Comments on: Booking Through Thursday

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:45:56 +0000

That *is* a great system! Where do you live again? ;)

By: biblioholic29

biblioholic29 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:45:11 +0000

Ahhh…that’s why I love this store. I’m given 1/4 of the cover price as store credit. They sell all the books for 1/2 the cover price (they have to make a profit after all) but if you have credit you put it toward 1/2 the price of the book, so you’re only paying 1/4 of the price of the book. It’s the best system I’ve ever seen.

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:14:31 +0000

Thank you, bib!!! It feels so good to be back, and every comment notification has brought a huge smile to my face :)

I’m a little jaded about selling to secondhand stores; I don’t know if it’s just because there are so many of them here (which is a beautiful thing; I’m not complaining!), but it seems as though they give pennies on the dollar for what they turn around and sell them for. I’d just as soon wait for someone to mooch it and get a 1:1 ratio :)

By: biblioholic29

biblioholic29 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:58:55 +0000

First of all, I can’t tell you how happy I was to open up my Reader this morning and find that there were new FolioFiles posts! I really missed it, though I totally understood why you weren’t doing it.

Now to your question, I can remember 2 major book purges that happened prior to my joining LT, once when I was about 17 and I gave away all my Babysitters Club and Sweet Valley books to the kid sister of a friend and once right after my separation when I moved across country in my car and had to be selective about what I brought with me. Since joining LT I’ve taken a good look at my library and pulled all the books that I knew I would never read again (or a first time) and sold them to my local used book store. (Yay store credit!) I managed to get rid of a grand total of 43 books, then promptly replaced them with new books…most of which I haven’t read yet.

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:20:39 +0000

Haha, good thing indeed ;) I had about 300 on my owned TBR at last count, and that was over a year ago. I *know* I acquire faster than I read, so the new number is going to be scary…

By: foggidawn

foggidawn — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:04:49 +0000

I’m pretty good about getting rid of books that I don’t think I’ll ever read again. I usually trade them in for credit at a used bookstore. I’m not as good about getting rid of books that I have because I think I might want to read them . . . someday. My TBR piles are truly daunting, and they grow with ever conference (free galleys, how could I resist?) and trip to the bookstore. I estimate that, if I read only books from my own collection that I haven’t read before, and gave up checking out or acquiring new books until I had read everything I own, I would be in reading material for at least a year and a half, probably more like two years. And I read a lot of books every year (200+). And while I was reading, think of all of those exciting new releases I would be missing! Good thing I’ll never actually do it, right?

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:19:31 +0000

Joy, I was pretty lenient on myself – the idea of getting rid of any of them was hard enough! – and it hasn’t stopped me from buying, mooching, and otherwise acquiring more than I released into the wild… :)

By: JLS Hall (Joy's Blog)

JLS Hall (Joy's Blog) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:02:03 +0000

Yes, that does sound painful. I’ve never been able to do much weeding or purging when it comes to my books. They just keep piling up more and more every year.