Library or owning?
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Re: Library or owning?
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So true!Reader-Rachel wrote:I don't know what I would do if I couldn't have my shelves of books. There is something very comforting having them around.
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A story I think I've told here on the forums before, long ago, involves an experience I had many years ago which illustrates what I am trying to say. It was a dark and stormy night ... no, really, it was *LOL* ... and I was in the mood to read something but had no idea what I wanted to read. It was sort of like going to the fridge to find something to munch on even though you don't know what you want, but in this case my library took the place of the fridge. I looked over a bookcase of "classics" and "Pulitzer winners" and came across The Rise and Fall Of The Third Reich by William Shirer. It turned out to be one of the best reading experiences of my life and it had been sitting there the whole time.
I just went over a list of all the books I've read in the last four years and though there were many good ones on the list I can only find four that I think at some point I might want to read again. Most of these books were contemporary fiction recommendations. So why store books that you don't plan to ever read again? Store them at your local library and create room on your shelves for the books you may want to read at some time in the future - for those times when you are ill and can't go out or snowed in.
― Steven Wright
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