Library or owning?
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Re: Library or owning?
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You see, for the past ten years, I have made my living as a freelance editor, whose clients are mostly 'Indie' authors, so in addition to reading and editing manuscripts, I am reading one hard cover book and one eBook at all times. I simply love the written word and, since I am not a writer, what better way to enjoy the experience than to help bring the work of others to the public? This is the work I was meant to do, after over thirty years of slaving in 'Corporate America.' Now I understand when people say, "Do something you love, and you'll never work a day in your life."
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I'm 37 now and still love going to the library. My children and I rent dvd's and my son often rents games from the library too. So I go more often nowadays just to return or pick up a dvd or a game. Yet, when I finish reading and need new library books, it still becomes like a nice day out for me again. Not in the same way though, as a teenager most of the time I had no name of a writer or a book, I just went, sometimes looked if authors I had previously enjoyed reading had more books, but other than that, I just read the covers of interesting looking books to pick a few. Nowadays I have names of authors and books on a reading list. It's still exciting, looking forward to a certain book.
Over the years I have bought many new and used books. I can't afford to buy them all the time. And even when I can afford it, I'd still most often borrow a book from the library first, read it, and then if I like it and will probably want to read it again, only then I'll buy it. Lack of space is another problem. Once I didn't have enough space for new books anymore, so I gave away many books just to make place for the ones I wanted even more.