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Finding joy finishing one 📖 at a time. Reads by @bowie Let's talk books & more books!

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Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 2:33

Do you keep or sell your books?

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And that does give me some comfort, but it made me wonder if you're someone who tends to hoard books like I do, or if maybe after you read them, it's really easy for you to immediately sell them or give them away to friends. Or maybe you're somewhere in between

It's so hard to say goodbye 📚

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Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 4:21
I think for me, I would probably just, I don't know, give it to someone who would love it as much as I loved the book, that would be me. I mean, selling is always good. Yeah. I mean, the thing with getting books back, books that you will love back on your shelf for me where I am right now, as you know, reviewing with publishers and things like that, I have no doubt that I'll get books
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Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 2:49
So I took a batch to half price books yesterday and sold them and I feel really good about that. And then I have a whole pile that I'm sending to a friend right now and a couple of others that I'm going to be giving to family members who I think might enjoy them. So it feels really good just to share books and even selling them at half price
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Ramya V
@Ramya · 1:29
But if I did decide to undertake this address task of clearing out my bookshelves, I'll probably consider donating it to some library or probably putting them all away in a bag or another shelf or something and hand it over to younger cousins or family people in the family who I know for a fact, would enjoy reading these books, or maybe friends as well, who would really take care of these books?
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Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 3:30

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But, you know, I really like the idea of wishing the book well and donating it to your cousin friends, people, you know, would appreciate it. People, you know, would read it. And I think that's a great, great, great feeling I really miss not miss. I mean, I missed memes, I had it. But I wish we had a little free library in my neighborhood because that would be the absolute best thing ever for my books
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