Library or Buy?

FrostedNipple · 4 Mar 2009 at 16:42

If I want to read a book I will reserve a cop from the library then pick it up when it is in. The only book I own are ones gifted to me. What about you? Do you buy your books or borrow them from the library?

jonislost · 4 Mar 2009 at 16:47

I tend to buy them and I have no idea why. I have thought about using the library, but normally I'll just be out and impulse buy a book that catches my eye. I don't normally pre-order unless its something really interesting.

Shamikebab · 4 Mar 2009 at 16:50

I tend to buy them, normally because I read books more than once.

Kua · 4 Mar 2009 at 16:57

Shamikebab said:
I tend to borrow them, normally because I read books only once.

EDIT: Having said that. Don't forget to renew folks. I had six on loan and went a few days without renewing, racking up a 10 pound fee, which in Yorkshire is a week's wage.

Werewolf · 4 Mar 2009 at 16:59

If it's one i'm likely to reread i'll buy it, if it's one i might only read once i'll buy it if it's cheap, otherwise i'll tend to get them from the library.

Nix · 4 Mar 2009 at 17:06

I like to own them and I'm not a huge fan of the old, abused second-hand books they have in my local library.

The university library was good though, they were in much better condition.

FrostedNipple · 4 Mar 2009 at 17:10

My uni library doesn't appear to have fiction books. So i have to go to the coucil one in town. Book quality has been fine so far (although i have only borrowed one book so far

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This is what my library looks like though

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_D_j0DPTIGuY/R9PsPdulnJI/AAAAAAAARLI/rj3YmXKLb5k/DSCN6176.JPG

:cool:

Cosimo · 4 Mar 2009 at 17:13

We do both and are lucky to have two different library services nearby, both mainly used for fiction. I buy a lot of non-fiction which gets kept. My wife buys quite a few novels, she only keeps a few and the rest are given to friends and charity.