Thanks for great feedback, guys!
Well, quite honestly, I am a little surprised that many of you keep travel books so well! It seems my buy-tear-throw away behavior is far on the minority side.
I tend not to keep things. Or trying not. I don't keep travel books, and I usually don't shoot pictures. The last picture I took while traveling was taken about 10 years ago...I took only one picture in a two-week travel, which was a picture of a FA