Do You Prefer E-book Readers Or Having The Physical Book?

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Kurben

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Donate them instead of throwing them away. There are many places that would take them off your hands and there may be someone who would enjoy them more than you did.
Of course i would if I found a good place. Right now in Stockholm Second hand book shops and other places often have their shelves so packed that they don't accept more books. They have the same problem with space that i have.
 

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Of course i would if I found a good place. Right now in Stockholm Second hand book shops and other places often have their shelves so packed that they don't accept more books. They have the same problem with space that i have.
It may not be the same for you, but here there are also libraries, hospitals, nursing homes, homeless shelters, jails, even our grocery store has a bin where people can drop off their books and they're available at the front of the store for anyone who wants to take them.
 

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It may not be the same for you, but here there are also libraries, hospitals, nursing homes, homeless shelters, jails, even our grocery store has a bin where people can drop off their books and they're available at the front of the store for anyone who wants to take them.
To me that sounds like paradise. A big problem would be solved. I have asked the library. They don't accept books. I know hospitals don't. Oh, well, i will solve it somehow. But i probably won't throw them out. As i said : It hurts too much. Perhaps i'll have to wait for a flee market thing or an occasion when the church arranges to sell different kinds of stuff to raise money for charity. Then they accept all kinds of things.
 

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I donated books to a nursing home once. As I was taking them out of the bag a few residents came over to see. A few got quite excited when they saw some were King's books....not the usual harlequin romances people usually donated.

You can also check if high schools will accept them. Some will, some won't. Kings books might be banned at some. (Fortunately not banned at my son 'a school. He actually read Clockwork Orange for a school assignment. :grinning: )
 

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I donated books to a nursing home once. As I was taking them out of the bag a few residents came over to see. A few got quite excited when they saw some were King's books....not the usual harlequin romances people usually donated.

You can also check if high schools will accept them. Some will, some won't. Kings books might be banned at some. (Fortunately not banned at my son 'a school. He actually read Clockwork Orange for a school assignment. :grinning: )
i'm afraid i wouldn't even consider donating King. Every book he has written goes in the collection. i'll see what i do.
 

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You can have "hands-on" if you have a tablet reader, but because my eyesight is so compromised (which is why I'm not really supposed to drive anymore) there's no way to increase the size of the writing without also needing to slide your finger back and forth or you won't be able to finish sentences. Yes, I require it so large that it takes up the entire tablet and creates the obligation to slide the writing left to right and back again.
I was born with eyes that bad; they were worse at birth, an operation fixed it but still couldn't give me enough sight to read the microscopic writing of phones and tablets. You almost need an electron microscope to read the online writing produced on my phone.