[Rupert Avery]

I agree 100% with all of you.
I have never even lent out a book before only because if any thing happened to it I would be devasted.I have never resold a book beause they have so much ......arhhhhhhhh I can not explain,they are just a part of me and I am a part of them.
I love my books.

[Barbarossa]

I would never sell or throw away a bookm butr i borrow them out freely, if i would get back too many at once my shelves would burst.
I accept that some will be damaged or don't come back, fortunatly it doesn't happen often, and it's worth it, after all i have a lot more people i can talk with about my books.

[sueVee]

I am afraid, although I love my books I literally do not have the space to keep them. So I loan them out, give them away, or donate them to prisons (I have found out that the budget for libraries in prisons is a very low priority.) My books are my friends but I enjoy sharing. Even so, right now I have boxes and bags of books that I need to circulate. It is very hard to start the process, especially with my hardbacks.

[MajicK]

I absent-mindedly left my copy of The Hobbit lying around the house, only to discover it this morning...on the floor...with the front cover bent in half!!! and some more !!!! for good measure. oh, whatever shall i do? http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/frown.gif

[tamlyn]

Tell it of for trying to draw attention to itself. (either that or celebrate)

[Xayn]

call a para-psychologist in, and get rid of that poltergeist ASAP

[Cadfael]

Find the person responsible and give them fifty lashes of the cat'o'nine tails, but try not to get angry...

... and give yourself ten lashes for leaving it there http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/smile.gif

A Book Lover

[lemming]

USED PAPERBACKS

They fill your room, drift away again,
heedless of time and always unseasonal.
You find them for a quarter, for half-price;
the faded covers come free, and the torn corners.

Other hands have done what breaking there is to do.
Their sharpness has gone, these are books that know
a little about being held; the cracks in their spines
show their willingness to be opened again.

Given worlds enough, they pile up like time,
many voices murmuring together as they settle.
The hands that have held them warm the room.
They are dark stones after sunset, old loves
dimly remembered in their torn corners.

They can teach you things sometimes,
for a quarter, for half-price. The best ones
are lined with time and heavy with good paper,
make you smile at stories that might have brought
tears, once, when told by something new.

[lemming]

(All right... so that wasn't spontaneous... but that's what I have to say about old books, anyway.)

[Alucard]

I can't say that I worry too much about the condition of my books partly because I am very free about lending them out. Many people that I am friends with don't read for recreation, they always relate reading to schoolwork and therefore are not that fond of it.
So I've taken it upon myself as a little mission to show people that reading can actually be a very enjoyable, preferable even to movies and the infamous television.
In turn, I've turned many people that I know onto reading and now they're asking me if I have anything good that they haven't read yet. It feels good opening people's eyes to the world of reading.
So if I have to pay for it by some bent corners and scuff marks, I consider it a worthy trade off.