Throwing a book in the bin !

Someone I knew wrote a book and had it self published. It was dreadful and completely unedited. Some bits were disturbing to read (bearing in mind the writer's profession) and the characters names were actually real names of people we knew! Had to go in the bin.

Does anyone know if you can return purchased Kindle books back to the supplier (Amazon). I have read it and really enjoyed the book but never/rarely read a book twice.

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Does anyone know if you can return purchased Kindle books back to the supplier (Amazon). I have read it and really enjoyed the book but never/rarely read a book twice.

I think you can return a Kindle book within seven days of purchase, but it does say that even if it has been partially read, you may not get a refund. And if you return too many books, they may block your account.

I would never throw a book away unless it was in such poor condition that it was not fit to donate to charity. As a lifelong book lover, binning books that are in reasonable condition is heresy to me. Just because you found the content disturbing does not necessarily mean others will feel the same way - we all have different taste in books. I do delete books from my Kindle but I do not look at digital books the same way and, in any event, its not like I can donate them to charity.

I started to read Coma, but it scared me so much I threw it out of my hands and had to get OH to dispose of it!

American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis - once I’d realised what it was about!

I started reading a book by James Herbert, and although I don't mind horror stories by such as Stephen King, the JH had such sick disgusting details of gratuitous violence on the first page I binned it immediately.

I didn't bin, but did launch a Bill Bryson book across the garden while sitting out there reading it during the first summer of lockdown. Nothing wrong with how it was written (apart from the tedious pages of statistics about how many types of trees etc) but it was about the author taking a long backpacking trip through mountains and woods, and the misery and mental torment of being 'imprisoned' at home (we didn't have picturesque places for the daily hours release for exercise), I'm afraid boiled over that particular day.
I did retrieve it from the bushes later!

Growing0ldDisgracefully
I love Bill Bryson books and keep them rather than pass them on. However, I bought A Walk in the Woods and felt the same about it, did finish it, but can't remember what I did with it afterwards.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.