'No More Buying Books Until I've Read the Ones I've Already Bought' Thread

carolbee

paybacktime2008 wrote: »

70p in Wiltshire:mad:

Martin's next campaign should be parity between library reservations charges!

are we contributing to the downfall of book shops do you think - hope not.

I love the charity book shops and are lucky to have lots of second hand, new and charity shops near us. Does anyone feel like a murderer THROWING a book away, even it has pages missing?

Aspiring_Writer

carolbee wrote: »

Martin's next campaign should be parity between library reservations charges!

are we contributing to the downfall of book shops do you think - hope not.

I love the charity book shops and are lucky to have lots of second hand, new and charity shops near us. Does anyone feel like a murderer THROWING a book away, even it has pages missing?

I think if its that far gone then no, its in the bin. But having said that I have never binned a book in my life!

Surfbabe

carolbee wrote: »

we had similar with ladybird book -tootles the taxi, |I re-bought it a a year or two ago, as my two (30+now) sons (and I) loved it.

sorry to go off thread!

Tootles the Taxi - I loved that book when I was a child (i;m 51) and my children loved it as well !!!

carolbee

Surfbabe wrote: »

Tootles the Taxi - I loved that book when I was a child (i;m 51) and my children loved it as well !!!

I've just re-read mine!!

I have also repurchased the Father Christmas books by Raymond Briggs (not since I read this thread though).

I think of it as a form of investment (she tries to persuade herself)

anyone else read anything by David Sedaris? from the library of course

Surfbabe

well that last post was a bit off topic - I love books. I've been keeping a list since January 2000 of the books I've read - started as a challenge with a friend in Canada to read all the books by particular authors...... so I have read all of Charles Dickens, Dovstoesky,Mervin Peake (yes all the gomerngast books!) Jane Austen and all of Tolstoy except War and Peace which I am still struggling with.

I love buying books but having got rid of 20 boxes of books last year to a charity shop who had a special section made up of all my books !!!! (I worked for a book company at one time so have about 12 boxes of brand new childrens books that my children had outgrown and didn;t want to keep) I have only bought a few since. I use the library instead, although that is closed at the moment and I can now honestly say I have read every single book in the house (about 300 books).

I may have to resort to buying some on Amazon but I do have some vouchers so it won't really cost me anything ............... will it !!!

katsu

I look at my amazon recommendations and books I see in shops, get ISBN no's, come home and order them via my library (free here). I only buy them if I have renewed them for months and months (such as a cookery book I put on my christmas list and one I got second hand in London. So: library, then second hand, then buy new,in that order.

I also no longer buy fiction - I read it, and if I love it I recommend it to others and am going to keep a list so I can borrow it again. TBH tho I keep finding new reads to move on to.

InaPickle

carolbee wrote: »

Martin's next campaign should be parity between library reservations charges!

I love the charity book shops and are lucky to have lots of second hand, new and charity shops near us. Does anyone feel like a murderer THROWING a book away, even it has pages missing?

Library charges: I live in the Manchester area but under the City of Salford and we used to have charges, but they abolished them recently. People elsewhere might be as lucky, too.

Parity is fine, but only if it means we all pay nothing. Don't start making us have to pay!

And as for 'murdering' books, I don't like it, but I also get REALLY annoyed when I see people hurting CDs, DVDs and musical instruments as well. :mad:

Ames

carolbee wrote: »

Martin's next campaign should be parity between library reservations charges!

are we contributing to the downfall of book shops do you think - hope not.

I love the charity book shops and are lucky to have lots of second hand, new and charity shops near us. Does anyone feel like a murderer THROWING a book away, even it has pages missing?

I have a book I know I'll never read again, but I know I can't get rid of it because it's got half a page missing (it was like that when I got it), so it's on my shelf. I'm mad! I hate to see people fold down the corners to mark their pages, even though I'm happy to lay it face down and open, and I can't even bring myself to write in my open university text books!

It was 40p to reserve a book here a few years ago, I don't know what it is now.

Just been to my book club, got a few ideas for things I want to read, but the good news is that in the next 4 months I only need to buy one book, I've already got the rest.

I'm going to go start Too Close To Home now I think.

niccatw

Just a wee reminder of the book-swapping sites available for those of you need books that are not already in your unread pile

InaPickle wrote: »

If you are anything like me you have bought lots of books you liked the look of while they were on 3 for 2's or other special offers etc., but haven't quite got round to reading them yet, and the chances are that you are adding to your collection at a rate of knots. Putting our MSE-hats on, we know this is not very frugal, and also not very space-savy as books take up quite a lot of room. As a result (and thanks to the idea of the lovely girls on the 'No buying toiletries in February challenge!' which works in a similar way to this one, only with toiletries), I've decided to make this thread in which I vow not to buy any more books until I have read all the ones I own.


This will take quite some time as I have a big box of lovely, unread books next to my bed, and not a lot of time in which to read them. However, I can also read books which I have borrowed off libraries/other people, or, if I sell a book on a website like greenmetropolis.com, I can buy another one to read instead (prefereably for not more than I was paid for the book I just sold). Overall, the number of unread books I own should not increase from the start to the end of the challenge. (I'll do the maths tomorrow before work as there is not enough time today.)


On the up side, we could include a little book review and say what we thought to our latest read.


I will start: my name is Pickle and I own FAR too many unread book. I am currently 2/3 of the way through 'The Code of the Woosters' by P.G. Wodehouse (library lend), and it is very funny so far.


Who is with me on this one?!

EDIT: list of places to buy/sell/swap books (with help from Niccatw )

Sites to sell your books on...
http://www.greenmetropolis.com/index2.asp Very high standards...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/seller/sell-your-stuff.html Always handy...
http://www.ebay.co.uk
Sites to swap your books on...
http://www.readitswapit.co.uk/TheLibrary.aspx
http://www.bookhopper.com/ You can chose which country suits you best. And it’s easy to browse their library
http://bookmooch.com/ Great points system but a lot of American members who aren’t always willing to send to the UK
http://www.paperbackswap.com/index.php
http://www.titletrader.com/
Bookcrossing...
http://www.bookcrossing.com/ You give your book a number and then as it moves from one person to another, you can go online and leave a journal entry for the book, to see where it's gone

solventsoon

lilian1977 wrote: »

it's a book about Barcelona written in the 50s and was only £1. I'm very interested in the history of Spain so it'll be interesting to read about Barcelona as a tourist spot while it was still under Franco's regime!

Have you read Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, lilian? I'm really interested in the history of Catalonia and there's a brilliant book on Barcelona I bought before we went there a few years ago. I'll dig it out and give you the author's name - probably available in the library (before Pickle tells me off for leading you astray:D).

Thanks for the updates nicca