I keep them! I keep all my read books in an area all by themselves apart from my books that I have yet read. I frequently go back and handle all the books that I've read just like old friends. I think about the book and the plot. I enjoy the book all over again. I just couldn't throw the book out. I use the book to jog my memory. If I didn't have the physical book to jog my memory, then I'm afraid I might not ever think of the book again. I'm 53 and I need all the memory jogging I can get!

While I've become quite good at purging unnecessary clutter from my life and house, something I find almost impossible to part with is books!

My gothics have their own dedicated bookcase. It's not a large bookcase, but I have no doubt that eventually the collection will outgrow it.

I simply can't part with them. I like the covers. I like to think that the air in my study/office/library is perfumed by the emanations of their yellowed, acid-laden pages. The smoky-sweet-powdery-acrid-woodpulpy smell of old paperbacks -- I'd bottle it if I could!

I keep them because I love the covers. Have about 200 so far.

I've sold them, typically in lots grouped by author, on eBay. I also list them on paperbackswap.

Hi all

After reading Gothic books I keep them all in alphabetical order by author so I know whether I've read future novels I come across and consider reading.

Hello out there! I am only minutes new to this forum. In fact, this is the first of any kind that I have ever joined. My user name is taken from the heroine of one of my favorite Gothic stories--The Master of Aysgarth by Margaret Mayhew. I have been a Gothic fan since I was in my teens. I am now in my forties. I keep most of my Gothics after reading them, unless I really disliked them, in which case I donate them to the library book sale in my area. I have enjoyed reading the posts of others and learning of some new authors. What fun!