Cookery books and other books - are you keeping them ?

No Maybe I don’t think many children of today will be ‘book people’ like our generation I have seven adult grandkids four have been to University and all seven have very good jobs. None are book readers, although they all had many books as children
I doubt any of them own or buy books, everything is done online.

One of my grandchildren is a real bookworm. She buys them new, even though I urge her to look in the Op shops. She is at uni studying science but reads more English lit types of books. Have to say she is the only one out of all of them.
I love browsing secondhand bookshops and when we travel into country towns I head there first! Wonderful places and still quite popular here.

I love my cookery books but rarely use more than i or two recipes from each book.

I too rip out favourue recipes and put them in plastic folders but then I can't bear to throw the rest of the book away.

I get lots of recipes on line now but still print them off oif at all possible.

I filled up my grannie trolley and gave a stack to a guy who is crazy about baking.
Now I'm looking at the other cookery books which I don't open from one year to the next .

I put books I don't need in the paper recycling box for collection.

Grantanow

I put books I don't need in the paper recycling box for collection.

Not permitted in our paper recycling collection.

Tells you to black bin or charity shop them.

Sell them on Vinted 🙂

Grantanow

I put books I don't need in the paper recycling box for collection.

How sad 😔

If you have any really good looking old books do get them valued before giving them away. My mother had a wonderful set of leather bound libretti of Wagner's Ring Cycle. A limited edition, hand made paper and beautiful Arthur Rackham illustrations. She always told me that no one would want them because they were written in Flemish. After she died I showed them to an auctioneer and told him I knew they were worthless. He looked at me as if I was insane and said "No one's going to buy them to read! They will want the pictures!" They sold for £450 which would have amazed my mother.