When’s the last time you weeded out your library? Do you regularly keep it pared down to your reading essentials? Or does it blossom into something out of control the minute you turn your back, like a garden after a Spring rain?
Or do you simply not get rid of books? At all? (This would have described me for most of my life, by the way.)
And–when you DO weed out books from your collection (assuming that you do) …what do you do with them? Throw them away (gasp)? Donate them to a charity or used bookstore? SELL them to a used bookstore? Trade them on Paperback Book Swap or some other exchange program?
It’s been AGES since I last weeded out my library—in fact, I hardly ever give away books or sell them, even when I moved last year. I did sell back some books in college, but they were math textbooks that I didn’t much want to keep (yet all my books on medieval history and literature are displayed prominently!). I once tried to do one of those swap sites, but I just couldn’t bear to part with books, even the ones I didn’t like all that much!
And “reading essentials?” What are those? :). Atually, I think of all my books as essential, no matter how much I liked or disliked each one of them. My books definitely are getting out of control, so much so that I’ll soon need to buy more bookshelves—if I have room to put them in! I like to keep my “to be read” books separate from the read, so I keep piles of books in random places on the floor.
Or do you simply not get rid of books? At all? (This would have described me for most of my life, by the way.)
And–when you DO weed out books from your collection (assuming that you do) …what do you do with them? Throw them away (gasp)? Donate them to a charity or used bookstore? SELL them to a used bookstore? Trade them on Paperback Book Swap or some other exchange program?
It’s been AGES since I last weeded out my library—in fact, I hardly ever give away books or sell them, even when I moved last year. I did sell back some books in college, but they were math textbooks that I didn’t much want to keep (yet all my books on medieval history and literature are displayed prominently!). I once tried to do one of those swap sites, but I just couldn’t bear to part with books, even the ones I didn’t like all that much!
And “reading essentials?” What are those? :). Atually, I think of all my books as essential, no matter how much I liked or disliked each one of them. My books definitely are getting out of control, so much so that I’ll soon need to buy more bookshelves—if I have room to put them in! I like to keep my “to be read” books separate from the read, so I keep piles of books in random places on the floor.
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I was thinking about selling them, but now I'm planning to give some to my local library, since state funding has been cut. This way I can clear out the clutter and the community can benefit from my mountain of books. Everyone wins!