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Have you ever considered who you will leave your book collection to when you're gone? Or maybe a better way to ask the question is who among your family and friends is deserving of receiving your books?
— Nov 05, 2022 11:51AM
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Nov 05, 2022 12:15PM
I have thought about this. And I have no idea. No one in my family really reads. Few of my friends read. I have a massive collection with some collectibles. So I guess they could sell them. But if I survive another 60 or 70 years, then maybe I will donate them to groups that will put them to good use. I don’t think books should sit and go untouched.
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Same as Timothy…no one really reads in my family. I’m quite the oddity in that respect. Plus tastes differ between friends. Maybe this is why I need to have a kid so I can gently groom them into reading and bequeath them my strange library.
ebooks, so I don't have much of an issue - my daughter might read a few but nobody else. Despite me reading to my kids for 15 years every night... *sigh*
I have, but I don't think of it that way. I was brought up to believe, and find it a very congenial belief, that books are for everyone. Anyone who wants any one of my books is ipso facto worthy of it.
I've wondered about this some days ago after a splendid edition of The Magic Mountain had arrived... so far I'm at a loss as to what to do with them after I die as I'm collecting my favourites so I'd want them in good hands. If I would be dying right now, I would send them to a particular someone who isn't in my life anymore but has the good bookish hands, but we are of similar age so if I die of old age, so might they soon die after me or even before me, which makes it problematic. Friends and family are (so far) not an option, here's to hoping some (future) friend pops a kid that reads and that I don't dislike.
