Do you buy your books or borrow from your local library?

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Both I'm a big-time bibliophile, so I buy a lot of books. I reread many books, and like to loans books to friends and family, and I like to have books on hand immediately. I also read voraciously, sometimes as much as a book a day, and rarely less than a book a week.

I also take a lot of books out of the library. I mean, I'm not made of money and buying books can get expensive, even if I peruse a lot of used book stores for the majority of my purchases. Plus, the reality is that we do not live in an overly large house and we're starting to become overrun by books!

So the library is a great venue to find books, especially books that I'm not sure if I'll enjoy or books that I suspect I wouldn't ever want to reread. A library is especially great for kids books. My two and a half year old twins also love to read, and the library is a great source of new reading material for them.

Unfortunately, my local library is pretty terrible. But on the plus side, there is a network of libraries in local towns that grant residents from other towns access to their libraries. There's a beautiful library in the next town over.It's a longer drive, but well worth it!

Sources: My bookshelves .

Borrow from the library A little over two years ago we moved from the house we'd lived in for 20 years to our retirement home. We don't have the bookcases here that we had at the old house. So not only did we donate literally thousands of books when we moved, we've pretty much stopped buying books.

The last thing we need to do is accumulate another thousand books! So other than reference-type books, we now get all our reading material at the local library. I'm going through it alphabetically by author.

After two years I'm still in the B's, but I've encountered many authors, plots, and themes I would never have read otherwise, and I'm enjoying it immensely. My husband tends to pick an author and read all his/her work before moving on to the next. The librarians know us by name.

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I know I'm probably weird in this... ...but I just can't stand getting books from a library. They make you give the books back! And they set a time limit for how long you can read them!

That's just so wrong....wrong wrong wrong. If I picked out a book to read, it's because I thought I would find something of value in the book. That might be because I read the dust jacket, or skimmed the index, or read a review someplace, or whatever.

But I find that there are very few books that I pick out that have only transient or temporary value to me. I don't pick out a book just to have something to read; if I'm looking for something to just pass the time with, TV is just more fun than most books. Most books that I have picked out carefully and then read I have gone back to many times.

If I liked the fictional story the first time through, I'll probably like reading it again in a few years (or a few months); if I liked the advice the first time I read it, I will find myself returning to it to remind me of it or to see how it applies to new situations I encounter; if I found lots of useful data or models or concepts in the book, I will find that I need to explain that data/model/concept to someone else a few years down the road (like on Askville ) and so will look it up in the book again. I have fantasy series I've read and re-read dozens of times; advice books that I've read five or six times in the past decade; and computer books I hit every year or so for some explanation or fact. If I've given the book back to the library, then I've lost that ability.

Also, for the books I picked out carefully and haven't read yet, I can't always know when I'll be in the mood to read them or how fast I will get through them. I end up wasting all the time I spent picking the book out if I just have to return it unread at some future point because some time limit has expired. So, given that 9 times out of 10, I'm going to want to keep the book, even if it takes me a year to get around to reading it, I just get all my books from the bookstore.

Budget be damned. "If I have a little money, I buy books; then if I have any left over, I buy food. " - saw that on a T-shirt once.

Sources: personal experience .

Both. The library is perhaps one of the last lending institutions where the sharing of knowledge is uncompromised, uncensored and free. Bookstores must follow a protocol with regards to censurship...as do some libraries.

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Both! I'm always reading, it's like my favorite thing to do. Unfortunately, I read very quickly and I don't have a whole lot of taste.

Like a garbage disposal, I'll devour just about anything. And I HAVE to have at least a couple of new books standing by or I get anxious. I go to 2 local libraries regularly (where I seem to rent books rather than borrow them, due to my inability to get them back on time!).

And I always check out the Book Stop shops at the libraries, where their old books are put out to pasture. I definitely do my part to support Amazon, and I'm a regular at my local Salvation Army store where they have a continuous supply of readers' proofs, which they sell for 75 cents to a dollar each. Such a deal!

(Wonder where they get them from--they have so MANY, and from so many different publishers! ) I will listen to audio books while I'm painting or something, but not books by my favorite authors--I still prefer the printed page, although I have to admit I enjoy having that option available.My sister and I ship boxes of paperbacks back and forth; thank goodness for media mail! ---And then there are garage sales and book fairs to fill in the cracks.

Even though I try to economize, and seldom buy anything at full price, it really can be an expensive habit. Oh well! It's cheaper than cocaine, I guess!

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Can you download library books to a kindle.

Can I borrow books from the library for my kindle.

Why cant I download books from my local public library.

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