Throwing a book in the bin !

i had to start using a kindle a few years ago as i need large print, i read about 3 books a week so get them from amazon, some free and some payed for, i look at the reviews and then make my mind up, if i get to about chapter 3 and it is not holding my attention, i just delete, too many books out there for me to waste my time on a rubbish book.

As I won't be buying Dorries' work of political fiction I won't alas have the satisfaction of throwing it in the bin or giving it to the dog for his delectation but I enjoyed John Crace's paraphrase of it in today's Guardian.

M0nica

terribull I have never (to my knowledge) met your DH, but we have something in common. I too chucked Martin Amis' Money in the bin. yes, it was the language, also its lack of any discernable plot.

I have often extolled the works of a 19th century woman writer Mrs Oliphant. When she is good, she is very very good, but when she is bad ........Oh, my God. I recently downloaded one of her books onto my Kindle and a few days later delated it because the plot was so ridiculous and far fetched.

Yeah Terribull I’m with your old man on any books by Martin Amis.
His Dad was a good writer tho a misogynist and a bigot of alarming proportions.
The only book I ever put into the bin was a Stephen King one, called, I think The Outsider as I found it sickening.

Like many others on this thread I find it really difficult to throw books away so I try to give them to a charity shop or free library. Nowadays most of my reading is done on my Kindle and I really hate giving up on a book I have started but Middlemarch is still languishing in the ether and is unlikely ever to be finished. The only books I don't mind deleting unfinished are the ones which are so badly written that it detracts from the content, and there have been a few of those.

I put Spare in the bin.

Harry's book went in the bin.

I couldn’t bin it, since it was a library book, but there was one I wanted to hurl across the room. Turned out at the end, the whole previous 150 odd pages were what shot through the main character’s head - the ‘what might have been’ in the few seconds before she died in a road accident.

Can’t remember the author - possibly Anita Shreve.

To the pps who hated Middlemarch, that’s one of my very favourite classics! I re-read it just recently.

I Afraid I throw pbck books in the bin with no compunction if no daughter wants them. And I join the Martin Amis throwing group via my DH who on holiday binned The Rachel Papers for the same reason as others.

Ooh yes that's YOU all told dogsmother. She did take it as a compliment as she was "in good company" with Martin Amis's Money. I haven't read either of them. I've never thrown any books in the bin but have thrown many into the charity bag, back to the library, at unsuspecting friends..... They always seem to be highly recommended literary prize type of book.

Gala,
Did think Dr. Watson had rather a strong reaction!

Only once. It was a book about the Romans and their amphitheatres and what went on there. I just couldn't read it as it was absolutely horrendous.

Beware dogsmother, Jenny Eclair is lurking on Gransnet. She knows! - Today's Times diary, TMS.

I regularly buy books from charity shops and am surprised how many appear to be brand new and unread. I assume they are given as gifts and are unsuitable for the recipient. I consider myself to have been extremely lucky to have found complete series given away.
So please don't throw your books in the bin....they might be exactly what someone else is looking for.

The only book I threw in the bin was one I bought second hand on line, described as in good condition but it was disgustingly stained, I could have caught the plague I got a refund from Abebooks who told me to dispose of it.

I have destroyed and recycling binned books by animal trainers who advocate cruel training methods. I also binned the first book in the twighlight series because I thought it was not something that should have been written aimed at teenaged girls. My line is when something in the book is not what I consider right...like advocating animal cruelty...or right for the audience it is written for. I wouldn't campaign for the second category to be banned or removed from libraries but if I won something its my choice what I do with it including destroy it. I have also recycled many old bibles. No one wants them and I think its right to return them to the earth rather than to have them sat around unread.

I think there’s a time to read certain books. I enjoyed War and Peace in my youth but I can’t read books like that now.

Mallin, I gave up on War and Peace when I took it out of the school library at age 14, having previously enjoyed Anna Karenina. However, about 5 years ago I decided to have another go, bought a cheap copy from Amazon, and read it all through, but I still didn`t enjoy it. At least I can now say I`ve read it.

Never, I always pass a book on or donate to a charity shop, One man's meat is another man's poison.

Truly one Gran’s meat is another Gran’s poison - I loved Middlemarch so much I stayed up all night reading so I could finish it!

Gundy

Mallin I understand that some people don’t like Kindles. Mine is new generation and faster than my phone - just tap your finger and !voila! to turn a page or to any feature.

I’m addicted to my K. Paperwhite - I adjust the light whenever I need lighter or darker background, I enlarge the font so script is bigger for my glaucoma eyes, so many features to enhance, it’s lightweight and fits in my bag if choose to take along.

Books are sacred to me. I used to be one that said I’ll NEVER give up holding a precious book. I used to give away my books. Well, guess what - I’m a convert!

I read very fast, books are getting more expensive, K books are $10-15 cheaper, I don’t have the room to catalog and display them, plus my physical/medical requirements. I carry my library with me.
10 year Kindle 🩵!
USA Gundy

Oh yes, totally! Don't get me wrong, I love a 'proper' book, but I wouldn't be without my Kindle now. I'm a very fast reader - if I'm on holiday, I can easily read a book a day, so being able to take an entire library of books on holiday with me is such a bonus, especially as we normally just travel with hand luggage. I usually only download books which are on offer and never pay more than a pound or two for them.

USA Gundy
I prefer my old Kindle for ease of use although the new one has more facilities.

I have two Kindles and even the really old one is faster at turning pages than I am!

I still like real books, of course, and would tend to buy ones that I really like, whereas the Kindle has some on offer for 99p or even free that I wouldn't buy at full price.

Mallin I understand that some people don’t like Kindles. Mine is new generation and faster than my phone - just tap your finger and !voila! to turn a page or to any feature.

I’m addicted to my K. Paperwhite - I adjust the light whenever I need lighter or darker background, I enlarge the font so script is bigger for my glaucoma eyes, so many features to enhance, it’s lightweight and fits in my bag if choose to take along.

Books are sacred to me. I used to be one that said I’ll NEVER give up holding a precious book. I used to give away my books. Well, guess what - I’m a convert!

I read very fast, books are getting more expensive, K books are $10-15 cheaper, I don’t have the room to catalog and display them, plus my physical/medical requirements. I carry my library with me.
10 year Kindle 🩵!
USA Gundy

I read quicker than most and find Kindles so slow to change pages that they irritate.
Resulting in the 3 x Kindles I’d received as prezzie, being passed on to a charity shop after gaining dust for a few years. The same charity shop I get a regular carrier bag of books from every few weeks.
I read mainly paperbacks and at the end of each bag of books, there’s usually at least one I found so poorly written that I’ve defaced it by correcting whole chapters of grammatical mistakes and increasingly historical inaccuracies. The old fashioned proof reader seems to be missing.
The only book I can recall binning, is one I’d had for years but couldn’t get through the first two chapters so put aside for a time thinking, oh you’ll read that one day.
War and Peace. I honestly Did read it but found it boringly full of people with outrageously long names. Names which were repeated in full, time after time. It was binned as being unfair to inflict on anyone else.

I started to read Coma at one time and it scared me so much I just threw the book on the floor and couldn’t pick it up to bin it. Couldn’t go near it.