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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Sunday, December 27, 2009 - 10:01 am
You've got to have a two-story house big enough (with enough books!), but I love this.

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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Sunday, December 27, 2009 - 10:08 am
I love it too, but I would hate to be the one to have to dust them!
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Chewpito
Member
01-04-2004
| Sunday, December 27, 2009 - 10:09 am
That would be perfect for Mamie!! wonder how handy her husband is with carpentry....LOL
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, December 27, 2009 - 2:01 pm
LOL I was thinking the same thing! My husband is not a handyman so I'll have to stick with the 4 bookcases that I have bought.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, December 27, 2009 - 2:17 pm
LOL Color!! I almost brought over that same picture.. pretty amazing!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, December 27, 2009 - 2:19 pm
Of course now I store books on the computer and on my Kindles, but I have bookcases.. mostly up over the garage where I cannot go at the moment.. and tons in boxes and stacks and piles down here and in my bedroom and I've released quite a few through bookcrossing as well. Before I moved, I had a king sized waterbed frame and since the mattress had died and I had moved to the guest bedroom to sleep, I filled that frame with books.. so I had a horizontal bookcase.. just covered it with quilt and it still looked like a bed. But I gave away the frame when I moved.. didn't have that gigantic master bedroom here anyway.
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Sunday, December 27, 2009 - 2:48 pm
I store ours on closet shelves. (We have one big closet that is all books on the shelves. The floor has a dresser storing all the towels. The litter box sits next to the dresser.) The kids have bookcases. We don't have a lot of books anymore. I've given away about 40 boxes of kids books over the years, plus we sold some in a yard sale. When the kids were little, I wished for a carpeted room with no furniture, just books lining the walls and all the stuffed animals on the floor. Never got it, but that was my plan if we'd won the lottery!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, December 27, 2009 - 5:04 pm
I do have about 20 bags of books stored away to sell.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Sunday, December 27, 2009 - 7:17 pm
We have 8-foot shelves on both sides of our fireplace, I've got 3 HUGE bookshelves at school, and then I've got about 6 huge plastic tubs filled with books. I donated at least 10 tubs of books last year, and now I tend to order on Kindle. The only exceptions are a couple of series (Gabaldon's Outlander and Greeley's Irish Gold). Some day our office will have floor to ceiling book shelves on two and a half walls, but until then, in tubs they reside.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Monday, December 28, 2009 - 3:05 am
I have 9 feet of bookshelves (3 of them I use for DVDs) where most people don't. I am tall. I put bookshelves over three doorways and pass-through into kitchen (DVDs). I don't know why, but I didn't put a shelf over door into the bathroom. I could use another 2 feet of shelves there. I have a wall of shelves and drawers too. More than just books stores on those shelves. Now I do have too many books and am having trouble deciding on books to purge. And I have $118 in Borders gift cards!!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, December 28, 2009 - 3:28 am
After looking at many houses, the selling point for me with this one was the built in book cases in the living room on one wall. Besides that, there's two bookcases in the den filled up, and each of the kids has their own. I also have a couple big plastic bins filled with books and some suitcases. Ever so often, we go through the kids bookcases in their rooms and the one they have in the den and box up books they've outgrown. A few go to younger cousins (though the cousins have almost as many as they have) and the rest are donated to one of the kids old teachers whose kids are in the age group the books are from. When oldest niece was in 1st grade, literally half the teachers in the school quit over some issues the school was having. They had to scramble to get new teachers in those classes and nieces new teacher was straight out of school. He came in to a class with no books (reading, not school books) cuz the old teacher had taken hers and he didn't have any. At the time, sis and bil were in the process of moving middle (at the time baby) niece into her new bedroom and packing up some of oldest nieces stuff and I'd gone through the kids books and we were able to donate several boxes to him. He was so happy to have them and it made me realize that even though the kidlets can go to the school library to get books, its not the same as having them in class. So now anytime I go through books, I either contact one of my kidlets old teachers or nieces and ask if they need them or if they know a teacher in that age group who does. If they do, they get them, if not, I drop the box off at the kids old elementary school library.
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Monday, December 28, 2009 - 10:27 am
I donated all of my books except for about 10 that I kept for sentimental reasons. I read the book and then pass it on.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Monday, December 28, 2009 - 2:53 pm
Most of my books are more like coffee table kinda thing. I like books that have photos and/or illustrations. These days a book that is strictly for reading, I will buy e-book version for my Kindle.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Sunday, January 03, 2010 - 1:54 pm
I don't buy books....I am a library girl. But I am thrilled to have a friend that does buy them... and those that she decides not to keep she passes on to me! I try to pass them on when I finish reading them. Our "friends of the library" group has an ongoing book sale from donations...I love that when I donate to them it not only passes the books on, but raises money for the library to buy more!
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Sunday, January 03, 2010 - 6:16 pm
I have started holding onto just a hand full of sentimental books and donating the rest to my Cancer Center for their waiting rooms.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Sunday, January 03, 2010 - 8:07 pm
I used to have five bookcases, with five shelves full of books in alpha order by author! When I moved to WC, I had 50 boxes of books,LOL. About two years before I bought my condo I started to give away my books, I took the time to decide which authors I would re-read, and I only kept those books. Now I have two bookcases with 5 shelves but they are not full, and I have six small shelves that are built in around my fireplace, 4 of them contain some books. I give my books away at the office or to goodwill for those books that I have bought and read but don't meet the re-read author rule. Oh, I forgot, I have a bookcase in the bedroom/five shelves, only 1 has books.
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Rvon
Member
12-11-2003
| Wednesday, January 06, 2010 - 4:37 pm
For years I kept all of the books I bought and read, but just this past weekend I decided to go through them all. I kept all of the books I have not read and some that were very sentimental to me. I was going to give them to my library or Goodwill but my oldest son took them all to Half Price Books. I was not so optimistic to think they would take them all -- I thought many would be duplicates that they did not need. Silly me. They took every single one of them and I am $115 richer!!
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Lyn
Member
08-07-2002
| Wednesday, February 03, 2010 - 11:08 pm
Hubby and I made some floor to ceiling bookshelves 15 yrs ago to store our collection of keepers. The books that were most important to us are there...the rest I gave to the kids a few years ago Anything I buy from now on goes on my brand-spanking-new Kindle! (Hmmm no Kindle smilie in our collection)
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Thursday, February 04, 2010 - 5:27 pm
Our place is peppered with bookshelves! One in the dining-room, 2 in a hallway, and 3 in the solarium. And we just brought back a small one from Mom's place. So I guess that's 6 1/2.
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Thursday, February 04, 2010 - 5:38 pm
I sell mine to Powell's in Portland. Not much storage at my place.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Friday, February 05, 2010 - 3:57 pm
I store my books at the library. My DD lives with me and is a librarian so I leave all the fetching and carrying to her.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Saturday, February 06, 2010 - 2:18 am
LOL OG!!! I sold 17 bags full of books a while back and made about 250 bucks on them. It's almost time to do it again.
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Deanofwords
Member
09-13-2005
| Sunday, February 28, 2010 - 6:25 pm
Library instead of bookstores then NO books to store.Good idea,eh?
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Rosem4243
Member
06-27-2005
| Sunday, February 28, 2010 - 6:42 pm
Library! For years. I never buy books because once I've read them, I don't need them anymore. I just love the library. Even though it's 'socialist'. LOL!

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Wavewatcher
Member
09-09-2006
| Monday, September 06, 2010 - 8:51 am
Love the library, too! It is great to be able to reserve and renew books online or to even get books from other libraries. For me this is usually a book that I am not necessarily interested in owning. Still have book shelves on places like stair case landings, and lining the walls of a spare room, in a bedroom. Don't own as many as I used to, though. Technology is going to take over...kindle... or something along that line.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - 11:42 pm
I have gazillions of books in my bonus room.. and haven't been able to get in up there for 2-3 years.. piles in the living room to go up there or bookcross and a bunch in the bedroom. And I've bought only 2-3 books since I got my first kindle. I have something like 1200 books for kindle.
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Wavewatcher
Member
09-09-2006
| Wednesday, September 08, 2010 - 10:28 am
why do we save all of these books? I think nothing of packing up clothes and other items that I haven't used in a while or won't ever use in the future. Why not the same for books that we like to put on shelves or in boxes? I know people who are minimalists and it is starting to look like an attractive lifestyle...
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Thursday, September 09, 2010 - 6:43 pm
I buy my books at the Goodwill- and then I store them in plastic tubs - several of my books come out in series - so I have to save them -
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, September 09, 2010 - 7:25 pm
Libraries are great but they don't seem to range as wide as my tastes lead me.. I also believe that books need to be read by multiple people so I book cross (www.bookcrossing.com) and participate in bookrings and bookrays where a book travels the world and each reader journals and then mails the book on. I've mailed books all over the US, Canada, to England, Ireland, Taiwan and other places..
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Wavewatcher
Member
09-09-2006
| Thursday, September 09, 2010 - 10:54 pm
Wow! That's great, Sea. Thanks for the interesting link. I was not aware of this at all.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, September 10, 2010 - 12:00 am
So many books...so little space, lol. I keep my books because like Reader, many of them are part of a series with more coming. And I keep my favorites cuz I'll read them every couple years. These days I also have Darren and Caleb going reading through my books and I loan them out to a friend or two and my sister. I always have a book with me and I'm a fast reader, can't afford to buy as many books as I could read, lol! So have to reread. My favorites are on the built in bookcases in the living room. Also have a couple bookcases in the den. And I have a few plastic bins with lids in the garage that just won't fit in the house. And right now I have a stack of six paperbacks sitting on the wood burning stove cuz I haven't decided where the heck I'm going to put them yet, lol.
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Friday, September 10, 2010 - 7:51 am
Sea thanks for that link (and reminder) I take a bunch of books to our train station - there is a book exchange (honor system) there - I'll never forget the one time I went to chicago but forgot to bring a book, and low and behold - a bunch of books just sitting there for the taking!! I also give books to my sil - I spend a lot of time at garage sales, but I have to start taking away as many books as I bring in!! I've gotten better, but I can still do more!!
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Scubalass
Member
07-01-2004
| Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - 8:34 pm
I have only just found this thread! Wow, I love books, I keep all my favourite books in my study, they are precious to me and I have collected them over the years so I have a lot! They are displayed on wall to wall book shelves and are given lots of tender loving care. Those books that I do not want to keep are given to other people who want to read them. I also love to listen to books on my Ipod, so I also have a collection of audio books that are stored on their own hard drive. I just love all things books, I could live in a bookstore!
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Kappy
Member
06-28-2002
| Saturday, December 11, 2010 - 9:35 pm
Starting about 8 years ago, I began giving all my finished books to Salvation Army. Every once in a while, I will try trading them in at the used bookstore but they almost never want or need what I read. I'm just too mainstream, sigh.
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