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Or do you simply not get rid of books? At all? (This would have described me for most of my life, by the way.)
And–when you DO weed out books from your collection (assuming thatyou do) …what do you do with them? Throw them away (gasp)? Donate themto a charity or used bookstore? SELL them to a used bookstore? Tradethem on Paperback Book Swap or some other exchange program?

Get rid of books? I don't understand.
I am a pro at acquiring books. Letting go is not my forte. I am far more likely to own multiple copies then to get rid of a book. My habit of buying The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galexy books when I come upon them is getting silly. But. I. Can't. Stop. For ten cents or a quarter, I love to have a spare to lend.
A good book stays in almost all cases. Two questions: would I read it again? Or would I pass it to someone to read?
If in doubt, I keep. For example, I doubt I'll ever read The Va Vinci Code or Angels and Demons again. I enjoyed the ride, but have no desire for a return trip. Still, I keep them. They had such an impact on popular culture, I feel they are important.
I think I do this because my mother has books from the seventies and eighties that were smash bestsellers in their day, but virtually unheard of by the time I was in high school. I wouldn't have discovered them if they weren't in the house.
When a book does not qualify for the collection, it is hard to find an acceptable way to get rid of a book bad enough to give up.
It goes without saying, throwing a book in the trash is not acceptable. I have had a Goodwill bag. I have given okay but not awesome books to friends and coworkers. I looked into BookCrossing where you "tag and release" books. I just couldn't do it. Even though you can report to the site when you are setting a book down in a public place so those signed up for alerts can try to find it, I am not comfortable with leaving a book where it will likely be tossed in the trash. As exciting as it would be to have someone report a book found, I'm too attached to books to risk the waste. I know they are just objects, but I cannot bare to treat a book like used water filters to be disposed of with no further thought.
My new favorite way to get rid of my unloved books is PaperBackSwap. I have mailed nine and ordered eleven. When you sign up and your first ten books, they issue two points. Points sell for $3.75 each or free with each book you mail. All I have invested is postage.
It is the perfect solution. I get to send books I don't care about to people who will care about them, then order books I want. All for the price of postage. What could be better?

I was wanting to try a certain author and wished I knew someone who had read her works so I could get a recommendation when it occurred to me that having a “YOU ask the question” Booking Through Thursday might be fun. Each participant could ask a question they’ve wanted to discuss with other readers. Perhaps, like me, you’d like a recommendation of a certain author’s best work, or perhaps you LOVE a certain genre or series but no one else you know does and you’d just like to discuss it with someone. Or perhaps you want to try a new genre and would like recommendations from seasoned readers.
It would help if everyone put some idea of the question or topic in their response comment here rather than just saying, “My post is up” so that those who can’t get around to everyone can see what the topics are and get to those which most interest them.

