On a side note: It looks like I won't be going to Flight of the Conchords. I had class when the tickets went on sale and left a friend in charge of buying them. She didn't. However, I may get to see Dvotchka free on Sunday.
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The piles of ARCs in my three rooms (dorm, mom's, dad's) are getting ever higher. Some of my ARCs I keep. If I like one enough I'll buy an acutal copy of the book and preserve my ARC for future squee-ing. Others I just keep and reread the ARC because I enjoyed the book and want to read it again but I'm cool with the typo-ridden copy and don't need to spend money on another.
As for ones I don't keep . . .
If I thought it was a decent book and don't think her mother will get mad at me for handing off something inappropriate to her child, then I hand it off to one of my ex-boyfriend's younger sisters eventually. This is where several of my middle grade ARCs go. The ones at an even younger level are being held in reserve for my cousin to enter third grade. (At which point she will also receive a box full of the entire Animorphs series, which I will expect back when she's done. My niece'll need to read those too.)
Ones I can bear to part with and are aimed at a little older audience I hand off to friends who I think will enjoy them more than I. And if they don't like the book they can just hand it off to someone else. This is also where the YA Bookswap Ning comes in handy. (Though really, I must get my list updated. I am so disorganized.)
As for ones I completely don't like, those can go on the Bookswap Ning too. But really, I have no clue what to do with them. I'm not a throw books away kind of girl. Those books just lay there in unwanted stacks. (Some of the valuable ones mock my scruples and tell me if I sold them I could fund more of my education.) So this leads up to my title question: what do you do with your ARCs?
You could always use bookmooch for the ones you want to get rid of. I've seen tons of ARCs on bookmooch.
ReplyDeleteThat's usually how i get rid of books I no longer want (not that there are many!)
Alea you neve get rid of books!
ReplyDeleteI get rid of arcs that I don't want on bookmooch. That way I get points to get books that I do want.
Well what did i just send you Sharon? Invisible books :P Yeah most of the books I get rid of are duplicates haha! Sometimes i do though, like on the YA Book Swap Ning I put up my very own copy of The Grift no takers yet though!
ReplyDeleteI've never met anyone who had trouble with Bookmooch, but it seems odd to me to give a *total* stranger my addy.
ReplyDeleteI have like, three ARCs, and I'm planning to hold on to them at the moment. =)
ReplyDeleteIs it weird that I never get rid of books and keep even the ones I dislike? Oddly enough, most of my ARCs are ones I found at Goodwill. Someone in my area must have the major YA hook-up because there's always a couple there.
ReplyDeleteI resale over $300 worth of credit in books per year, meaning about $1200 retail price/approx 7/book = about 171 books.
ReplyDeleteAs is, I'm drowning in books. My collection has been unmanageable since third grade and has just gotten worse since. ^_^ It takes a lot of work to keep me in books. Unfortunately I have no room for those books.
I am so upset that your friend failed you. :(
ReplyDeleteI have been passing my ARCs on to other book reviewers. Except for the few I keep.
Well, she likes FotC even more than me, so I know she tried to buy the tickets. They sold out in about 4 minutes so there wasn't much she could do.
ReplyDeleteI either keep them or give them away. If I really liked it, I tend to keep it. :)
ReplyDeleteCarol
Your ex-boyfriend's younger sisters...
ReplyDeleteOh, that line made me sad. The ex part, I mean.
BOOO about your friend not getting tickets.
ReplyDeleteI've given some away on Bookmooch like others said, some I give to other reviewers or whatever, and others I use in contests. I keep a lot of my books though. I swear when I have my own house, I'm using one room as a library. :)
-Lauren
ARC's I've read I either keep for my shelf or pass on to friends or strangers through Bookcrossing.
ReplyDeleteMy friend tried very hard. She was online and on the phone at twelve trying to get tickets.
ReplyDeleteAnd Beth, don't worry about the ex part. We're still good friends. Oddly, people tell us we should date all the time. Even those who have only met one of us and heard talk about the other. It's very cute.
Sometimes I use them as giveaways but mostly I send boxes of books to family, friends, and old teachers that I think might like them.
ReplyDeleteyou could paperbackswap or bookmooch those books or give them away on your blog once a month...provide a list and draw names.
ReplyDeleteA lot of arc's I just can't part with because I like them so much. For the ones I end up having an extra copy of (either because I buy the actual book when it comes out or for some other reasons)I give to friends who'll I know will like the book. Lately I've been thinking about doing giveaways of them and giving some to my local library or book swap them.
ReplyDeleteI am fortunate enough to co-sponsor a teen book group, so if I get something that I may or may not want to read or I am finished with something and don't want to keep it, I hand it off to them.
ReplyDeleteI usually don't keep galleys at all, because if I like the book enough I will either buy it to support the author or get it from the library. I just don't have space to keep them all. I do wish I'd kept my galley of Twilight, though ;_;