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buy or borrow?
Topic Started: May 12 2006, 11:57 AM (321 Views)
LWpianistin
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HOLY CARP!!!
Opti's reply in the houses-full-of-books thread made me wonder:

do you buy books, or borrow from the library? if both, which one is more common?
why?

i buy books. i couldn't bear to read a really good book and then have to part with it.
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justme
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I buy books.

For a while I borrowed them from the library but then I started buying them from the library! :lol:
"Men sway more towards hussies." G-D3
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Optimistic
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Usually borrow first, then buy if I really like it.

I'll make exceptions here and there, like if the book is very highly recommended. Also, if it's second-hand (read: CHEAP!) I don't mind buying if it just sounds good.
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BeeLady
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We borrow more now than buy. Partly because we just had too many books (bookshelves would spontaneously collapse! ), some forgotten ones sprouted mold, and our book budget was getting to be out of control.

So now, if I buy a book it needs to be something important or precious. Sometimes, I will borrow it first to see if it is worth buying and adding to the libary.

Others, particularly summer reading, I buy at the local library book sales and then when I am done, I pass them on or donate them back!

Another reason for borrowing is that we have the most charming library. It is like home away from home with a wonderful staff who know us all by name and reading tastes.

Apparently, I am not the only fan. Our tiny library has the largest per capita circulation of all the area libraries (even Quirt's!) all in much larger towns. :biggrin:

(I currently have 3 or 4 books checked out!)
"My wheel shall sing responsive to my tread,
And I will spin so fine, so strong a thread
Fate shall not cut it, nor Time's forces break"
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Dewey
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For fiction, we usually borrow. But I'm still buying quite a few non-fiction books, most of them specialty-related to ongoing classes & related subjects.
"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685.

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sue
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Both. I'm always bring library books home, way more than I ever have time to read. But I also buy a lot, especially non-fiction.
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bachophile
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buy books.

i only "borrow" music.
"I don't know much about classical music. For years I thought the Goldberg Variations were something Mr. and Mrs. Goldberg did on their wedding night." Woody Allen
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Jolly
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Borrow.

Aside from technical stuff, you'd be hard-pressed IMNSHO to find much more than 50 "must-haves".
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AlbertaCrude
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Both- although I have a tendency to buy history books. I am a great fan and patron of Abebooks.com service.
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apple
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mr. apple compulsively buys books. if it weren't so good for him, i'd call it a sickness.
it behooves me to behold
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DivaDeb
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Buy. I beg to differ with you Jolly. There are at least 50 must haves in a pile next to my bed.
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Dewey
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In honor of this thread, I bought two books this evening - "Brave New World" for Fourteen, and Brian McLaren's "The Secret Message of Jesus" for me - oh, and a nice non-literary Mother's Day gift for Mrs. Dewey. ^_^
"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685.

"Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." - Anonymous

"Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011

I'll answer your other comments later, but my primary priority for the rest of the evening is to get drunk." - Klaus, 12/31/14
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schindler
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Borrow. When I can get at a library. Seriously, when I lived in Texas I would go to the library twice a week and get out six to a dozen books. I would go broke if I tried to keep up with my reading habit by buying.
We're all mad here!
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LWpianistin
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DivaDeb
May 12 2006, 06:15 PM
Buy.  I beg to differ with you Jolly.  There are at least 50 must haves in a pile next to my bed.

:lol: to each their own. i have a lot of "must haves" that other people would disagree about, like my favorite book EVER. i've read it 2 1/2 times, and am going to read some of it tonight, since i still haven't found a new book to read. this book is a wonderful Fantasy. title: Dragon Prince. author: Melanie Rawn. LOVE IT. point being, for me it is a must have, but for others, it could easily be a throw away.
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Riley
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If I borrow, I end up returning them many months late, and paying loads of late fees. So I buy. There's a second hand bookstore that sells them half their original price, and always excellent, near new condition.
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ivorythumper
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bachophile
May 12 2006, 01:43 PM
buy books.

i only "borrow" music.

I only borrow beer...
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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sue
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AlbertaCrude
May 12 2006, 01:49 PM
Abebooks.com

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