Do you save the books you've already read?
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philosopher-saint
ANSWERS: 14
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Yes. I am 5 books from owning every book Victoria Holt wrote under that pen name, I love re-reading her work when I want an absorbing novel.
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yes i do unless a friend wants one then i give it away.
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I stash them all like a pirate with golden booty. They're mine! Yarr!
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I save them all, even if I know I won't read them again. Books have souls, they're alive. You can't just throw them away or give them out. Or maybe it's weird, but that's how I feel. They've kept me company when I was lonely countless times, and have their stories to tell. They can be real friends, even the shitty ones. ^_^
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Only he ones I really like, and reference books. As it is I seem to like a lot of them because I have quite a lot.
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I keep all of them.
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Once I have read a book, I keep them for a short while till I have enough of them and give them away to a poor Parish library or a School library.
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I don't save them. I only save biographies. I donate my fiction books to the local library.
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Yes, I would only save the books that I have already read if I want to reread them or need them for future referencing. Otherwise I would donate them to my club's library. I am a regular donor of books.
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I read alot, but the only ones I save are Danielle Steel. My step-father started me on them and I have most all of her books. I do keep all computer related resource books too. Other wise the others once read are pasted on to my sister who in turn passes them to her church for a yard sale to put kids though camp.
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Save them, pass them along or donate....
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I am going through this very issue right now. I bought all these books for my kids and spent tons of money on them and don't want to give them up. I know I should. They have read them and don't touch them EVER anymore. I think I will break down and give them to our local Childrens Hospital very soon. Those poor kids need something to do to get there mind off of there illness. Shelly
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Some, I just can't bear to part with - Orhan Pamuk's My Name is Red Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi Anything by Berendt, Dickens, JANE AUSTEN and Margaret Atwood. Volumes of Poetry My Lewis Carroll collection My Harry Potters Those are my treasures, and I like to read them again and again. Other stuff, like quickie bestsellers and thrillers and mysteries, I give them to the local Medecins sans Frontiers when they hold a charity book bazaar.
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Assuming I've bought them, of course. Otherwise I wouldn't have bought them. I like being able to go back to reference them or read them over if I desire.
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