When my husband and I moved to Indiana (mercifully, only for a year), we got a library card the day we moved in. The house was full of unopened boxes to the point that we didn't even know where truly essential things (e.g. the towels) were, but we had our library cards. We'd always known that we loved books with a tremendous passion, but that was the time that we realized that we were dangerously crazy about books. :-)
Many of my friends buy every book that they want to read, if they can afford it, and if they can't afford it, they don't read it. I don't really understand that. If we bought every book that we'd ever wanted to read, the house would be even more crammed with books than it already is. Not to mention that there are many books that are fun to read once, but they aren't necessarily worthy of house room. We get books from the library when we aren't certain that we'll like them or when the author is dead or insanely famous. We buy books when a living but not very famous author writes things that we like (e.g. Kim Harrison), under the theory that these are the writers who really need our money.
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Date: 2006-08-03 08:23 pm (UTC)-Oh, and: There's a new book out called The Space Opera Renaissance, edited by Hartwell and Cramer, that I think you might like . . .
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Date: 2006-08-03 08:39 pm (UTC)And thanks.
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Date: 2006-08-04 01:09 am (UTC)Many of my friends buy every book that they want to read, if they can afford it, and if they can't afford it, they don't read it. I don't really understand that. If we bought every book that we'd ever wanted to read, the house would be even more crammed with books than it already is. Not to mention that there are many books that are fun to read once, but they aren't necessarily worthy of house room. We get books from the library when we aren't certain that we'll like them or when the author is dead or insanely famous. We buy books when a living but not very famous author writes things that we like (e.g. Kim Harrison), under the theory that these are the writers who really need our money.