I’ve been clearing books and putting them on Paperbackswap, but that’s usually to make room for more books. I have two custom shelves that my husband made for me that are now full as well as taking up space on some of our temp book shelves.

I really want to donate some of my complete series’ to my local library, and have the name of the librarian in charge, but I haven’t spoken to her about it yet. I’d really like for them to go into circulation. I know our library has been hit with budget cuts, and I’m sure manga is at the bottom of the list. But I just have such a hard time giving them up. I was holding on to a lot of them thinking I would review them, but I’ve now come to the conclusion that it will be impossible. So that’s helped a little with letting go.

I tend to clear out books to make room for manga, as there are quite a few books I don’t think I’m going to read again. Also, I donate manga I don’t like very much to my local library – I know the librarian who does the graphic novel selection so I’m able to get the manga into the circulating collection of the library. I currently have a giant bag of manga set aside for donating to a library’s anime/manga club, so a librarian can use them as giveaways. Also, I sometimes put manga up on paperbackswap.com, where I swap it for more manga. I tend to hold on to series I mildly like for far too long though.