Why? You read them once and you never touch them again.
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Do you BUY books?
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Posts: 4249 (09/28/08 10:33 PM) Registered User |
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khnum |
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Posts: 19315 (09/28/08 10:35 PM) Registered User |
I like to have them around. I dunno. Lend them out, show off to other people what I like to read.
Whenever I go into someone's house for the first time, I judge them based on their movies and books. |
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CadyH.realitysucks |
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Posts: 162 (09/28/08 10:35 PM) |
Yes, then I sell them.
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Mom HOLIO |
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Posts: 461 (09/28/08 10:35 PM) Registered Adult
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I buy books. I wait until the books I want to read are in paperback. I do re-read books. It may be several years between readings, but if I save them, I
re-read them.
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Posts: 6167 (09/28/08 10:36 PM) Hellooooo Nurse |
I have to because of school
And I generally have to keep them as reference books. So my bookshelf is full of titles like "Clinical and Normal Nutrition", "Psychiatric Nursing", "Health Assessment and Physical Examination" and "Pathophysiology".
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ObservingEgo |
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Posts: 6659 (09/28/08 10:44 PM) Hi, you two!!! : ) : ) |
I buy and borrow. When I adore a particular author, I must everything he/she ever wrote. It's sort of an OCD thing I guess. |
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Us Kids Know |
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Posts: 8270 (09/28/08 10:50 PM) Registered user
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Merely wrote: Um no. I reread books I love all the time. And even if I don't I like having them on the shelf. It's a part of your personality in a way. It's no different to me than hanging a painting you like. |
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Jitensha |
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Posts: 14650 (09/28/08 10:57 PM) I Must Be Psychic |
yes. I reread books constantly.
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finishthemoff |
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Posts: 10337 (09/28/08 10:58 PM) Registered user |
At thrift store, I do.
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Kitten Gloves |
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Posts: 9639 (09/28/08 11:00 PM) Registered User |
I buy nice coffee table books to display about subjects I'm interested in (oceanography, Sotheby's Porcelian Encyclopedias, etc, but I trade novels
with friends, usually. Also buy/trade paperbacks at the used paperback store. Awesome deals.
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Kimbob the Magnificent |
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Posts: 5287 (09/28/08 11:01 PM) Yes, smarter than you |
If I buy bound books, I read them and donate them to the library. Most of my books are on kindle, though.
Kimbob the Honest |
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peanuts4444 |
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Posts: 27 (09/28/08 11:02 PM) |
I borrow some from the library... but I buy a lot as well.... some I give to my friends and family when I'm done... ones that I know I'll read again I
keep
One series of books I read..I have bought them all and read them over and over again |
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Kitten Gloves |
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Posts: 9641 (09/28/08 11:03 PM) Registered User |
^^ Sue Grafton, amIrite?
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ObservingEgo |
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Posts: 6661 (09/28/08 11:04 PM) Hi, you two!!! : ) : ) |
Us Kids Know wrote:Exactly. Books are very personal statements. |
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peanuts4444 |
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Posts: 28 (09/28/08 11:05 PM) |
^^^ No... I do enjoy those though.. get them from the library.. the ones I read over and over are the In Death series by J.D Robb... love them.. when I kept
taking them out of the library I said screw it and slowly bought them all... some new, some ebay and some second hand stores
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Kitten Gloves |
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Posts: 9642 (09/28/08 11:14 PM) Registered User |
I'll have to look into those. I love Graftons series.
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peanuts4444 |
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Posts: 29 (09/28/08 11:19 PM) |
I loved Grafton's last one... have you read it?? T is for Trespass??
The Robb books are so good.. not for everyone... my sister hates them..... they are set in the future |
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Posts: 3121 (09/29/08 2:23 AM) Registered user |
I like Grafton's books too. I usually keep the books I buy (paperback mostly), unless it turns out to be a dud.
I will buy Stephen King and Dean Koontz in hardback if I find them at a good price. I reread a lot of their books. |
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Apprentice Talker |
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Posts: 6305 (09/29/08 2:23 AM) WRP Official Spokesperson |
Yeah. I bought a pocketbook for my Filipino class back in college. I read the entire book and its 20 summaries. My professor in Filipino talked me about
I'm not interested in pocketbook along with judges.
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Buttinsky |
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Posts: 806 (09/29/08 2:56 AM) Registered User |
Only reference-type books with piccies on quality paper.
Nevah paperback novels on pulp. Yuck. |
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CBRetriever |
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Posts: 21580 (09/29/08 3:33 AM) MESS member |
buy or check out from the library and I do reread books
library has mostly hardbounds and a lot of sci fi only comes out in paperback |
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