Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forced books on to people who have subsequently forgotten all about it. Meanwhile, on my shelves sit many orphaned books loaned to me over the years by trusting, innocent souls - some as long ago as the Seventies.
Growing up, books were my lifeline, and I owe a debt to those writers that can never be repaid. They saved my sanity and gave me a world I could escape to. If I can pay that forward to another person, that's all I ask.
As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.
Never expect a loan to a friend to be paid back if you want to keep that friend.
I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back.
My bookshelves have no order. I prune them regularly and sell the books to Myopic Books, a Chicago bookstore. They give me store credit, and then I spend all the store credit, and, presumably, return to sell them back more of the books I bought from them.
Just because someone will lend money to you doesn't mean you should borrow it.
Books are my very favorite gift to give. If you give a book to someone and they really respond to it, you feel you've actually changed their life in some way.
If the books are selling, the money will follow.
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