As far as I'm concerned, not purchasing book doesn't have all
that much to do with not liking it. It has more to do with
priorities for disposable income. If I could buy every book I
wanted, I'd need a new building to house them.
I use the library a lot. Interlibrary loans are great for
those more obscure titles. (Currently working on You Play the
Black and the Red Comes Up.) I buy maybe a dozen second-hand
pbs a year, and this year I might go up to ten new ones.
Christmas and birthday are good occasions for receiving new
books.
The new fiction paperbacks I've bought recently have been by
list members (Al Guthrie, Charlie Williams, Jason
Starr).
The only hardcover I've bought this year is the new Harry
Potter. I avoid amazon.com as a rule, but unfortunately for
my local bookstores, the lure of the 40% discount was too
strong. I feel more guilty about that than using the
library.
Of course, I'm still working my way through books in the
basement, bought pre house and children. Mostly second-hand,
though.
Karin
At 11:14 25/07/05 -0400, Chris wrote:
>Terill said:
>
>>And not purchasing a book is probably the
harshest criticism you can lay on
>>one.
>
>This is said with a pang of guilt, but sometimes I
think I am the only Avian
>with a library card.
>The ratio of books I check out from the library to
books I buy is off the
>charts. There are maybe half dozen authors I buy in
hardback no questions
>asked and another half dozen or so I pick up in
paperback. I probably pick
>up five or six more a year based on recommendations
or finding a good price.
>I would guess that is more than average but
significantly below most on this
>list.
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