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Thalion
storyteller
Username: Thalion
Post Number: 781
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 9:50 am: |     |
I've heard of this in the past, but came across it again on a web search today - an international free library of 'books who travel'.
Learn more at http://srl.bookcrossing.com/home
What a great way to clear out your bookshelf without throwing books away (something I just can't do). Did anyone come across any bookcrossings yet? I did a search on Auel and found quite a few around.
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they pass by - Douglas Adams |
Scott
storyteller
Username: Scott
Post Number: 302
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 5:48 am: | |
I have sent a few here and there but never from my bookshelf - yikes that's a sacred place! Ok, a few from there - but why would you ever want to get rid of a book?
Great idea though - thanks for the site! Anyone want to send me a copy of book 6? 
Scott
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Ces gens, Jondalar, ils sourient. Ils me sourient. - Ayla |
Da_bear
storyteller
Username: Da_bear
Post Number: 312
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 12:29 pm: | |
Creb might, I'm sure he is finished with book 9 by now.
We just donate our excess books to the library. But, like Scott, I just cannot stop getting more, and I cannot bear to part with hardly any. Books are probably our biggest "off budget" expense".
da bear, unbearable
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. |
Rhi
storyteller
Username: Rhi
Post Number: 137
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Friday, April 23, 2004 - 4:25 am: | |
O-holi-bamah, I can't get rid of books. There is only one book in my collection I would be willingly rid of (a terrible sequel to The Secret Garden), and even though I don't think I'll ever read it again, I don't know if I can part with it.
Books are my passion, my compulsion, my obsession, my addiction. There is nothing else like them. I buy them when I can't afford them, which I wouldn't do for anything else. I clip coupons for food, so that I can afford a new book.
BUT, if I were the type who could easily give away, or throw away, books, I'd get involved with one of the giveaway sites. (I'm still not over the fact that I gave my 10 year old cousin 5 of my books, that I have copies of, because she's just as big a bookworm as I am. Two of those books were given to me by her grandmother when I was her age, and passing down heirlooms feels good, but THEY WERE BOOKS!)
Mostly Harmless |
Annie
storyteller
Username: Annie
Post Number: 774
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Friday, April 23, 2004 - 8:50 am: | |
Same here - my library's sacred!  However, I occasionally wind up with duplicate copies of a book, and then I inflict one of the copies on a friend (attempting to match up books with friends so that the friends will still speak to me afterwards, and usually getting away with it ).
Perhaps those of you who live in civilized countries can risk just leaving a book alone out in the wild,  but I couldn't possibly do that to a book here; it would most likely end up in a trash bin. 
-- Anyone want to send me a copy of book 6? --
Sure, Scott... you won't mind if it's book 6 of some other series, right?  |
Thalion
storyteller
Username: Thalion
Post Number: 784
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Friday, April 23, 2004 - 12:11 pm: | |
I may just be a little less obsessed than you guys, LOL. I would never part with books I like - but there are a few paperbacks I bought because the summary on the cover sounded interesting - and then I was bored or disliked the book. Trying to reread some years later sometimes helps, but I have a few I just find so absolutely useless... I'll send those on the way.
Apart from that, i have many german translations of American or English authors, and continuously am changing over to the originals. If I have the original, why keep the often bad translation? They can go as well...
Now if I had settled down already and weren't always on the move, I might think differently..
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they pass by - Douglas Adams |
Matt
storyteller
Username: Matt
Post Number: 51
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Friday, April 23, 2004 - 12:29 pm: | |
I suppose that I could part with my burgeoning Russian lit collection...right after I give away my left leg!
"Gentlemen! You can't fight in here, this is the War Room!" - from Dr. Strangelove |
Pine
storyteller
Username: Pine
Post Number: 422
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Friday, April 23, 2004 - 6:28 pm: | |
But without the leg, you would be more sedentary then ever, and need even more books...
Annie, try Beverly Books, in Hadar (they used to be on Haneviim, I believe). It's a used book store that deals with books in English and other non-Hebrew languages. And there used to be a store on Beit-Hakranot where my grandmother used to get books in Hungarian - they may know what to do with duplicates.
Before we left Israel we tried to find homes for our less favorite books. The ones in Hebrew were easy, there are lots of dealers that would take anything. The ones in English were more difficult - I think we ended up leaving them at the one foreign language used-book dealership in Rehovot.
Of the rest - some we packed and mailed over here, the rest we packed and left in my MIL's loft. Since then we have tried to arrange their mailing, but it never came about. I guess one day we'll have to get over there and do it ourselves. But we have been able to get an impressive collection over the last few years anyway, thanks to eBay, estate sales and used book stores. |
Miisa
storyteller
Username: Miisa
Post Number: 303
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Friday, April 23, 2004 - 8:38 pm: | |
My sister has a coffee shop in Ireland and has a "book exchange" shelf there for people to help themselves from. But being a touristy destination, she usually ends up with more books at the end of the day. People bought books to read on the trip and just leave them there.
IIRC there is also no library on the island, so her used books shelf doubles as that. Bring one, take one. |
Annie
storyteller
Username: Annie
Post Number: 777
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Friday, April 23, 2004 - 9:05 pm: | |
Pine, Beverly's Books used to be in Beit-Hakranot, next to Gondos (the Hungarian bookstore), at least when I knew her.  I was familiar with both, but Beverly's closed down years ago - she said she was going online instead of keeping shop, but I didn't have net access then, so I lost track of her.  There is also a large used books store on Hechalutz. I did sell some books to the Hechalutz store - the ones I didn't like. The books I pass on to friends are copies of books I like - my usual 'subtle' way of attempting to recruit fellow fans for my favorites - the danger being mostly that my opinion of what constitutes a good book may not coincide with theirs. |
Annie
storyteller
Username: Annie
Post Number: 778
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Friday, April 23, 2004 - 9:15 pm: | |
Miisa, that sounds like a great arrangement! |
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