A book rental thread 2011

[Perturabo]

How much shelf space do you have? Do you tend to return to these books?

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Perturabo

How much shelf space do you have? Do you tend to return to these books?

Warspite1

Not enough [&:]

I suppose there are two types I've owned:

Reference books - well yes I return from time to time as required and will keep.

Other books - If I enjoyed the book then I will keep it, even if I know I probably wont read it again. If I haven't enjoyed it then I probably wont have finished it, in which case the book gets binned/sold or whatever.

[Perturabo]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Perturabo

How much shelf space do you have? Do you tend to return to these books?

Warspite1

Not enough [&:]

I suppose there are two types I've owned:

Reference books - well yes I return from time to time as required and will keep.

Other books - If I enjoyed the book then I will keep it, even if I know I probably wont read it again. If I haven't enjoyed it then I probably wont have finished it, in which case the book gets binned/sold or whatever.

My shelves are already full. The worst thing is that second hand book stores are very picky about the books they accept and it's often hard to regain money from old books. I'm thinking about selling some of my comics, particularly the unfortunate Buck Rogers comic. I wonder if it will be possible. I was going to go to a comic book store/antiquary but I catched a nasty cold which keeps me grounded since 4th November.

Generally, I don't like when a book that I'm not going to read is sitting on my shelf so they often end up in the library even if I liked them. I usually keep stuff that is so awesome that I'll return to it or simply looks so good that I don't want to part it. From the books that I've rent this year, I'm considering buying Ernst Jünger - Storm of Steel and Martian Chronicles. Too bad there aren't any deluxe versions of these books.
I also want to buy Jan Gozdawa-Gołębiewski, Tadeusz Wywerka Prekurat - WWI on Sea as it's a huge book with lots of pictures.

[yingxuy]

Then the fund to pay authors. The Fund has also distributed literary translators, translation or from the Swedish language, which is money borrowed from the library.

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[parusski]

ly buy books f

Where were we, I fell asleep reading this thre...[>:][>:][>:]

[Perturabo]

I just as I have expected, my local library bought the Dance With Dragons[:D]. A bit of patience and 45 PLN is saved[:D].

[SuluSea]

This thread is trolling and if I read it correctly is trying to state that public libraries are piracy only in an effort for the OP to make him/herself feel better about their own pirating of software and other materials.

[parusski]

SuluSea you may have a point. And it is odd that anyone would say that public libraries engage in piracy.

[Perturabo]

ORIGINAL: SuluSea

This thread is trolling and if I read it correctly is trying to state that public libraries are piracy only in an effort for the OP to make him/herself feel better about their own pirating of software and other materials.

Nah. It's an effort to make myself feel better about going to library[:D]. After all, isn't it much more exciting, much more adventurous to visit a library not as a poor student but as a devilishly wicked book pirate[:D]?
Isn't it much more satisfying to leave a library with wickedly stolen loot, not just with borrowed books[:D]? Arrr!

And speaking of software and other materials, isn't it wonderfully perverse to buy them with money saved on not paying the authors of the books for reading them[:D]? It's like I have paid for BftB, for other games and music and stuff like that with money pulled out of wallets of book writers[:D]. Sadly apparently it doesn't work like that everywhere and in some places libraries now function as state-funded rentals, which takes away the romantic part of going to a library and leaves just the being poor part.

ORIGINAL: parusski

SuluSea you may have a point. And it is odd that anyone would say that public libraries engage in piracy.

Stephen King hates libraries since he became a writer because they decrease the amount of sales. I've read it in his book about writing and that's where I got that idea from. And personally, I used to buy a lot more books before I got into borrowing from libraries. Then I met a librarian which told me "why pay for books when you can borrow them from a library for free?" when I have told her that I have just bought the first The Witcher novel. Then as I used to buy a lot of books to read, I was borrowing whole series from the library. So, I have stopped spending my pocked money on books and could start spending almost all of it on music CDs.

[parusski]

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Perturabo, please tell me where those mushrooms are. [;)]