General Chat

.......about books and magazines. What do you do with yours when you've read them? Recycle, give to friends or library?

Sue xx

SueMaid. As I get through an inordinate amount of paperbacks, I store them until I have about a couple of dozen, then OH takes them to a charity shop called Lighthouse. This is the same with the jigsaws we get through in the winter.
Julia in Derbyshire

Hi Suemaid,
I tend to hoard mine.....As I have such a bad memory I can fetch them out and re-read them after a time and I think I am reading a new book... Lolol

Unless they're ones that I think I may read again (rare) I pass them about........either to my mum and her friends or to anyone I know who may want to read them.
xx

I recycle them usually. Sometimes I cut an article out which I feel might be worth referring to again - which usually ends up adding to the 'stuff' mountain in my living room :))

Scrap book mags I keep and card making, until I have so many I have to get rid of them, then I give them to daughter who sometimes passes them on to her MiL. F History mags I keep until I have too many then advertise them on freecycle

Books, some I keep, some I send to charity shops but they will all have first been read by both myself and daughter as we like the same books, same with hers. I used to have a stall at a car boot sale when I worked (connected with work) but haven't been bothered since I retired.

Ann
Glos

I tend to keep the special ones - gifts and non-fiction usually. Novels I pass around and when they come back they go to the library. Like you Ann I keep my scrapbooking magazines until I get too many then I take them to my scrapbooking group and pass them on. Our local hospital has a little kiosk and they sell 2nd hand books for bargain prices. When I've read them I take them back for them to resell. As you probably can guess I get through a lot of books and magazines.

Sue xx

When I used to be an inpatient at the old hospital, in Derbys, I would very often have a wander round the main ground-floor corridor, and slip into the WRVS shop and buy a paper-back for less than a pound. Now, at the brand spanking new hospital, I have not seen this facility, although there is a WRVS tea-shop. Must remember on Wednesday when I go to ask the ladies in there, if they do not do books anymore. I'm just thinking out loud, to remind myself.
Julia in Derbyshire

i keep all mine even the ones i nmo i wont read again
or i pack them up and send them to mams "she wnt read them" but she keeps them with her books ont he book shelves
then there always there if people want to borrow them xx

If you keep all your books Stray then when you are an oldie like me you won't be able to move for the stacks of books in the house:))

Sue xx

I was going to say the same Sue, looking round this office, three walls are lined with book shelves and books, OH's office has one wall completely lined with book shelves and filled with books. Downstairs a floor to ceiling set of shelves full of books and another two shelves in a cabinet. (and my OH doesn't read books!!)

I have about 100 unread books in this room still to get round to reading. .... So why did I buy a book yesterday in Tesco????

I am an avid reader so accumulate lots of books. Some I take to the local library and the others to a local St Luke's Hospice charity shop as I am a volunteer there.

Some I keep which probably accounts for the 400+ books on my bookcases - but as I said I am an avid reader and do read some over and over again............................excuses, excuses - no, reasons!!!

Whatever - I just love reading!

Steph xx

Ann in Glos, I buy most of my paperbacks in Tesco, the 2 for £7 offer, but tomorrow I am going to a town about 4 miles away, and they have a shop selling paperbacks at £2.99. You can get old copies of an author who you may have read most of his books, but were unable to get perhap his earlier books. Hope that makes sense. They also sell jigsaw puzzles. I'll end up spending a fortune, but it will boost my stocks of both ready for the winter.
Julia in Derbyshire

i tend to buy my books from car boot sales or charty shops
i only buy new if the book is one i no for sure i wana read and keep
but i use the library a lot to xxx

I kept all of my books and had them inventoried because I can't remember the names of them and have to refer to my list before I buy a new one in case I buy one I already have.

My bookcase is a third of a 7ft wall unit which covers almost the entire wall in my living room and when it was full, and the lower cupboards of the unit were full, I decided to have a clean-up. I donated the 'older' half of my books but I still keep the inventory and I've now decided that as I finish reading a book, it goes into the bookshelf - but only after another one comes out! I now make a point of parking near the charity bin when I go to the supermarket and just drop them in!

Put them on my bookshelves, I am making my own little library

Berona I have bought books I've already read before. It's a good idea to have an inventory.

We're quite lucky as our daughter's boyfriend manages a bookstore and he gets the unedited books that are not for sale. The only problem is I now have about 50 books that are waiting to be read and I'm scared I might die before I get to them:) One book I can't wait to read is a biography about Florence Nightingale - should be very interesting.

Agatha your little library may become a big one if you keep all your books:))

Sue xx