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?

I usually read ebooks to save money. But when I find that I really like the story, I always make sure to have a hard copy version. Reading them in a small monitor is so much different than being able to touch the pages, hear the crispness of the pages when you turn them and smell the paper whether old or new. Most of the time, I buy my books on second hand bookstores or search the web for people who are selling/swapping their old collections. You will not believe what types of books you can find on second hand shops. From classics to new fiction, to very cheap board books for kids to design books to different kinds of cooking. I even saw a book once that’s dedicated to faucet design.