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In my city (town, really), the library started to put surplus books in the train station to take and keep. This lasted until their book collection was severely culled by Hurricane Sandy.
Once we got back home, we sorted through our personal book-mountain and brought hundreds to the station, a few bag-fulls at a time*. Not the same as donating to charity, but pretty much all of them were scarfed up. This included, for those interested, obsolete computer books and chemistry and physics books from coursed I taught (my own books, naturally, were kept). Very few lasted more than a few days.
Any way you can do this sort of thing? It could even start a trend.
* 10-20 books/bag
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I am not a fan of electronic books. The main reason why I like reading is the book itself (in paper fold).
watching electronic screen at work, and also at relaxation? I am sorry 
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I wasn't...but then I got a tablet.
And I can carry 400 odd books with me at all times, on something that fits in my jacket pocket. And doesn't try to take over the house in the way that print does! 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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So now the topic is paper book or electronic ones? 
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You should have checked the local high schools. A few years back I donated 1500 books to the local high school and was able to declare the donation on my taxes. A win for the high school and a win for me!
Now, this was before ebooks really kicked in so things may be different now.
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Do you work or sleep sometimes ? I am really getting concerned...
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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The average novel takes a couple of hours to read, nothing much. I can do that while Herself watches drivel on TV in the evening without upsetting her... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Poor book authors, they spend months and years writing a novel.
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It's a pain - I have to wait a year for the sequel... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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You have my sincere sympathies, while I would like to be able to speed read the tech books I like my entertainment slow and comfortable.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I love novels, read over 30 last year, and re-read some. I am on my 17th this year. Give a detective story, I will finish it in a day. I can't go a week without reading fiction. My little addiction.
I remain joe!
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Have you tried watching a movie of the book after? what is your opinion?
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I did both, watch first, and reading first; and prefers the book in both instances; that's where I feel the most adrenaline. Movies kills the suspense quickly.
I remain joe!
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The other worry is of the time it takes to read the book!
Movie is fast way of getting that story done.
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The beauty of the book lies in this IMHO. You experience the whole set up in the story along for few days, weeks, months. But movie is just a matter of hours SOMETIMES you dont even remember what the movie is all about (after few days) because it gets in quick and gets out quick of your mind.
But I agree you can watch a movie many times but not with the same intense a book is re-read mostly due to time constraints.
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Isn't that more rewarding that movie gets complete early?
Who watches all movie to remember all the time?
On the other hand, you could be stuck with a book untill it finishes so that you can move to the next one your frenids are strongly recommending you to watch.
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The Lee Childs books are not a good reference point for movies precisely because the protagonist is a 250 lb 6 foot 5 hero in the books, and Tom Cruise in the film.
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lol, I absolutely agree with you.
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Sure, size matters !
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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If you are referring to book based movies, I do not think we should compare them. The movie crew had their own vision plus monitory burden and a must add visual entertainment part to the book. So, your imagination may or may not be same as theirs and also it also depends if 2 hours are enough to capture everything.
If I have to choose between books and movies otherwise, I will go for movies any day. However, it will not be mainstream things. I would rather go for short films, documentaries and realistic cinema. And Pixar, not the recent ones.
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was one of my favourite Movies of all time, until it was ruined when that Sophie Dahl's Grandad decided to jump on her fame and write a book about it.
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Films suck. Books are WAY WAY WAY better.
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I don't think so: to my mind, you are comparing apples and oranges.
Try equating "Movie" with "short story" rather than "novel" and they work well. But they have to throw so much background in that can be covered in a couple of pages in a novel that they run out of space for the story... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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"Book of the movie" or "movie of the book" are not certainly different in my opinion. Two versions/views of the same thing.
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I disagree.
You can take an excellent movie (or even a good one) and produce a "book of the movie" - they nearly always stink! Normally because there isn't enough in the movie to make a novel, but they aren't allowed to invent material by the studio, so you do a "Dan Brown" and pad, pad, pad!
There are exceptions: but you need a good director who will work with a good author to produce a good book, and that's rare (the only example I can think of is James Cameron and Orson Scott Card on The Abyss)
"Movie of the book" goes the other way and throws out too much because the film would be a week long if they didn't! (A recent example is Enders Game: excellent book, hacked to death to fit in a film, and ends up poorer as a result)
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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