Giving Batman away

[Dream]

Not sure why I'm posting this but earlier today I did something I thought I'd never do. I donated a brand new book to the library. I had a spare Batman Begins Official Guide laying around my room so I thought I might as well give it away. My one good deed for the community this year.

Anyone else here donated a book to the library before?

 

[Lookingglassman]

I donated some books a long time ago.

 

[DanTheGrey]

Every couple of years I end up donating a couple of dozen books. Here there some silliness that if you give money, it could actually harm their budget and it goes into the system as a whole across the city. When you donate books, they are donated specifically to your branch and doesn't impact their budgets at all.

It's a strange system, but I figure that the branch (which is still my local one now that I've grown up) that kept me reading should get my books when I'm done with them.

 

[Dream]

Here there some silliness that if you give money, it could actually harm their budget and it goes into the system as a whole across the city. When you donate books, they are donated specifically to your branch and doesn't impact their budgets at all.

That's interesting.

I donated because I saw some girl donate a few kids books a few weeks ago. I didn't know the public could do that. The woman that took my book only said the book was nice. I could have sold it but that would have been too much of a hassle for me. I might as well give it to my branch so other Batman fans can check out the book.

 

[JimCasy]

I haven't, but I bought an audio book a while ago that I know I'm never going to listen to again (it's called Lost & Found, just got it cause it was cheap and I wanted something to listen to while driving) and I'm going to bring it with me next time I go to the library, which should be Monday. I'm almost done listening to The Fellowship of the Ring and need to pick up The Two Towers.

 

[Crusher Disciple]

Man, I would've taken it. It would've been better than donating it to a stinky old library.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I keep all my books. But I did give a copy of the first two books I published to the Library I used to go to as a kid. And I've been buying them a subscription to Air & Space for a few years (also my old High School).

 

[Australis]

My personal library is pretty select, I usually only have books that I really, really want. Every now and then some other books creep in. If they're in good condition, I'll pass them on to my local library - they have so many books that I haven't had to buy, or research material that'd cost me an arm and a leg, I don't mind giving back from what I can spare.

 

[shrantastic]

My personal library is pretty select, I usually only have books that I really, really want. Every now and then some other books creep in. If they're in good condition, I'll pass them on to my local library - they have so many books that I haven't had to buy, or research material that'd cost me an arm and a leg, I don't mind giving back from what I can spare.

Hear, hear! I really pared my book collection down when I moved (n.b. moving a bunch of books sucks!). As my father says "having a lot of books doesn't make you smart".

I used to work in a museum library, and donated books either got integrated into the collection, or sold at library book sales. Either way, the library (and the public) benefit.

 

[wew]

Over the course of several years, I've given several hundred books away, the responses from libraries varies from library to libray. The best response, was the youth librarian in one city library. I was getting ready to move and had about 2000 comic books boxed and bagged, I didn't want anymore, so I went to the library, and offered them to the library. The library manager didn't want them but said she would pass the message to the youth librarian. About an hour later got a call, the youth librarian told me her budget for young adult periodicals, and comics had been slashed, she would gladly accepte them and she wrote a nice letter thanking me.

Gave away over a hundred Star Trek novels to a different library, was surprised to seem them priced at a dime at their library sale. Another professor at my college scooped them all up.

 

[barnaclelapse]

I used to donate stuff, but I haven't been to a library in so long.

I've just gotten used to buying used books online, I suppose.

I should donate something. Lord knows there's enough damn children's books around here.