What do you do with your old books? or books that you bought, read, and feels like do not belong to your shelf anymore?
What do you do with your old books? or books that you bought, read, and feels like do not belong to your shelf anymore?
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I keep all my books. The lower shelves are ones I won’t read again.
Donation box
I live in a tiny apartment and can’t keep everything. I got rid of 4-5 large boxes about a year ago?
Donate or exchange for store credit at used bookstores.
Donate or sell them.
Old books? What is that? ??
Donate them, take them to the little free library, or trade them on http://paperbackswap.com/
I’ve never felt that a book didn’t belong on my shelves, I keep all of my books.
but some books, you know.. once you read them thats it. unlike any other books that you want to stay with you forever…?
I want all of my books to stay with me forever even if I don’t plan on rereading them. Someday I may find someone to give them to but at this time I like growing my collection
free libraries. i am minutes away from 2 of them.
I keep all my books unless I really didn’t like them or they’re a duplicate. About once a year or so I take a box of books to HPB to sell. Books are really the only thing I hold onto like that. Everything else I get rid of or sell to secondhand stores or give away to friends fairly regularly.
I take mine to either a library donation bin or Goodwill.
Donate so others can enjoy them.
I usually give them away or donate them to the library or schools
I am not sure about schools… but Library? i think I have one here….. thanks!?
My daughter’s school actually requests them. I’m uncertain if every school takes donated books
Donate.. Cannot keep them all and not often I would read one twice
I offer them to friends and if they don’t want them i donate them to a local charity shop
Donate.
Donate them to our local library and if they can’t use them ,they always have a book sale. This helps them buy stuff
I used to bookcross (edited to add link for what bookcrossing means) them but I’m no longer involved with that because people who found the books simply didn’t “get it” with regards to what to do. (to their credit it IS a long and tedious process for a newbie to go through just because they found a book!)
Nowadays I just give them to people randomly. I also rarely buy physical versions of books.
http://www.bookcrossing.com/
Bookcross?
http://www.bookcrossing.com/
I always pass them to a friend. If it’s one that I absolutely love, I’ll hang onto it.
Library or the “little free library boxes”
I trade them out at the Book Exchange. I get credit towards used book purchases.
Trade them for credit at the used bookstores.
if it’s something i won’t read again, I either pop them in a bag for my sister or friend if I think they will like them, or donate to a charity shop, or if I leave on a bus or a train for the next person with a note to say ‘am not lost, please take me home and enjoy me, have a great day’
I keep!
I donate them to the VA Hospital.
Give them away to the free library thingy in front of the restaurant we like
Is free library thingy the technical term? ??
I believe it is
We have free library thingies! Well I’ve seen one. It was all Christian books. And one book on hitler. Guess which I chose.
First stop: Bookman’s in Tucson. I get credit, and use it to buy more books! What they don’t take I take to Coas in Las Cruces. I get credit, and use it to buy more books! What they don’t take goes to the Safe Haven Animal Sanctuary Thrift Store in Las Cruces, which benefits a no-kill shelter. They also get clothes, household items, etc. If the books are in really terrible shape I put them in the free box outside a thrift store in Silver City. Throw away a book? Horrors!
This has never happened to me. I keep them all!
At 99% I do keep my books. If not, I try to sell them … if I can’t sell, I put them into my district little bookhouses
If I like a book enough I’ll keep it so I can read it again if I want or my family can read them… if not then they go to charity shops or friends
I put them in a book box. We have 3 where I live.
If I do not gift them to other people I give them to our local library. The library has sales twice a year,prices are awesome and it helps with library costs.
Donate to library or veterans coffee shops
I donate to the library or take them to our local bookstore so I can get credit to buy more books.
Swap or donate at library.
Donate them
Give them to one of the Bookcycles near me. The books I give are always taken the next time I go in, so it seems they go to someone who’ll like them just as much as me x
Local charity shops, where I get most of my fiction
Give to the library.
Give to our Library run “Book Worm” were you donate books to be sold. That money then goes back to buying more books for the library. That and I have a bunch of friends who swap books once a month.
Donate to Friends of the Library Bookstore.
Donate to charity
Take to Half Price Books for cash or store credit to buy more.
I randomly mail them to faraway friends.
I put them in a pile until I’m done with all of them
Donate to the local library!
Give to friends and family. Mail to friends and family. Donate to local resale shop.
We have Little Libraries all over our village. (4 of them) I or my children will always take them there. Or I’ll trade with friends.
I give them away or sell them.
In years very much passed, I left them on a certain windowsill in our little train station and commuters and daytrippers seemed to enjoy picking them up and passing them on.
Donate…….
Second hand bookshop and charity.
Donate them to the library or stick in a free Library around town.
Donate to a library.
Donate them
some i sell, some i gift to other readers and some i donate.
Take them to local used/new book store for credits for more books. The ones they don’t take I take to Little Free Library’s to trade for more books.
I give them to the person that re-ignited my reading desires, my doctor from the hospital I was in at the time
Keep them in case I change my mind.
I list them to sell or give some to local op shops as they’re always looking for new stock.
Donate them to the local library that was reopened by volunteers after the council closed it
Library
Speaking as a school librarian, please think of your local schools as well. We love donations of suitable books! Not ancient non-fiction ones though!!
my books are like YA, fiction, thriller. are those okay for school library?
YA books are always good – as long as the school has children the appropriate age (ie. Teens). General fiction and thriller books may or may not be suitable, but you can use your own judgement and a good school librarian should be able to tell.
http://bookmooch.com/
Give to FORA who have a bookshop in Krugersdorp North
I’m taking em down to book exchange 😉
I usually drop them off at the Leave-One-take-one or Goodwill if I’m in a hurry.
Sell them
I donate to the library.
I am overwhelmed by your responses. THANK YOU!! ? I will try to sell them first, so I can buy more books. Remaining books will be donated to a public library near us. Thank you bookworms!!?
Trade or donate