I give them to a small used bookstore in Placerville.

I found that solution to be very satisfying.

Lotsa book readers in New Haven (as one would expect).

Depending on how many books you have to unload, of course.

Hmmm... wonder if LFLs can be found on any online maps. We have three in a radius of about 100 yards. But then, this is Liberal City, USA (as well as Surf City, UUSA).

So....

I had the luxury of space when I moved, but committed to, and followed through on slowly culling my collection. Took a while, and by golly I miss a few, but overall I fell good about sharing them with others. Donated to veteran’s charities

Getting rid of them feels like we are cutting out a part of ourselves. Especially if they are books we read over and over again. They are our collection/hobby, and getting rid of something we love hurts.

...but I'll get rid of them when they pry them out of my cold, dead, stiff fingers.

Or any of the other 900+ books on my shelves.

The only reason I had to get rid of some books recently was due to water damage. It really hurt, because they were from my childhood, and I think the only way you could find them now is to go a used book store that specializes in old books.

Books I never expected to find again--like the "Mushroom Planet" series, or "Brains Benton".

Alibris is another good site to check.

Many of my books have indeed become like friends. They were a joy to read and I learned a great deal from them, including how to write. Maybe that's the most important thing.

They are part of my identity.

Many thrift shops are also great places to buy books

We feel a connection with books that move or inspire us.

We regularly donate books to local libraries for their book sales… but have become disillusioned with this, since book resellers march in and buy entire shelves of these books for cheap before the general public has a chance at them.

Donating to little free libraries that have popped up here and there is a possibility.

In the end I will construct a mausoleum of my books into which I will be interred …






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They will have my James Lee Burke books when they pry them from my cold dead hands. Hopefully a long time from now.

HOWEVER, My wife and I constantly ask ourselves, “have I read this book.” So after six months or so we gotta a”new” book to read. Young people don’t have that super power.

I know most people think re-reading a book is silly - "You already know what happens." While not a speed reader, I am pretty fast, and when I re-read a book, I pick up lots of details I may not have retained from the first reading. With some authors, I simply love the way they put words together and enjoy re-savoring their skill.

No one seems to think it odd if people watch a good movie more than once (Wizard of Oz, Sound of Music, It's a Beautiful Life, etc), and people listen to favorite songs hundreds, if not thousands, of times. Why should that be any different for books?

Some of my most re-read books - Little Women, Rebecca, Winds of War and War and Remembrance, Wrinkle in Time, and The Devil Wore Prada.

One time when we moved, we had 50 boxes of books.

Getting rid of them would be like loosing an appendage.

Probably the main reason we have not downsized...yet.

One lady I worked with over a period of weeks we went though every book she had in multiple bookcases. We ended up donating 50 boxes of books, I come home and look at my bookcases and feel guilty I have so many books.

We have always joked that we needed by an abandoned library with a house and yard attached, lol.

They may not want things like mass market paperback, textbooks and such. My son has an unaffiliated little library that I have also contributed to. It's in northern Minnesota so really only active half the year. Children's books are most popular, adult non-fiction much less so.

You're discarding a part of yourself.

Give 'em away.

put a post on your local Facebook site and offer free books to be picked up at your driveway. I can't stand to throw books away.

Good luck!

..."throw out books?" Those three words make no sense without appropriate modifiers, e.g. "not throw out books," or "I'd rip my own heart out and eat it with mustard to avoid throwing out books."

There, I fixed it for you. We can both feel better now.

at least sift through and find out what’s they’re worth. u can scan the ibn (?)# or bar code to look them up. u cd end up w a tidy sum.
have a friend who makes a living selling used books.

Not that we're moving, but back in around '14, I had to temporarily give up my office until a new building was complete.
I was only there about half the time anyway and for safety reasons, staff in the non-permanent structures in the operating units. So, my office was needed.
Anyway, in a safe area, they brought in trailers for those of us displaced, but having to put 3 of us in each room, I didn't have room for my "reference library". I packed them into boxes.
A few months before, my wife got her new car. So, we kept her old one, and I drive that in the winter, leaving my ragtop in the garage for the winter.
These boxes were in that car for a few months and spring came. So, the car is parked in front of the house for 3 months.
New building is open, so I am setting up to move into my new office. I go to that car to transfer the boxes and take them to work.
They're gone! Stolen.
Unfortunately, 4 of my 5 diplomas/degree certificates were in those boxes. The MBA diploma was still in the envelope at home.
I always imagined the look on the face of the thieves when they opened the boxes and saw books on Oranic Mechanisms, Advanced Thermodynamics, Chemical Kinetics, Polymer Chemistry, Chemical Quantum Theory, various tomes on mathematical analysis techniques, and the business books.
I fear those became fire pit starters.

spread out all over her house and deck. She had a stack of bags and boxes and encouraged everyone to fill up as many as they desired. By the time we had tea and treats, she didn’t have many left unclaimed. I sometimes part with books to give to my local library book sales, but I struggle mightily letting go of any of them. All the best to you in your new adventure.

Get taken to used bookstore for more books or sold at garage sale or given to library.

There are so many places to donate them.
Or even sell them, if you have resell bookstores.
There are places online that will buy them as well.

If all else fails, please donate them to prisons. They need books desperately!