ken s
- Friday, April 25 2008
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I own all of my own books too. I have people saying that I should go to the library and save money. Not a chance, even though I use the library I still own my own books. I'm cheap also, I'm on a pension therefore most of my books are paperbacks (I do have Hardcovers) they take up less room. A used book store I utilize also. When I find a book that is banned I buy it and if I don't get to it right away I eventually do.
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I still buy an occasional pb, but since I've married and moved this past year things have changed. I'll read anything as long as it has words on it, but my new husband (retired military) prefers hardcovers in the library. However, my guests are thrilled that my pb collection is now in the guest room with a nice reading lamp, a coffee pot and a couple of comfy chairs. Rummage and yard sale time is almost upon us and I can hardly wait to see what literary goodies I can find.
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My husband and I have a tendency to buy our books rather than make use of the library. Amazon is my favorite site to shop. I'v gotten pretty good deals from third party merchants before. I also found sales in my state through http://www.booksalefinder.com.
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Kiki68
- Sunday, April 27 2008
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I wish I could afford to own everything I've read--I usually buy books by authors I love, or of I read it from the library or someone else
's copy and I loved it. I work in a book store and get a discount, but tend to buy my books used--thrift stores and the library also has a used book store, and yard sales, if there is anything that strikes my fancy.
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ken s
- Monday, April 28 2008
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No matter how you look at it books are magical and they are traps. Magical because they take you to every type of world or place and a book, you see, is the only kind of trap that keeps its captive - which is knowledge - alive forever. The more books you have, the more traps. After all an idle mind is the devil's seed bed.
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The books I like to read were mostly either not on the library shelves or I had to pay feels for interlibrary loans, which can get pricey.
I wound up keeping an eye out at thrift stores and the library sale since there's lots that they don't put on the shelf and go directly for sale instead.
I'm addicted to bookswim lately too so I get unlimited 7 at a time membership for about 35 dollars a month instead of 5 dollars fee for each from the library.
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I own pretty much everything I read too. Goodwill is okay, but have you tried estate sales or garage sales? I find nearly new recent reads/great deals there too.
Instead of going to the library, support your local used bookstore. They're closing up everywhere at an alarming rate. Very sad...
-k.
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ken s
- Wednesday, April 30 2008
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Used book stores are a good source for a great many books. I go to a used book store a couple times a month sometimes more. I pick up alot of books from it. She gave me a great deal last month for the Executioner series. I picked up over 100 books for that series at 50cents each. So by all means I agree with katiebee support you local used book store.
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The Library is great but I prefer to own my own book if it's an author I'm really hooked on. I just got in the habit of buying books for school and it stuck.
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Obviously I'm in a minority. I rarely buy books anymore (though I used to). Two reasons...cost and space! I always think I might go back and reread some books (and then it would be nice to own them), but I never do, since my list of books I haven't yet read is so long, those tend to take priority over rereading something I've already read!
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I work at a library. I use the service for two reasons: variety and cost. I can try a much wider variety of books (PINES system in GA) than I could if I had to pay for them. I used to be a used book person, but when you're on a budget, you have to buy what you know you like. Now I can read anything and everything without fear. Also, I read 3-4 books a week. Most of the books I read are newer and hardcover or trade pb, used bookstores aren't able to stock alot of what I read. The cost would be staggering to feed my reading hunger.
I highly advocate using the library to find books you love, then purchasing those books from used bookstores so that your personal library is one of titles you know and love and recommend.
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I love to own all the books I read, and I do own a lot. However, money is tight right now, and I have recently started going to the library. A lot of libraries have "Friends of the Library" bookstores, to help raise money for new books, equipment, etc. The other day I got 9 books -- 1 hardcover and most of the rest trade paperbacks -- for $4.50!! I was so excited. So I ended up buying 9 and checking out 3. lol
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I understand the tight money situation. However, I have gotten super deals at auctions lately. We got 14 boxes of books (20-30 ber box) for only $2-5 per box. What we don't want we take to a used book store and trade them in for things we want to read. I still love to buy books at Good Will. They are always in good condition, and there are many many current titles. I guess some folks just read them and get rid of them. However, I have behaved myself, and haven't bought a book in over a month, now. I feel like I'm going through withdrawal!
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I used to buy books (both used and new), but now I use the library all the time. I rarely ever buy books that I haven't read, and if I do they are usually recommended to me or they are by an author I already love. Usually I'll read books from the library and then if I come across the ones I loved in used book stores or on bookins.com (you all MUST check this service out), then I'll buy them. But I also don't keep books that I didn't love. Why would I? I'd rather use that room for books that I really loved.
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Jess
- Sunday, June 15 2008
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The library system in my county rarely have the books in that I want to read, and the books that they do have in that I want to read have a fee on them to check out. It's usually the best seller books that they put a fee on, but I always thought libraries were supposed to be free. So, I buy my books when there's a sale at the bookstore.
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Mike F
- Saturday, June 21 2008
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I would buy a lot more books but to be perfectly honest, my wife gets mad if I do. Lol. I check most of mine out at the community college library I go to. Every now and then, we will buy paperbacks at a yard sale. I keep the few hardcovers I manage to collect and my paperbacks I bring to work when I finish them and give them away. I really have a hard time giving my books away but I want others to be able to enjoy them too.
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I utilize the library, I utilize used book stores (Half Price Books is wonderful), I utilize book superstores, I am always looking for indie book stores, where I would prefer to shop instead of the superstores, I utilize Goodwill and garage sales. My goal in life is to have more books than I have room for!
That said, I think it's important to purchase new copies of books by authors I really like, particularly if they are not well established. Writing is hard work with very little reward for the majority of writers. If we don't purchase, new, the books of the up-and-coming authors we love, then they won't have the resources necessary for writing the follow up.
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