Books, books, books

[AspenRose]

Perhaps you do this already but I LOVE books and instead of buying them I get the ISBN number from Amazon or somewhere and ask my library to order it so everyone in the community can enjoy.

I do this with DVDs, too.

[eleny]

1. Me too

I like to read but would run out of room if I bought all the books I want to read. So I make heavy use of my library and was happy to pay the small increase in local taxes when libraries ran into funding problems years ago.

The only sad thing to happen recently is that the courier company that transports books from libraries outside the county has gone bancrupt. I hope our county can find another courier.

[lildreamer316]

2. Also

We have a store that sells used books and then, if/when I am finished with them I just re-sell the books back to them. I am bad about not returning library books, so this works well when I find something I like.

[politicat]

3. Colorado just lost the interlibrary loan courier, so....

So ILL is dead for the moment here.

Books are something I refuse to give up. Like Francie in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, if I can have my books, (throw out my coffee) I feel rich.

However, I tend to buy used if possible (with some exceptions; I like the author, I buy new so they get the tiny fraction of the sale price - the politics of royalties are ugly). I've found that Amazon's used program work pretty well for me. Lots of books run basically the shipping fee, so I get something for $3.50. I rarely pay more than $5 for a book.

We also have fabulous used bookstores in town, so that helps. Since I do a lot of research for my writing, pretty much any book I buy becomes a tax-writeoff eventually, and if I gave my books back, I wouldn't have the one I needed when I needed it.

[truth2power]

4. I do that too, or get from interlibrary loan. n/t