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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Throw away (almost) new books?
Rather wasteful...
He used to buy, read, donate.
Stockpiling was not his thing.
Donating meant the library would either put them into circulation or sell them, but either way they'd get reread.
Both my (non-price sensitive) friend and my (price sensitive) cousin were getting their books back into circulation for others to read. I find no fault with either. Neither finds the cost of a reader an issue (and they come from very different worlds--my cousin, a suburban housewife with two kids and the friend, a single, mover-shaker who routinely dines with congressmen and governors in multiple states--yet both are very into SF&F. 
As I said, it takes all kinds...
...yet all kinds find value in the same things, though not for the same reasons.
To a lot of prople a book is just a (hopefully) good read, not an object of veneration or special snowflake and neither labels nor provenance worry them overmuch. |
I agree it is quite wasteful. Which is why I was surprised to hear a "solution" that involved buying the digital version, which is just as wastefully "thrown away" in the sense that only the original purchaser can read it, and that person has the intent never to read it again.
If I didn't reread books, I would make sure to use a format that allowed me to pass them on.