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Borrowing vs Buying

Do you prefer to borrow books from libraries when you want to read them, or buy the book and add it to your collection?

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Personally I love buying a book and keeping it in my collection. It reminds me of what I've been reading, and it's a great reminder to pick it up one day and read it again 🤓

I only keep essentials. I don't have much space. I like rereading like Carla and I reread a lot of graphic novels and poetry. There are very few novels I have the time and energy to reread; the chosen ones.

Yeah, I've collected so many books over the years that I'm running out of room. It's hard to let them go but I've started the process of culling... I've put little orange stickers on the ones earmarked for other homes (i.e. Good Sammies). So, definitely for me, 2017 I need to read more, accumulate less... (e-books excepted, yay!).

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