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What becomes of yours?

Once you read'em...once or maby twice. Stack them? Got a shelf? I live in a tiny space. Only a select few get deemed worth of space. Rest I donate.

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Bexsy

I have a few book shelves. Then i had them in boxes. I then hauled them off and donated. Told myself I would stop collecting more books than I can hold on my book shelves and just use a kindke. But, I really like holding a book in my hands. So here I am again. In same situation all over again

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Punxi · 26-30, F

@JimboSaturn Why I had'da finally tackle that monsters.

JimboSaturn · 51-55, M

@Punxi I find books homey.

Fluffybull · F

@Bexsy I take some books that I didn't care for and won't read again to the charity shop. And then when I'm there, I buy more books.......😆😉

PeachyK · 100+, F

My favorites i keep in a special shelf.
My unfinished abandoneds i keep stacked together on my shelf.
My finished books get stacked under my dresser until i go to a little free library where i leave them for someone else to enjoy.

Punxi · 26-30, F

@PeachyK Book sharing is fabulous community involvement that takes not much investment.

CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

If I had a book I wanted to get rid of I would give it to the common shelf in our apartment building. But that hasn't happened yet. 😅

Punxi · 26-30, F

@CrazyMusicLover Cool! Book Sharing is a great alternative to simply toss'in them. In Seattle the city has tiny houses on posts...like bird houses. Take a book..leave a book.

CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

@Punxi I think it was a brilliant idea. The neighbour who came up with it sadly died already. 😔 But it still works and people still contribute.

OhIsMe · 36-40, M

I have some boxes in the attic and one very very full bookshelf. It's being taken over by toddler books though 😅

Mugin16 · 46-50, M

I have kept most of the books I have bought but I have also started to donate some of the ones I do not read anymore or do not need anymore. I bring them to a local town where they have transformed former public telephone boxes instead book into mini libraries. You can bring three books, which are still in good shape, and leave them there for other people to take them.

Punxi · 26-30, F

@Mugin16 Very cool! They've the same initiative in Seattle. First place to visit that did such.

Fullmetal · 46-50, M

I use the public library, solved that problem

Rambler · 61-69, M

They go on a shelf, or a pile, or somewhere, they almost never leave. After sixty years of reading there's .. well thousands of them I guess. Never counted.

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Rambler · 61-69, M

@Punxi fortunately my spaces got bigger as i got older... also i haven't moved in 25 years which also helps... i just like having them with me, they're a big part of my course in life .

Punxi · 26-30, F

@Rambler Much respect. Far too many I think find zero value in that...which built them.

Rambler · 61-69, M

@Punxi I was always a book person.

Pfuzylogic · M

I have a few contemporary authors I consider my favorites.
Clive Barker
Neil Gaiman
William Gibson.
I keep them as some of my very few possessions. They serve as a muse before I write my own material.

Punxi · 26-30, F

@Pfuzylogic Cool. Love Clive by the way and not a big fan of fiction. The Great and Secret Show my favorite of his...an he got lots.

Pfuzylogic · M

@Punxi
He gets a bit bloody but his imagination in Weaveworld and Imajica is unparalleled. I do recall reading “The Great and Secret Show. I read the first two when they came out and read them a second time the past five years. This might sound unusual but I also generated copious notes and a decent list for my vocabulary. I love analyzing Novels. It is like looking at a master work of art, stroke by stroke.

JimboSaturn · 51-55, M

I keep on a bookshelves and other places. I did purge once and kept about 2/3 of the books I like and got rid of ones that were really worn out and ugly. Got rid of a lot of my wife's trashy novels

Punxi · 26-30, F

@JimboSaturn Haha...The Purge. Recently had to face facts and do the same. Was not easy...but none were Harlequin lol.

Fullmetal · 46-50, M

There's a lady in my neighborhood that has a portable enclosed shelf unit she puts in various locations around the hood. You can donate books, or take them as you wish. It's very popular!

JustNik · 51-55, F

I tend to reread a lot so I hang on to most and only donate if I’m sure I won’t be revisiting. They’re all over the house, on shelves, in cases and cubbies, but I like the look of them, too. 😊

SW-User

My old workplace has a charity bookshop so I take them in. I’d like to have a book collection though

Punxi · 26-30, F

@SW-User Same. If I could keep every book I read I would.

SW-User

Yeah I used to and maybe I will have a bookshelf in my next place. I’ll have a whole shelf of penguin classics just to show off 😅@Punxi

asmalltoken

I still have books from my childhood I cherish. But I keep what I know I'll read again and just take the others to a charity shop.

Punxi · 26-30, F

@asmalltoken Keeping them is a gift. Wish I had. Same...I just donated trunk full.

Shytoshow · 56-60, M

I donate them unless 4example train or bus happen 2be on if finish the book leave 4someone 2find&hopefully enjoy

Spumoni · 46-50, M

I have a tall, narrow bookcase in the bedroom that have several books I've read.

Punxi · 26-30, F

@Spumoni Nice. I've room for only one shelf...period lol. Holds food.

Spumoni · 46-50, M

@Punxi Food is more importanter

Ontheroad · M

Years ago before I had an ereader, I joined an online book swap club. Kept the number of books I had on a shelf to a minimum.

Fluffybull · F

Good books can be read again and again. My books are like friends.

Punxi · 26-30, F

@Fluffybull Mine too. If only I had more space. 😞

SW-User

Your average SW member doesn't read books, they Google porn. That doesn't take up physical space, just hard drive space from all the filthy Internet history.

Punxi · 26-30, F

@SW-User Awww...I'm certain some do. I hear it in them. Yourself included.

canusernamebemyusername · M

@SW-User I have 24 TB of space actually and not even 1 of those are porn. lol It's mostly movies, tv, games, books and music. I love digital hoarding😰

Ingwe · F

I used to donate to the library
not any longer
I just buy more bookshelves

thepreposterouspanda · 36-40, M

Most of 'em are still in a box from a move years ago.

Punxi · 26-30, F

@thepreposterouspanda Perhaps one day they will find their way out. Remind ya why ya read them. 🙂

thepreposterouspanda · 36-40, M

@Punxi Just gotta figure out how I can get my attention span back. Brain lesions are wacky yo. :)

canusernamebemyusername · M

These look brainy. I have the books of Enoch. Not this version but I have them. Lots of mind stuff here though. But I keep them. Or because I ran out of room I try to find an ebook version. I still want that book on the history of the potato🥴

vetguy1991 · 51-55, M

Ive still got a few

SW-User

Some i keep. Like translations from zachariah sitchin, Enoch books, etc. Others i donate to a bookstore

V00doo

I have a house full of mine and my mum's art books that now decorate the shelves.

Punxi · 26-30, F

@V00doo Fabulous. Someday I hope to acquire more space and enjoy the same.

V00doo

@Punxi I do flick through every now and then.

bijouxbroussard · F

I have quite a few bookshelves, and a bookshelf built into one of my walls. And yet I still have similar stacks in places. 😳

Punxi · 26-30, F

@bijouxbroussard Nice! I love recessed shelves. But same...if I had a ginormous space and miels of shelf...I'd still end up with stacks...lol

DDonde · 31-35, M

They're on my shelves. Dunno what to do with the ones I'll never read again.

Punxi · 26-30, F

@DDonde Maybe donate them. Lots of programs out there that help provide books to those whom need them.

Lilnonames · F

Are those books? 🤔, been a long time since i read one😛

Punxi · 26-30, F

@Lilnonames Haha...it's all good. I kinda read lots. 🤷‍♀️

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