What do you do with your books after you've read them?

i like to keep my books, and will re-read them at some stage. got to get a book shelf to put them on so i can make some space in the hall way. ive still got all my books from when i was younger, not get rid of them either. they live in a big box over at my mums house.

I've got a full and overflowing bookshelf. I'm reluctant to let go of books that I liked. Books that I didn't like, I give away or donate. I hope that one day when I get my own house I can have a huge library.

We have SO many books in the house... eek! Each daughter has shelves in her room that are usually full to overflowing. Then, there are two bookshelves in the playroom to handle the rest. Books sort of cycle with them. New ones start in their rooms, to be read and re-read (both are avid readers and have been since before kindergarten!). When the shelves get too full, I ask them to sort through and make a pile to be either donated to the school, sold to the secondhand book store, sold at a garage sale or simply given away to other families. The second pile they make has whatever books they are still interested in reading and those migrate to the downstairs shelves. LOL It's a process we repeat several times a year. I never rush them to get rid of books though. I believe their love of reading has evolved into an aptitude for writing and has also greatly furthered them in their studies.

it depends on what kinda book it is.....if it is a novel or general book then it is kept wid me only n if it college books or school books i sell them to second hand market n use the money for myself....

I return them to the library. Most of the books I get I check out rather than purchase. It is just cheaper and I don't have to worry about storing them or moving them or even trying to get rid of them. Of course I have some books that I did purchase and they mostly just sit on the shelves collecting dust.

I always keep the ones that touch me. It seems I always find a friend or family member to loan it out too which often times leads to great discussions. It is those discussions that mean more to me then what I alone got from reading the book.

hmmm....this is an excellent question. i like to read them and then give them away. when i was younger and read childen's books i would love to reread them. but now when i read novels it's takes forever for me to finish them. so i really feel like rereading them. i would choose to drop them off at half price books and cash in on them. sometime i give books out on ocassionally. Just depends on how i feel.

Doesn't matter what the book is; I can't get rid of it. I collect them all and rive the family mad as I have towers of books. Should the one on my bedside table ever collapse I will probably be killed! LOL. I am getting back into children's books, some are really excellent. Which reminds me. I have to upload my latest bedtime story to Youtube.

I have 3 bookshelves of books that I could never part with, most were gifts from my son and most of them are the Stephen King hardcover books which he paid a small fortune for.. I will read everyone of them again before long, so I keep them.. I do also love to read everything I can get my hands on and I have a friend who gives me some books, plus others I find at yard sales.. I love to read Readers Digest and Guideposts also.. Most of my magazines and the Readers Digest and Guideposts are donated to the Ronald McDonald house so that the parents can take them with them as they visit their children in the hospital, they are portable enought to stuff in their purses.. Hardcover book, the ones that I don't keep, are donated to our local library, I usually check out 2 books and donate 2 or 3 when I return the ones that I checked out.. I also keep one of the nurses at my husbands doctor's office supplied in Dean Koontz books.. So, I really do enjoy books and hope everyone else does.. There is no better place to get lost, than in a good book..

We have cycled through many books, though we are getting a collection of them again. They are mostly ones that have not been read, or I have felt like they have not been read thouroughly enouhg. Since most people are not interested in the things we read, it is very rare if they are given to anyone else.

I just love to read and I don't throw any of my books out. They gather dust over time and I like this as crazy as this sounds! If money was no object then I would love to have my own library with hundreds and hundreds of books! I do have my favourite books out of the bunch and I tend to read them over and over! I'm reading Harry Potter once again!!!! Andrew

We have a community book club. A lot of us were talking about this very thing a few years back and we decided to have a meeting once a year and exchange books. I save all of mine up that I wish to get rid of ( I have a few keepers!LOL) and in July we meet at the community center and go through all the books that everyone has donated. What is left we donate to the church for their annual Rummage sale for the kids that go to church camp. We decided on July simply because the church uses the same community building for their sale the following day so we can just leave them there for them and not have to pack them back and forth.

I keep the ones that I truly love and are part of my series books, and the ones I read that I feel are just ok, I sell to my used book store for credit for new books that I purchase there... it works out great that way and for every 20th book I get a free book.

I tend to get attached to books and keep them. I also have a very bad habit of reading mostly the library books and keeping the ones I buy for a rainy day which never comes. When I've finished a book I own which I do not want to keep, I tend to donate it, usually to the library to sell for extra funds.

When I get finished reading my books I either hand them down to my mother or if she is the one who gave them to me I will donate to the library since I love going there and getting books. Makes me feel good about giving the books they are always appreciative. Most books are brand new sometimes. If I kept them they would just collect dust and be in the way.

Since I have moved several times these past few years, I have dramatically cut down on purchasing books. I usually use the local library as my source of reading material, and I only buy books that I really want to add to my collection. Right now, my library is predominantly filled with self-help books and fiction books that have elevated themselves into favorites and worthy to be keepers. I rarely buy anything that I don't want to keep.

I treasure most of my books after I have read them. I have what I consider a library although right now I don't have a physical room that is my library. I have a few paperback books that I enjoy and just pass on, but for the most part I keep my books and treasure them for what I learned from them.

I dont like to sell books. I am a fanatic of my library and I feel very very blue when my wife force me to put some of my books in a box because there is no more space in the bookshelf. But even I know they are going to a box deep somewhere, I dont know to give them away, they are mine, and I kind of fall in love with every book I read and it is very hard for me. I never give a second thought to this, but now... thanks for making me think more.

Just stock them on one of my book cabinets for future references. Not just for me but for my family or even my future children. I sometimes lend it to some of my friends and relatives or I just gave way a few of them for those children who really needs it in their education.. IF the book would be I think, is I dont need..

Well, I don't own a lot of books...mostly I just steal them from my brother...I lend them... The few I own myself, I read a few times...I keep them in a chest...lol