When’s the last time you weeded out your library? Do you regularly keep it pared down to your reading essentials? Or does it blossom into something out of control the minute you turn your back, like a garden after a Spring rain?
Or do you simply not get rid of books? At all? (This would have described me for most of my life, by the way.)
And–when you DO weed out books from your collection (assuming that you do) …what do you do with them? Throw them away (gasp)? Donate them to a charity or used bookstore? SELL them to a used bookstore? Trade them on Paperback Book Swap or some other exchange program?
A few months ago, I culled my TBR from 800+ down to 400+, I also culled my home library. I seem to feel the need to weed my library about once every year or two. In previous years, I have done a lot of book buying (via Amazon, Chapters, and The Word On The Street festival in Toronto). I have learned my lesson the hard way to borrow books from the library first before wasting my money buying a book I end up not liking. I now prefer to buy only books I know I loved and want to reread. The rest of my library is made up of books I have bought, were free, or had given to me that I haven't read yet. When I do weed my library, I either donate them to one of the two libraries I work at, offer them to friends, or (depending on age and condition of the book) I recycle them.
Read on,
Paula
Or do you simply not get rid of books? At all? (This would have described me for most of my life, by the way.)
And–when you DO weed out books from your collection (assuming that you do) …what do you do with them? Throw them away (gasp)? Donate them to a charity or used bookstore? SELL them to a used bookstore? Trade them on Paperback Book Swap or some other exchange program?
A few months ago, I culled my TBR from 800+ down to 400+, I also culled my home library. I seem to feel the need to weed my library about once every year or two. In previous years, I have done a lot of book buying (via Amazon, Chapters, and The Word On The Street festival in Toronto). I have learned my lesson the hard way to borrow books from the library first before wasting my money buying a book I end up not liking. I now prefer to buy only books I know I loved and want to reread. The rest of my library is made up of books I have bought, were free, or had given to me that I haven't read yet. When I do weed my library, I either donate them to one of the two libraries I work at, offer them to friends, or (depending on age and condition of the book) I recycle them.
Read on,
Paula
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