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
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.
@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.
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.
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 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.
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.
@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 .
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!
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. 😊
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🥴
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
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.