I think I may have mentioned this earlier at some point but... it bears repeating!! I love the public library!! I love that for $12/year, I can check out and read as many books as I possibly can... I love the idea of putting a hold on a book, getting an email notice that it is in, picking it up and reading it. When I buy books at the bookstore (Chapters!), I tend to buy too many... and then they languish on the bookshelf waiting for me to read them. Until something new comes along and then I buy that and the other books sink to the bottom of the pile... Not very satisfying!!
But with library books, I am pretty much forced to read them if I sign them out. I usually only take out 4 at any one time and in 3 weeks, can get through them pretty handily. Then it's time for another batch... Mind you, these are not on the order of War & Peace!! They are just regular books... mostly non-fiction and I'm finding it a very satisfying relationship with the library.
Mind you... I do still have a Chapters thing... or a bookstore thing... I'll go into a bookstore, maybe at some airport where I'm waiting for a flight... and I'll browse around. I like to read back and inside covers, so that's prefect... I can open the book, flip through it, read a few pages and then either put it down or... Haul out my cell phone and text myself the title and author... From there, it's a small step to log into my library account and put a hold on those books later! No big expenditure of money... no expanding bookshelves required... And the library looks good too!! They have an active patron who's getting their money's worth out of the library! I love it!
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