'No More Buying Books Until I've Read the Ones I've Already Bought' Thread 9 February 2010 at 9:52AM edited 21 June 2016 at 2:30PM in Debt-free Wannabe Challenges 4.2K replies 334.2K views

yellowduck_2

love this thread, I thought it was just me, I am not alone, what a fab feeling!!. Does anyone else have upstairs and downstairs books? Downstairs I am reading a biography of Gram Parsons, a cookery book and dipping into a poetry book and upstairs is the current thriller. My other guilty secret is the Ikea bookcase still waiting to be assembled to go in the spare room as a home to all my books that are currently stuffed in the box under my bed. I have to read every day, I would feel deprived if I didn't, it is almost as necessary as food to me.

Ames

I live in a flat, but I have bedroom and living room books, although they sometimes get swapped over.

I've got 6 shelves and one small bookcase to get put up, meanwhile books are stacked and piled up all over the place! My sister's supposed to be helping me, but I think I'm going to have to bite the bullet and pay a handyman. But I keep thinking of how many books I could buy with that money...

terri72

What a great thread. I have loads of books - read & unread.
If my husband catches me with a new book, his eyes roll as if to say our book case can't take any more.

I have a few registered on the following sites
http://www.greenmetropolis.com
http://readitswapit.co.uk
and have just joined
http://www.bookhopper.com
so will be spending my weekend, loading a few books on there.

I love thrillers & crime and am currently reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson.

Ames

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is on my book club list for this year, but I don't think it's till the end of the year.

I tried GM, but their standards are really high - I got a low mark for one five for another, then cancelled an order because the book had got curved while it was stored. So I sold two books and have very little chance of selling any more. I've sold a couple on Amazon and that seems to be a lot better, but slower.

mineallmine

Hey InaPickle great to see you set up this thread! I am getting my book thing under better control but it's still not great. I have an (upstairs) book to read about Decluttering...the Life Laundry...hee hee.

As well as selling books I guess it'd be useful to think of other ways to donate/dispose of them with love and care such as local hospital family rooms, um. Ooh help can't think of others. I guess the local charity shops always welcome them. I love reading I really don't understand why I don't read books more.

I have found that using my local library more has saved me loads of money. I take a look at a site like Amazon, see what is highly rated or in their Top Ten then order it from the library. Sometimes I have to wait quite a bit, but that makes it more exciting. A couple of books recently were disappointing - and ironically the covers looked really good. So one never can judge a book by its cover...:rotfl:

tara747

I'll join... I have sooo many books (mostly 50p bargains from the charity shop) and dream of having the time to read them all!

Ames

I hate the library! I once went into the main city one with a list of about 100 books, they had about 4 but two of them no-one could find, and could only order in about another half dozen. And they weren't obscure ones either, they were mainly classics. Besides, if I had to order them in it'd cost 50p, so I might as well buy them for 25p from a car boot sale.

I love the idea of hospital rooms though, I go to the immunology clinic and there's often ones in the treatment room I want to read, I'm just there for tests at the moment though. I also sometimes just leave books where they'll be loved by someone else - I went to Venice last month and left a book set there in the hostel I stayed at.

gilligansyle

Ames wrote: »

I I also sometimes just leave books where they'll be loved by someone else - I went to Venice last month and left a book set there in the hostel I stayed at.

Place I stayed in Spain last year had a library made up entirely of books people had brought on holiday with them and left behind. Regulars even bring a 'spare' book and leave it. I think I've seen something similar in other hotels, especially if they get a lot of English speakers.


Maybe I will give CCM another go, when I've read everything else.

InaPickle

mineallmine wrote: »

As well as selling books I guess it'd be useful to think of other ways to donate/dispose of them with love and care such as local hospital family rooms, um. Ooh help can't think of others. I guess the local charity shops always welcome them. I love reading I really don't understand why I don't read books more.

Of course we should always donate books as well, if we can. I was just thinking that we are on MSE, so we should try to link the thread back to MSE-ness if possible. However, we should try to be nice and remember those of us less fortunate (or more fortunate, if we consider out book OCDs! :rotfl:) when we can. Charity shops and hospital waiting rooms, here we come!

InaPickle

I've counted the number of books in the box....

...there are eighty three!