I keep those I liked best, the others I sell that way I get a little extra money for new books.
PM_ME_YOUR_MONTRALS on
I don’t buy them if I don’t plan to keep them.
kigurumibiblestudies on
I keep only the really pretty ones ever since I realized I only read most books once.
Fast_Way8546 on
I have many bookselves and crates lol. The ones I don’t give a B or higher to get donated to the local cancer center….which is if I had to guess maybe 15% of the time maybe less. Actually reading one that will def go there…..”Mrs. Dolloaway” by Virginia Woolf. I assume it gets good but its kinda meh so far for me
shelf-esteem on
I keep them as trophies and look at them standing on my shelves.
SirHenryofHoover on
Keep, and store boxes in storage of those I longer want on display in my bookshelves. Will have to donate eventually, of course.
BigBoxOfGooglyEyes on
Return them to the library that I borrowed them from
clementineday55 on
I log every book I read in a Google Doc, keep the ones I really really love and give the rest to friends or put them in a Little Free Library
Particular_Play_1432 on
Depends. Books aren’t sacred objects, but I keep a lot of them — ever since college, I’ve already read with a pen or highlighter in my hand, so I’ll keep anything I’ve made a lot of notes in, or that I really loved. Others just go to one of the neighborhood LFLs, or just out on the sidewalk for someone else to pick up. Sometimes they just go in the trash if they’re in bad shape or it’s unlikely anyone will ever need/want them.
NiteNicole on
We had to move a few times and packing up hundreds of books was very eye opening. At this point, I mostly get books from the library unless it’s an author I know I’ll reread.
For some dumb reason, this summer I have gone back to my old book-buying ways. I still only keep the ones I think I’ll reread. The rest go to Little Free Libraries or Friends of the Library.
12345678_nein on
Add them to the burn pile.
thinwhen on
If I really don’t like a book I’ll get rid of it by selling or donating it. If I love it I’ll keep it. If I loved it but borrowed it from a library, I might buy my own copy (at least as an ebook).
I think I keep most of the books I finish even if I don’t love them. It’s just a habit to put them back on the shelf and get a new one. I also tend to donate books (and clothes and bric a brac) every five or so years including ones I thought I’d hang onto forever.
The books I really loved as a teen are in storage but I gave lots away a few years ago and unfortunately just had to buy them back because I wanted to re-read. Which is so typical because I’d held onto them for over a decade without re-reading!
FLIPSIDERNICK on
I save hardcovers because I like the way they look. Paperbacks usually go to the library.
OwlLov3r on
I absolutely keep my favorites/books I’ll probably reread down the road. Otherwise, I donate them to Goodwill. However, I have been thinking lately of building a free library.
USS-Stofe on
Either return them to the library if I checked them out from there or place them on my shelf if I bought them. Typically the books on my shelf are the absolute favorites/books I consistently reread. Others that are older or I don’t go back to as much I put in drawers or other areas for storage.
OtherwordyEditor on
I eventually donate books I’ve read to my local library or go to a book swap. My favorites and “core books” stay on my shelves, though, and more likely, I’ll have different editions of them (e.g. Letters to a Young Poet by Rilke, Great Expectations, The Fact of a Doorframe by Adrienne Rich, Where the Wild Things Are, The Bell Jar and Ariel by Sylvia Plath, etc.).
Scared_Ad2563 on
I largely keep all my books. It is my dream to have a home library and joke that I am a dragon with a book hoard. I don’t move around a lot, so packaging them up to move them is not an annoying enough occurrence.
I do get rid of books I really didn’t like. I know the locations of a few little free libraries in my area, so I drop them off there.
Far-Significance2481 on
I used to give most of them away.
D3s0lat0r on
If I thought they were cool, I keep them. If they bring down my library I get rid of them. Sometimes I use the library as well, in that case they get returned. I just read “the trees” by Everett, from the library and was like, damn. Would’ve kept that one! lol
Itsjustmenobiggie on
Return them to the library
gokartmozart89 on
I keep them. A lot of my early chapter books like The Hobbit and Hunt for Red October were books my dad kept on a shelf. I’m doing the same. A book on a shelf with a cover you can see and touch does a lot to spark a kid’s imagination and interest.
Jarita12 on
If I like it, I usually keep it. They do seem to pile up a bit but I don t think I am going to read them soon again but one day, maybe.
Adamaja456 on
Donate the ones I won’t read again and keep my favorites that I know have multi re read value
CozyHufflepuff94 on
If I like them and think I might reread them I will keep them. If I didn’t like it that much, I will either bring it to the library or use it to restock a little free library.
amandapendragon on
If I live it and know I’ll revisit it again, I keep it. Otherwise I sell it to my local bookshop or feed the tiny library in my neighborhood.
Sufficient-Fig5301 on
I have become a bit of a desperate bookmark hoarder, in a way. Once I’ve read a book that I enjoy, especially one that touches me emotionally, I will seek out an ebook version (even if I initially read it electronically). Then, I’ll open it in **AceThinker Textbook Editor**.
This tool enables me to edit and annotate the PDF version. I will be highlighting lines that I remember, commenting on how a chapter left me, and making other notes in the margins of the book that serve as future reminders. It is becoming a book that’s sort of a journal. There are some books I now even have a personal reflection page at the end of them, where I brain-dump everything I was thinking when closing the book.
Here is one: I did it with The Night Circus. I was so strangely drawn to that book. I just put small star symbols next to each of the chunks of prose that made me feel that soft, cinematic effect, and I made notes in parentheses of where I envisioned I was in each of those scenes. I even switched out the font of the chapter headings just to do so. 😂
It may sound a bit cheesy, but it makes me feel connected to the books that are important to me. Over the years, I have found myself enjoying creating this small collection of ebooks that have been lived in as much as their creations, like a personal bookshelf of moments more than writing.
xTalanx on
I keep them for future reading on my bookshelves. Books to me are more than just things to be read and discarded. New things can be learned each read. But I also enjoy the paper, seeing the words, flipping the page, the sounds and feels of a wellbound book. The way they age. I just have them on my shelves and feel comfort being surrounded by them. Im not against digital at all. And its way more efficient than paper bound books, but you have to admit there is something deeply special about physical books and words on real paper.
boomfruit on
Return them to the library
FlamingDragonfruit on
I’m assuming you’re asking about books you’ve purchased. I keep the ones I really loved, to read again or to loan to friends. The rest I donate to the library.
cidvard on
Usually donate to the library or trade to a used bookstore if I don’t think I’ll want to read it again. I try to be a library-first person with most stuff now.
Ok-Baker-376 on
I keep them all. You never know when you’ll need to revisit an emotional crisis from 2017.
shiny_dancerr on
I keep them unless I really hated them. In that case, I’ll put them in the LFL and hope someone else likes them better
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I keep those I liked best, the others I sell that way I get a little extra money for new books.
I don’t buy them if I don’t plan to keep them.
I keep only the really pretty ones ever since I realized I only read most books once.
I have many bookselves and crates lol. The ones I don’t give a B or higher to get donated to the local cancer center….which is if I had to guess maybe 15% of the time maybe less. Actually reading one that will def go there…..”Mrs. Dolloaway” by Virginia Woolf. I assume it gets good but its kinda meh so far for me
I keep them as trophies and look at them standing on my shelves.
Keep, and store boxes in storage of those I longer want on display in my bookshelves. Will have to donate eventually, of course.
Return them to the library that I borrowed them from
I log every book I read in a Google Doc, keep the ones I really really love and give the rest to friends or put them in a Little Free Library
Depends. Books aren’t sacred objects, but I keep a lot of them — ever since college, I’ve already read with a pen or highlighter in my hand, so I’ll keep anything I’ve made a lot of notes in, or that I really loved. Others just go to one of the neighborhood LFLs, or just out on the sidewalk for someone else to pick up. Sometimes they just go in the trash if they’re in bad shape or it’s unlikely anyone will ever need/want them.
We had to move a few times and packing up hundreds of books was very eye opening. At this point, I mostly get books from the library unless it’s an author I know I’ll reread.
For some dumb reason, this summer I have gone back to my old book-buying ways. I still only keep the ones I think I’ll reread. The rest go to Little Free Libraries or Friends of the Library.
Add them to the burn pile.
If I really don’t like a book I’ll get rid of it by selling or donating it. If I love it I’ll keep it. If I loved it but borrowed it from a library, I might buy my own copy (at least as an ebook).
I think I keep most of the books I finish even if I don’t love them. It’s just a habit to put them back on the shelf and get a new one. I also tend to donate books (and clothes and bric a brac) every five or so years including ones I thought I’d hang onto forever.
The books I really loved as a teen are in storage but I gave lots away a few years ago and unfortunately just had to buy them back because I wanted to re-read. Which is so typical because I’d held onto them for over a decade without re-reading!
I save hardcovers because I like the way they look. Paperbacks usually go to the library.
I absolutely keep my favorites/books I’ll probably reread down the road. Otherwise, I donate them to Goodwill. However, I have been thinking lately of building a free library.
Either return them to the library if I checked them out from there or place them on my shelf if I bought them. Typically the books on my shelf are the absolute favorites/books I consistently reread. Others that are older or I don’t go back to as much I put in drawers or other areas for storage.
I eventually donate books I’ve read to my local library or go to a book swap. My favorites and “core books” stay on my shelves, though, and more likely, I’ll have different editions of them (e.g. Letters to a Young Poet by Rilke, Great Expectations, The Fact of a Doorframe by Adrienne Rich, Where the Wild Things Are, The Bell Jar and Ariel by Sylvia Plath, etc.).
I largely keep all my books. It is my dream to have a home library and joke that I am a dragon with a book hoard. I don’t move around a lot, so packaging them up to move them is not an annoying enough occurrence.
I do get rid of books I really didn’t like. I know the locations of a few little free libraries in my area, so I drop them off there.
I used to give most of them away.
If I thought they were cool, I keep them. If they bring down my library I get rid of them. Sometimes I use the library as well, in that case they get returned. I just read “the trees” by Everett, from the library and was like, damn. Would’ve kept that one! lol
Return them to the library
I keep them. A lot of my early chapter books like The Hobbit and Hunt for Red October were books my dad kept on a shelf. I’m doing the same. A book on a shelf with a cover you can see and touch does a lot to spark a kid’s imagination and interest.
If I like it, I usually keep it. They do seem to pile up a bit but I don t think I am going to read them soon again but one day, maybe.
Donate the ones I won’t read again and keep my favorites that I know have multi re read value
If I like them and think I might reread them I will keep them. If I didn’t like it that much, I will either bring it to the library or use it to restock a little free library.
If I live it and know I’ll revisit it again, I keep it. Otherwise I sell it to my local bookshop or feed the tiny library in my neighborhood.
I have become a bit of a desperate bookmark hoarder, in a way. Once I’ve read a book that I enjoy, especially one that touches me emotionally, I will seek out an ebook version (even if I initially read it electronically). Then, I’ll open it in **AceThinker Textbook Editor**.
This tool enables me to edit and annotate the PDF version. I will be highlighting lines that I remember, commenting on how a chapter left me, and making other notes in the margins of the book that serve as future reminders. It is becoming a book that’s sort of a journal. There are some books I now even have a personal reflection page at the end of them, where I brain-dump everything I was thinking when closing the book.
Here is one: I did it with The Night Circus. I was so strangely drawn to that book. I just put small star symbols next to each of the chunks of prose that made me feel that soft, cinematic effect, and I made notes in parentheses of where I envisioned I was in each of those scenes. I even switched out the font of the chapter headings just to do so. 😂
It may sound a bit cheesy, but it makes me feel connected to the books that are important to me. Over the years, I have found myself enjoying creating this small collection of ebooks that have been lived in as much as their creations, like a personal bookshelf of moments more than writing.
I keep them for future reading on my bookshelves. Books to me are more than just things to be read and discarded. New things can be learned each read. But I also enjoy the paper, seeing the words, flipping the page, the sounds and feels of a wellbound book. The way they age. I just have them on my shelves and feel comfort being surrounded by them. Im not against digital at all. And its way more efficient than paper bound books, but you have to admit there is something deeply special about physical books and words on real paper.
Return them to the library
I’m assuming you’re asking about books you’ve purchased. I keep the ones I really loved, to read again or to loan to friends. The rest I donate to the library.
Usually donate to the library or trade to a used bookstore if I don’t think I’ll want to read it again. I try to be a library-first person with most stuff now.
I keep them all. You never know when you’ll need to revisit an emotional crisis from 2017.
I keep them unless I really hated them. In that case, I’ll put them in the LFL and hope someone else likes them better