Why Buy? (Booking through Thursday)

I've asked, in the past, about whether you more often buy your books, or get them from libraries. What I want to know today, is, WHY BUY?

Even if you are a die-hard fan of the public library system, I'm betting you have at least ONE permanent resident of your bookshelves in your house. I'm betting that no real book-lover can go through life without owning at least one book. So...why that one? What made you buy the books that you actually own, even though your usual preference is to borrow and return them?

If you usually buy your books, tell me why. Why buy instead of borrow? Why shell out your hard-earned dollars for something you could get for free?

Libraries and bookshops makes me want to take a crap - literary - and libraries worse than bookshops. I like to own books - I reread them. There is another reason. Buying is much quicker for me: pick and pay up. Books give me a stomachache - especially the book smells from the library. For every library trip, I have to go to the loo at least once. So buying is much faster.

(Ouch. Hurts to hit the space bar: I've cut my nail too close to the skin of my left thumb. Being a bit lazy because I'm near 50k.)

Permalink Posted on 21 November 08 at 10:43 pm by Eileen as part of Books. Leave a comment

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