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I did a breakdown of my personal finances recently and was a bit horrified by the amount of money I was spending on books for my Kindle. And I don’t want you to think I’m buying quality books or anything – these are your garden variety trashy romance novels with misplaced modifiers and constant you’re/your and it’s/its mistakes. So I took a hard look at my library list, which had grown to an unmanageable number of over 250 books someone had either recommended to me or I had read about and wanted to read and whittled it down to what I actually intended on reading. This actually goes against my general rule of thumb of reading that is basically I want to know absolutely nothing about a book I am about to read because I’m horrible about snap based on information on books and/or authors judgments (i.e., the man character is a boy? ugh. the author once owned a cottage in Newport? ugh.). Goodbye, A Girl of the Limblerlost and SunsetPark (I’m really sorry if you’re the person who suggested them!). I’ll keep the entire Ender Wiggin catalog, though.
And then I took my list and went through the library
catalog, attempting to figure out which ones I could get on the shelves at my
local library, which I had to get from another library in my system, and which
ones would require me to actually buy the book or find it in another library
for which I have a library card. Lastly,
I went to the library and got four books – all of which I actually WANT to
read. So I think this will prevent me
from wasting money on flighty books from the Amazon store. I think.
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| Bubbler = drinking fountain in Wisconsin-speak. |
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To see what Bestest Friend wrote about the theme of the day, check out her blog, Too Legit to Quit.
I quit buying books cold turkey in 2012 and my state's library system has keep me satisfied since then. :) Good luck!
ReplyDeleteAnd thank you for help with bubbler - never heard that term before!