What you do with books once you read them ?

[gold4dinar]

What you do with books once you read them ?

leave it in drawer
sell
or you read them more then once

[Peaches]

Some I save (very few), some I try to resell on Amazon, if it's a book a friend or relative will like, I give to them (not wrapped up as a gift or anything - they know it's "used" ) and if worse comes to worse, I donate them to the library.

[Vick]

They go on a bookcase and if good are read again

If it's a good book I might read it as much as once a year

Chris, Sebastian and I all read a good deal

[Nickatilynx]

I put them in boxes...lol

It drives my wife insane

( a most excellent reason to do it)

But in my new house I have a music room /den / library so I'm having shelves put up to put them on in order to make people believe I can read.

[TheEnforcer]

I keep em and read many of them over again. Hell, I have just about every Dragonlance book ever written. I have a boatload of Piers Anthony books from when I was young. Every Terry Brooks Shanarra and Landover series novels. Have a bunch of Forgottn realms books, mostly the Drizzt Do'Urden series. All of Terry godkind's books. All of John Grisham and Patricia Cornwell's books except the latest each has put out. And a bunch of fiction books, biographies, and other stuff that I enjoyed reading and kept.

[PornoDoggy]

I put them on shelves or in boxes.

Annually, I go on a binge where I firmly resolve to get rid of a bunch of them. Dozens will come off the shelves. 2nd thoughts cause most of them to go back on the shelves.

I give the remainder away to the library for their annual sale (this year I didn't change my mind about any of them in the car - I was so proud of myself), where I usually buy at least 2x what I've given away.

[Almighty Colin]

http://www.linkification.com/linked/books.jpg

[sarettah]

Books are for burning, not for reading.

It's the Merican way !

[gold4dinar]

Originally Posted by Almighty Colin

http://www.linkification.com/linked/books.jpg

Nice collection

I wanted to make something like Nick said, put them on shelves.

In box and I leave them on attic.

[justb]

I used to do the bookstore trade store deal. Now I just use the library. It's right by my house and I make my picks online and they email me when they're ready for pick up. The only books I keep are cookbooks or classic books.

[PornoDoggy]

Originally Posted by TheEnforcer

I keep em and read many of them over again. Hell, I have just about every Dragonlance book ever written. I have a boatload of Piers Anthony books from when I was young. Every Terry Brooks Shanarra and Landover series novels. Have a bunch of Forgottn realms books, mostly the Drizzt Do'Urden series. All of Terry godkind's books. All of John Grisham and Patricia Cornwell's books except the latest each has put out. And a bunch of fiction books, biographies, and other stuff that I enjoyed reading and kept.

I read a variety of things - American History, European History, a smattering of Asian history, International Affairs since 1870, American Civil War history, political biographys, political autobiographies, World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam. There is an off-the-wall assortment of fiction in there too.

For my mental "junk food" I've gone through a number of phases. I got into fantasy for a long wihile (read all the Shannara books, the Thomas Covenent Unbeliever books), the Dragonriders of Pern, etc. Was into science fiction for a long time - my grandson now has a gateway computer box full of all kinds of stuff, including just about anything Allen Dean Foster ever wrote that wasn't Star Trek.

Lately my junk food has been either True Crime (there's Ann Rule and everybody else) or detective novels (most recent "discovery" is Ed McBain; I "discovered" him 72 books into a series he started writing in the 50s, and about six weeks before he died).

[TheEnforcer]

I've been hooked on fantasy books since I was a kid. I also like reading political books as well. My most recent non-fiction book is The Fair Tax Book by Neil Boortz and congressmen John Linder. I wish everyone in the USA would read that one and press their congressional reps to support the proposal.

[pushpills]

either display, loan out to friends, or give back to my ex-girlfriend.

[Newton]

Read them, keep the ones i like and burn the rest ..

[Sin]

Originally Posted by TheEnforcer

I keep em and read many of them over again. Hell, I have just about every Dragonlance book ever written. I have a boatload of Piers Anthony books from when I was young. Every Terry Brooks Shanarra and Landover series novels. Have a bunch of Forgottn realms books, mostly the Drizzt Do'Urden series. All of Terry godkind's books. All of John Grisham and Patricia Cornwell's books except the latest each has put out. And a bunch of fiction books, biographies, and other stuff that I enjoyed reading and kept.

Please feel free to loan me all of the Piers Anthony books!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I fucking LOVE that author, he's brilliant!

What I do with books once I've read them really depends on what type of book they are. If they're my school texts they get put back on my shelf & ignored but used as reference points later on down the road more often than not... if they're quality novels I keep them & re-read them. If they're cheap cheesy romance novels that I occasionally read for mindless entertainment then they end up given away to some other person once I'm done reading them

[XxXotic]

depends, some books i keep and the rest I donate to book drives and/or school libraries

[Carrie]

You can trade your books online at www.bookins.com. You get points for each one you send out, and then use those points to get books from other people. They start you out with 10 or so points.

I usually keep 'em. Have 5 7-foot tall bookcases in my library, and just bought two more 4-foot ones last Sunday. Going to get another one this weekend.

[MorganGrayson]

Originally Posted by Almighty Colin

http://www.linkification.com/linked/books.jpg

*tingle*

Thanks for the pic, Colin! (Finally! A pic that turns me on!)

I keep my books because I love rereading them. The ones I don't want to keep I donate to a facility in my little town that is a home for scizophrenics. I love donating there because this place gets *no* donations and the facial expressions on the workers are fun to see. Have to explain "yes, these are for your patients to read, you get to keep them, I'm *giving* them to you...no, I don't need a reciept that you're not even set up to give me...just take the books, sit down, breathe deeply and all will be well." (The time we did a total house clean and gathered up games, books, stuffed animals, magazines, etc., etc. and brought all the stuff in I swear we nearly put several of the attendants in the hospital, they were so shocked.) This place is full of people that society and family have labeled disposable, so we do what we can. Books that aren't suitable for them I sell on eBay.

[Almighty Colin]

Originally Posted by MorganGrayson

*tingle*

Thanks for the pic, Colin! (Finally! A pic that turns me on!)

I keep my books because I love rereading them. The ones I don't want to keep I donate to a facility in my little town that is a home for scizophrenics. I love donating there because this place gets *no* donations and the facial expressions on the workers are fun to see. Have to explain "yes, these are for your patients to read, you get to keep them, I'm *giving* them to you...no, I don't need a reciept that you're not even set up to give me...just take the books, sit down, breathe deeply and all will be well." (The time we did a total house clean and gathered up games, books, stuffed animals, magazines, etc., etc. and brought all the stuff in I swear we nearly put several of the attendants in the hospital, they were so shocked.) This place is full of people that society and family have labeled disposable, so we do what we can. Books that aren't suitable for them I sell on eBay.

Same here. They make great reference. For those things you can't find on the internet.

[MorganGrayson]

I remember sitting on the couch holding hands with my husband (I was in tears, his eyes were just glistening) as we went into major debt with the nice saleslady from Encyclopedia Britannica. We'd purchased a brand new, up-to-date set of encyclopedias for our children. It was one of the biggest events in our lives. (This was pre-internet.) I used to just touch them some days and pick a volume and open it at random at other days.

I had two growls. One was "look it up!" The other was "look it FUCKING UP!"

(OK, three growls. "If you DON'T FUCKING LOOK IT UP, I'm going to grab a volume and beat you with it!!!!" They knew that was an empty threat, though. Mommy would *never* abuse a book like that.)

[Nickatilynx]

""The ones I don't want to keep I donate to a facility in my little town that is a home for scizophrenics."""

They tend to have very lively book club meetings.

Only 5 people attend but there are as many as 40 differing opinions.

[MorganGrayson]

Originally Posted by Nickatilynx

""The ones I don't want to keep I donate to a facility in my little town that is a home for scizophrenics."""

They tend to have very lively book club meetings.

Only 5 people attend but there are as many as 40 differing opinions.

[Nickatilynx]

Originally Posted by MorganGrayson

I remember sitting on the couch holding hands with my husband (I was in tears, his eyes were just glistening) as we went into major debt with the nice saleslady from Encyclopedia Britannica. We'd purchased a brand new, up-to-date set of encyclopedias for our children. It was one of the biggest events in our lives. (This was pre-internet.) I used to just touch them some days and pick a volume and open it at random at other days.

I had two growls. One was "look it up!" The other was "look it FUCKING UP!"

(OK, three growls. "If you DON'T FUCKING LOOK IT UP, I'm going to grab a volume and beat you with it!!!!" They knew that was an empty threat, though. Mommy would *never* abuse a book like that.)

I bought a set too!! LOL

Must have been late 80s.

I know I got a facsimile copy "free" of the first one ever.

No noble reason why I bought them ,I bought them cause the saleswoman was HOT!!!!.

Took about 6 visits to persuade me to decide to get them and allow me to get her

I think they were around GBP1500

[el pres]

I read around 3 books a week.. keep them all, and read them again in a year or so.
Unless they are crap, then I send them to my sister...

[DrGuile]

Anyone has read/reads Clive Barker? (not the shorts, but the novels like Imajica, Great and Secret Show, Everville, etc?)

[MorganGrayson]

Originally Posted by DrGuile

Anyone has read/reads Clive Barker? (not the shorts, but the novels like Imajica, Great and Secret Show, Everville, etc?)

I've never read them, but my youngest daughter is a huge Clive Barker fan.


You're a true scoundrel, Nick.

[Trev]

Originally Posted by el pres

Unless they are crap, then I send them to my sister...

So I'm not the only one that gives his sister crap.

[DrGuile]

Originally Posted by MorganGrayson

I've never read them, but my youngest daughter is a huge Clive Barker fan.


You're a true scoundrel, Nick.

No offense to you personally , but Im guessing your youngest isnt like 10-12?

[MorganGrayson]

Originally Posted by DrGuile

No offense to you personally , but Im guessing your youngest isnt like 10-12?

No offense taken.

My youngest is 23.

[Lisa]

I read every book at least twice. The first time I read it, I'm in such a hurry to get to the end and find out what happens I miss the nuances, so I go back and read it again almost straight away.

Most of my books I keep and re-read and re-read. I'm on my 3rd copy of 'The Thorn Birds'...it's my all time favourite book, and I read it at least once a year.

[PornoDoggy]

We had a local independent bookstore near here until this summer - unusual in a town of 20,000 - and I bought what has to be my 6th copy of the Lord of the Rings trilogy during their close-out sale. They were out of the Sherlock Holmes I wanted to grab - it probably would have been the 8th copy of the complete works I've owned since Jr. High School.

I have a lot more friends and children who borrow books than I do who return them.

[LadyMischief]

I keep them all and re-read them later.

[TheEnforcer]

Originally Posted by Sin

Please feel free to loan me all of the Piers Anthony books!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I fucking LOVE that author, he's brilliant!

What I do with books once I've read them really depends on what type of book they are. If they're my school texts they get put back on my shelf & ignored but used as reference points later on down the road more often than not... if they're quality novels I keep them & re-read them. If they're cheap cheesy romance novels that I occasionally read for mindless entertainment then they end up given away to some other person once I'm done reading them

I have like the first 20 or so Xanth books. I think the last oen I bought was Yon Ill Wind. I have all of the Incarnations of Immortality series. (probably the best series of books I have ever read) I also have all of the Apprentice Adept series.

[MorganGrayson]

Originally Posted by PornoDoggy

We had a local independent bookstore near here until this summer - unusual in a town of 20,000 - and I bought what has to be my 6th copy of the Lord of the Rings trilogy during their close-out sale. They were out of the Sherlock Holmes I wanted to grab - it probably would have been the 8th copy of the complete works I've owned since Jr. High School.

I have a lot more friends and children who borrow books than I do who return them.

I'm currently rereading my well worn, hardcover complete Sherlock Holmes collection, which is falling apart on me. I'm also going to branch into the writers who've continued the series. So far all I've read is "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution," which was well written in the "Dr. Watson style," but drove me crazy none-the-less.

[Nickatilynx]

Originally Posted by MorganGrayson

I'm currently rereading my well worn, hardcover complete Sherlock Holmes collection, which is falling apart on me. I'm also going to branch into the writers who've continued the series. So far all I've read is "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution," which was well written in the "Dr. Watson style," but drove me crazy none-the-less.

Windin' your way down on Baker Street
Light in your head and dead on your feet
Well another crazy day
You'll drink the night away
And forget about everything
This city desert makes you feel so cold.
It's got so many people but it's got no soul
And it's taken you so long
To find out you were wrong
When you thought it held everything

You used to think that it was so easy
You used to say that it was so easy
But you're tryin'
You're tryin' now
Another year and then you'll be happy
Just one more year and then you'll be happy
But you're cryin'
You're cryin' now

Way down the street there's a light in his place
He opens the door he's got that look on his face
And he asks you where you've been
You tell him who you've seen
And you talk about anything

He's got this dream about buyin' some land
He's gonna give up the booze and the one night stands
And then he'll settle down in some quiet little town
And forget about everything

But you know he'll always keep movin'
You know he's never gonna stop movin
Cause he's rollin'
He's the rollin' stone

And when you wake up it's a new mornin'
The sun is shinin' it's a new mornin'
You're goin'
You're goin' on.

[MorganGrayson]

Originally Posted by Nickatilynx

Windin' your way down on Baker Street
Light in your head and dead on your feet
Well another crazy day
You'll drink the night away
And forget about everything
This city desert makes you feel so cold.
It's got so many people but it's got no soul
And it's taken you so long
To find out you were wrong
When you thought it held everything

You used to think that it was so easy
You used to say that it was so easy
But you're tryin'
You're tryin' now
Another year and then you'll be happy
Just one more year and then you'll be happy
But you're cryin'
You're cryin' now

Way down the street there's a light in his place
He opens the door he's got that look on his face
And he asks you where you've been
You tell him who you've seen
And you talk about anything

He's got this dream about buyin' some land
He's gonna give up the booze and the one night stands
And then he'll settle down in some quiet little town
And forget about everything

But you know he'll always keep movin'
You know he's never gonna stop movin
Cause he's rollin'
He's the rollin' stone

And when you wake up it's a new mornin'
The sun is shinin' it's a new mornin'
You're goin'
You're goin' on.

Ummm...thank you, Nick. One assumes.

(However, if that's stuck in my head for the rest of the day, I'm coming after you with a stick!)

[Red]

I re read the ones I love. Most paperbacks I bring to the book trader, but hardcovers go in the bookcase.

Before I got my first computer I read 3-4 books per week, Now it's about 1.

My tastes range. I love reading biographies, mysteries, legal dramas, humor, politics. My guilty pleasure is Jackie Collins. Her books are such fun trash.