Here's an intersting quiestion.

After you fisinsh reading you books, do you save them or do you trade them in? Or pehaps you just go to the library and check them out?

Me, I always save my books. I like to reread them. I enjoy them just as much the second, third etc...time around as I did the first.

My mom reads a book once and then she trades it in at the used book store and gets more books, finishes them, trades them in and so on and so forth.

How about you?

I keep a lot of the books I buy-at one point I had over 500 books(about 10 years ago then scaled down to 300 or so)- I often go online to the local library's website to request a book and I am always on the lookout for garage and book sales. I know there is an annual book sale at a church near me in April that I try to get to and once a year I go to a town near me in May for the town's garage sale-While there once I picked up a Biography on Marlon Brando(hardcover with pictures)-in the store it went for over $20-I got it for
50 cents. I am always on the lookout for Books by Charles Dickens(fav. author)-read his books when I was a lot younger


I never trade my books in as crazy to some I am sure but if a book becomes special to me it stays on my bookshelf or if given as a gift to me I never get rid of it as I feel the book was given
as a gift-now you have made me wonder if there should not be a post listing the books or authors we have on our bookshelves?-It would be interesting to know what others at AP have read or are currently reading

I buy and keep all my books. Recently I have winnowed through them and given some to friends so that we could remove them from Jadens room and have enough room in other rooms to hold the remaining amount. I had about 3000 books and I am down to about 1000 now.

I have enough books to stock a library.

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Originally posted by juanruiz:
I have enough books to stock a library.

Oh, you could use a librarian then?

I don't know where to start explaining, because I know I'm going to come off sounding like a book snob, and really, I'm not. I keep most of the books I buy. Mainly collections of favourite authors.
They are shelved in alphabetical order, and then subdivided into hard cover and trade paperbacks.
I don't like the smaller paperbacks.
All the childrens' books are similarly divided, in their bookcases. Non-fiction is categorised generally by subject, but not the Dewey Decimal System..it was hard to draw the line, but I'm not a complete freak, you know

Then there's the eternal conflict, because I love antique books, but don't like anything that's got signs that someone else might have read it. Nothing. No greasy fingerprints, damaged spines, or forgotten bookmarks. Discovering a splat of dried food, or worse, as I turn the page, is is almost more than I can cope with. So, ironically, I have a problem with reading most library books.
People that annotate books annoy me. But recently, I realised, I sometimes do it too.
I borrowed Elizabeth Smart's, "By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept," (a cheery little tale) from the library. Someone had annotated it in pencil. I looked more closely, and realised it was my own handwriting from several years ago! I was ashamed.

There, I feel much better, now I've got all that off my chest.

Oh, can I just add one more thing? Bookmarks..look at this article. It really does happen:

The things people use as bookmarks.

It depends. With non-fiction it depends on the subject and whether I feel I will need future reference... i.e. I have LOTS of reference volumes of Who's Who and books on the papacy and English monarchy.

With fiction it depends on how much I enjoy something. For instance, I got through two of Joseph Kanon's books and was not all that enthused, so I got them all to an avid reader. As for authors I like, I do not see ever getting rid of my Stephen King books. I can read "It" over and over and still find new delights.

At last someone found a use for Canadian bacon: an ideal bookmark [dg's link].Bacon bookmark use has been reported in Britain, too, but nobody said whether it was streaky, middle or back bacon, nor what cure or whether it was smoked, rinded or rindless. You'd think librarians would note such particulars.

Keep annotating, dg ! In auction, books that bear annotations by famous readers fetch a lot more than unmarked copies The ideal would be a first edition Trollope, annotated by Dickens, from the library of John Buchan and still with Buchan's Canadian bacon as a bookmark.(Not sure whether Buchan would put bacon in his Trollope, but if he did it would add to the interest)

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Originally posted by FredPuli:
(Not sure whether Buchan would put bacon in his Trollope, but if he did it would add to the interest)

Gordon Ramsey is very fond of bacon with his Trollope.
Sorry, I've made a mistake it's apparently it's Scallop.

Viv

I keep all my books and, like dancegirl, put them in alphabetical order. I've even got a book of Latin poetry I forgot to hand in when I left grammar school. I do the same with my CDs too - and my audiocassettes and my LPs and my videocasssettes, but not, curiously, my DVDs...Mmmm, I wonder why?

Latin poetry Colin? wow so do you read Latin? The oldest book of poems that I have is

Longfellows Poetical Works dated 1883-it was given a long time ago by a pretty woman and is a book I read a few times each week as tho it is old I always find something interesting in it