True - but as it's harder to get a new book from the library (given that they may not buy it, that someone else has it out, etc.) I end up reading fewer books, and more online free fiction - which I can then download onto my Palm and carry with me whereever I go, like I used to do by carrying a book in my purse.
I used to spend a few hundred dollars a year on new books - the bookstores I went to had "new paperback" sections, and I'd drop buy every week and buy a book or two back when they were $5 or $6 each. Now that they're $8 or $9 each, I buy a half dozen a year.
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Date: 16 Jan 2009 01:42 pm (UTC)I used to spend a few hundred dollars a year on new books - the bookstores I went to had "new paperback" sections, and I'd drop buy every week and buy a book or two back when they were $5 or $6 each. Now that they're $8 or $9 each, I buy a half dozen a year.