You know, if you have a pile of ARCs you don't want but don't feel morally comfortable giving away, you could throw them in the garbage can. It does sound like sacrilege, but you could do it.
Heh.
Thing is, I do for the most part like having the ARC library around; they are in no few cases my reading copies of the books in question (one doesn't necessarily get both an ARC and a finished copy of any given book), and while using them as such cuts into their theoretical value as collectibles, that's not a major consideration for the majority of the volumes.
And I do donate out some of the material that comes in -- again, typically to convention charity auctions.
It's not a moral thing, really (at least not once the publication window closes). It's just the perennial pack rat's problem of having sufficient space for one's loot.
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Date: 2004-08-01 03:06 am (UTC)Heh.
Thing is, I do for the most part like having the ARC library around; they are in no few cases my reading copies of the books in question (one doesn't necessarily get both an ARC and a finished copy of any given book), and while using them as such cuts into their theoretical value as collectibles, that's not a major consideration for the majority of the volumes.
And I do donate out some of the material that comes in -- again, typically to convention charity auctions.
It's not a moral thing, really (at least not once the publication window closes). It's just the perennial pack rat's problem of having sufficient space for one's loot.