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  • racethom

    Question of the day ...

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    QOTD #1: What is the name of the bookstore you last frequented?
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  • racethom
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    QOTD #2: How often do you buy used books?

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    • sweetpea78
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      As often as possible. I just picked up 10 fro 5$ at a local flea market!

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    • racethom
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      Very nice! I'm envious!

      I did something similar at a garage sale a couple of months ago. The lady is a librarian and all of her books were first edition hardback fantasy books :)

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  • Ursula
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    I buy books once a month.

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    • racethom
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      I'm bad.
      I buy NEW books once a week.
      Mind you, I bought an awful lot of books during Border's closing sales.
      It may actually be a while before I buy books again.

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    • racethom
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      ... a LONG while since I'm apparently not in a huge reading mood lately.

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    QOTD #3: What is your favorite location for reading?

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    • sweetpea78
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      The beach

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    • racethom
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      How do people do that? I've tried but have had a hard time with the glare from the sun and the wind flipping my pages for me.

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    • sweetpea78
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      There's a technique ; ) Angel your chair so the wind it too your back. As for the glare I use sunglasses.

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    • racethom
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      Oh! So the trick is to use your brain! I get it! :D

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    QOTD #4: Are you more apt to buy from a physical or online bookstore?

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    • sweetpea78
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      Since I got a kindle I do most of my :book"shopping electronically. They have so many free books for the kindle

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    • Ursula
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      A physical bookstore

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    • racethom
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      I tend to prefer a physical bookstore BUT I do put stuff on my Reader. What I read on paper and what I read electronically are different. The E-books are either classics (public domain) or free books (stuff I've already read and liked, and stuff I'm not sure I want to read). By getting the free books, I've actually found some new favorites. It might only be 1 book out of 10 ... but I'm not out any money either.

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    • Ursula
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      I'm hoping to get a e-reader for my birthday or christmas. If I do get one I probably won't being books very much.

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    QOTD #5: What types of non-fiction literature do you like to read?

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    • sweetpea78
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      I like true crime and celebrity biographies

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    • racethom
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      True crime scares me because then I can't pretend that real people wouldn't ever really do those things.

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    • Ursula
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      Biographies

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    • racethom
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      art and architecture
      nature
      miscellaneous scientific information magazines

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  • racethom
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    QOTD #6: Have you ever attended author signings? If so, who were they?

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    • Ursula
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      No, I have never attended an author's signing.

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    QOTD #7: Which book are you most thankful for running across in the year of 2011?

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    QOTD #8: What was your favorite children's series?

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