thank you so much for your help!
I have some books…☺️
Thank you so much @Heather! xoxo
I should have also posted that @Deana likes historical fiction, Christian fiction, women’s fiction, memoirs, and anything else that she can possibly receive. Thank you for helping her recover her books.
Take them to the library so someone else can enjoy them! ?