Bookcases

[lankeela]

Seeing all the videos of people from home with their bookcases in the background makes me wonder how many people have got a full bookcase and when was the last time you actively read any of the books on them? I use mine a lot for reference for dog shows but very rarely actually take a book down to read one. I wonder if some of them are ever even touched?

[aelmpvw]

my reference books haven't been touched since i discovered google

[mallyh]

my computer is next to a book shelf full of reference books which I use a lot some of them are really well thumbed

[woofgang]

I have got (I think) 13 bookcases in my house....not huge ones. Many are storage for first editions or signed books or books I will never get again, none valuable, some are reference books and cookery books but quite a lot are books that I take out and read. They are my daytime reading though because its easier to use a Kindle at night. I do have a spce problem so try to keep my purchasing down to kindle now and a few years ago I replaced a lot of my not special paper editions of favourite novels (Sayers, Allingham, Tey, Heyer et al.) with Kindle editions. I could still easily have a bookcase background to my video without furniture re arranging.

[TonyV]

Apart from some Harry Potter books our shelves are filled with cooking books.

[lankeela]

For years my dad subscribed to Reader's Digest yet never read one of them and when he died they were all binned. Why do we keep books that we have read - do people read them again? I can understand reference books or say cookery books but fiction surely once you have read them you know what happens so why read them again?

[SlackAlice]

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[MargoTester]

The National Trust take second-hand books to re-sell if you have some you want to get rid of.

[woofgang]

I love to revisit a well loved book. Its great to appreciate the quality of the writing as well as the story. I have usually got two or three fiction books on the go at any one time and at least one of those will be a re read.

[TonyV]

I'll be using our local library when it reopens.

[woofgang]

SlackAlice, the problem with that kind of fake is that it would be noticed if two people in TV had the same wall!

[Gill1941]

I have lots of books and always prefer to read a proper book.
I have a Kindle Fire but rarely use it for book reading.
Would never bin a book. Always take any I have finished with to a charity shop.

[woofgang]

the charity shops round here are choosy in what they will take...only new or nearly new.

[Palustris]

I have 12 metres of book shelves, all Gardening and Flower books. I use them all the time.

[pastafreak]

I have books scattered around...in a pine cupboard in the spare bedroom, small piles on tables, in the bottom half of an oak dresser, and most are in one of those Ikea cube type units. It's very deep, so books are stored double depth. About 1/4 each, cookery and food history, history, novels, and home decoration/indoor plant care/art and design. Most fiction is duplicated on my kindle...and I'm often trying to stick with reading one them.

[Mozz71]

Since I got an Audible account, my reading activities have dwindled.

[pastafreak]

Oh...and there's about 8 bags of books in the spare room for when the charity shops are able to collect again.

[cashier]

I've a load waiting to go to a charity shop when they reopen. Can't wait for my library to open up again.

[Apc2604]

Our house is full off books. Only the bathroom and shower room have no shelves. I now dont read as much as I did. OH always has his head in a book. I am not allowed to get rid of books!

[Apc2604]

A bit like Pasta really, the books are not just on shelves. Sitting here with a coffee table in front of me on which are 7 books in various stages of being read or re-read. In our study there are boxes of books.

[allenlondon]

Books. Printing has liberated so many over the centuries it seems sacriligeous to throw books away.

Most of the charities that take books for the third world are extremely pickey about the type of books they’ll accept. And yet even here in the UK 60+ years ago I’d have devoured any book, fiction or non, and I’m sure that in the poorest parts of the world children (and adults) would rather have books a-plenty than none.

A crying shame.