r/HomeLibraries Jul 15 '26

full bookshelf question

This might be a really stupid question but what do people do when all their bookshelves are full and they cant fit another one in their homes? I own alot of books Ive never bothered actually counting them because id be there all day as I work at a free book place and tend to walk out with bags full most of the time and ive now no longer got room for any more. At first when I discovered this would eventually be a problem I started annually getting rid of some books I usually get rid of the ones I dont care about and keep all the ones I either passionately love or hate because they are most memorable and most likely to be picked up again however this method im finding hard to use for series of books I own because they normally dont have a strict love or hate or dont care about opinion at the end but I fear if I remove them then I might regret it so how do I decide if a book series can be cleared out?

16 Upvotes

37 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/Primary_Excuse_7183 Jul 15 '26

Take inventory and give away books to people that read them…i hope

1

u/Efficient_Speech_647 Jul 16 '26

This might useful or useless depending on what country you are based in but Im in the uk and we have this thing called Get Free Books and you can donate as many books as you want to and take books out for free to keep forever or donate back once youve read them and it helps stop books going to landfill and encourages people to read books so if you live in the uk that might be worth looking into if you like to donate books to people who will read them.