does anyone else have a hard time letting them go?

I have to simplify the home place while I have the time this summer. I have to get rid of books, but the truth is if I could I'd rather build a library in the back out of bamboo than let them go....

out with the old...well some of it

does anyone else get all happy at the sound of pages turning? I used the big honking unbridged dictionary I have the other day even though I could have looked up what I needed on the internet....I miss that sound

I hate getting rid of books . .

I L-O-V-E books. Parting with particular favorites is like being asked to give up a great friend. I just can't.

The only success I've had in trimming the numbers is when we moved to our most recent house in December 2007. I allotted myself 20 shelves in the new house and took a few weeks to go through every book I owned. I ended up giving about 30 large boxes of books to the Los Angeles public library (some for their shelves; some for their book sales).

I'm not like this with anything else: not with clothing, not with other household possessions, not even with cigars. There's something about books and the time spent with them.

ScottHar

If you save them, do you ever read them again?

yes...I read them again

but I rarely get to sit down with a good novel.

I have a lot of poetry, fiction I want to read but didn't get a chance to yet and random nonfiction. And then there are the coffee table books I want the kids to be able to look at and read when they get older.

Scott- me too...it's only the books

and as an adult ed. teacher I keep a lot of text books because funding for text books is so limited for adult literacy...every single person has different gaps in their knowledge from 1st through 12th grade in all major subjects. I don't have an office, so if they are mine I keep them at home. We are getting more space and moving the class soon, so I'm hoping I'll have some professional space where I can lock them up so my coworker doesn't give them away LOL

WATERBOARD BOOKS!

dang...

Yeah, I never let anything go! But I limit myself in what I buy as it can get expensive. Thank God for the Library!

LUV books. I have 1000s. Many are reference works, theologies, commentaries, lexicons, dictionaries, devotionals, spirituals, historical, background/milieu works, as well as an ever steady stream of current studies: cultural, philosophical, political, social, moral, ...it never ends...

So little time, so many books... sigh...

Oh, don't mind a Dirk Pitt adventure every now and then, too!

Books are like tresures to me, and book stores are one of my favorite hang outs......

Charlie

I am an incessant reader.

Books rule.

But I often give 'keepers' away, in the hopes that the next person will get the same pleasure I got from the reading.

I'm an avid book reader. I can't be without a book.

That said, I always buy paperbacks and I do keep them around for awhile, but eventually they end up at the library or a local used book store.

I do have a few favorites that I have read more than once that I've kept.

I have a leather bound bible that I got when I was 13 for my birthday.

I use them for Kinlin in firepit!!!

Buy me books and buy me books and all I do is eat the pages.

That sounds great. Have you tried the yellow pages??? Different taste but not bad!!!