NEVER surrender the books!

I am not alone in my craziness.  What a laugh reading your blog and realizing yes, I'm not alone.  I just got rid of four, count them, four big boxes of books to a lady who's disabled and cannot afford to buy books so I feel good about what I did.  But I kept three boxes because there are books I just won't get rid of.

I'm so much of a bibliophile that i asked my mom for $6 to actually buy yours and Anna Hackett's Bites

I take mine to the library. I know they are like the greatest gift out there but other people should be able to share them to. Don't get me wrong I have my favorites that will not ever be parted with! They stay hidden in my bedroom so my dh doesn't put them in the other pile. Sigh just thinking aboutu having to take the next load there!

Get rid of books?? Never.  Well - maybe if I replaced it with an ebook.  Or, absolutely could not stand the book. But that doesn't happen very often. Which means I have a LOT of books.  Luckily, DH is a pack rat himself - not of books but of a number of other things.  And as long as I don't nag him about his "Stuff", he doesn't say anything about my book collection.  Except to ask where I plan to put the next bookshelf I'm bringing home.  But even then, he's promised to some day build me a library.

starting to think that my tbr piles r not that big and of course i am realizing that i am not the the only w/ the book buying problem it good to have a support stystem lol.  at least one that beileves the same as me u can take most everything but please do not take my books please.

See it's nice to be surrounded by all the bookaholics. As a matter of fact I'm heading out to the bookstore to search for more.  A certain store didn't have the Supperromances I was looking for but I know the bookstore will.  Don't know about you guys but if I can get them at a discount place fine but if I don't I head out to my bookstore.  I'm glad I did that too with all those books.  She came to pick them up yesterday and she was so excited.  She drove an hour for these books.  Shows you the love people have for reading.

I've decided I'll never be truly satisfied, because I LOVE books and HATE clutter. LOL. It really would've been better to have been born with one trait OR the other.

I have yelled at the TV, too, when watching professional organizers blithely tossing away boxloads of books. The worst was this one Canadian chick who is not only naturally neat but also rail-thin, gorgeous, and the camera spends, like, an HOUR on her designer-shoe/boot-stilleto-clad feet everytime she climbs out of her SUV to take on her clients, who are not thin or gorgeous but who look more like...well...me.

Anyway, she would invariably wrinkle up her cute little button nose when confronted with books. "Eeeewww! These SMELL." The homeowner would hopefully explain that this is just the way old books smell, and actually it's kind of a cozy and comforting smell, and-- but it was no good, the organizer would stare at her like she had a screw loose until the homeowner was shamed into getting rid of them all.

I always wanted those shows to come back three months later. You just knew that there would be crazily-tilting book towers once again dominating every room. The idea that you could "cure" bibliophilism that way! It's like throwing away a junkie's stash, then brushing your hands together in satisfaction: job done! They're clean and sober for good now! Yeah, right.

I'm sorry to hear that!

That seems like surely it would be a sin! I never understand when people get rid of books or think they need to clear them out! Why would someone NOT be comforted by all those wonderful, beautiful choices surrounding them?

I have to laugh, though. My parents got a cat recently and he's spoiled rotten and can get away with anything...until he veers near her books! Then he gets the glare of death! Glad to know I got my love of books honestly....

books and yarn.  Need I say more??????  I would kill (just figuratively ;-))  ) anyone who would try to make me get rid of those two important stashes.  My husband built me some shelves for my yarn.  I was glad and sad at the same time, because then I had to come clean about just how much yarn I really did have!!!  I really to try to keep the book piles under control and I'm doing a fairly good job.  The problem is that my eyes are bigger than my belly as my Mother used to say.  So many books, so little time.  However, the fun is in the collecting.  Happy reading and knitting to me 

Give up my books to a yard sale? I tried that once and it turned out horribly. The first woman that walked up and began rummaging thru the books made my hair curl with the way she just tossed them around. I began to hover. The next young girl picked one up and started to curl the pages and I grabbed the book out of her hand and the third woman, let's just say I think I cured her addiction to yard sales, it wasn't pretty. My husband picked all the books up and took them in the house. He didn't think it was worth the police showing up for the crazy woman stalking the book browsers. He told me NEVER to put books in a yard sale again.

I now take the books that I have no emotional commitment with to my mother and she reads them and they magically disappear from her house. My husband and I own a custom cabinetry business and there are book nooks everywhere in the house (in addition to the 22 dedicated book shelves). I have a sony digital reader and have begun a cd library with downloaded books. Books and Chocolate... put them down and step away, no one has to be hurt if they just step away!