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A friend of mine has forwarded an email to me pertaining to the local national library is organising a Book Exchange event. The purpose is obviously to encourage people to exchange used book in a way to save our trees on this planet.

The procedure of doing the book exchange is quite straight forward. Just three simple steps to exchange your used books for new reads. All you need to do is to bring your used books to any public library on the specified date, time and place. 

Then, you just need to drop off your used books and get a book exchange coupon indicating one-for-one exchange for the books accepted. After that, bring your coupon to redeem for the used books dropped by other book lovers.

Of course, there are terms and conditions apply that you need to follow before exchanging the used books. Otherwise, you are just wasting yours and other people’s time.

I love to write as well as love to read. I have bought many books since my school days and I’m still keeping them in my bookshelf. Most of the older books have turned yellowish and smelly after all these years. 

Despite this, I still keep the old books with me and will take them out if I wanted to look for some information for my writing. I have the habit of writing down the price, date and place of purchase on the last few pages of the book. 

It helps to bring back the good old memory of the past whenever I take out the book and do a quick flip-through. The books have some sentimental values to me so I don’t think I would want to participate in the book exchange event.

Even if the books are so old, yellowish, smelly and torn, I would rather keep them in my bookshelf than to let them go. I enjoy the process of reading and I will not forget about the books have had brought me joy.