Library Haul!

A little while ago, I was looking at my extensive TBR list on Amazon, sighing at how much money it was going to take me to actually read all the books on my list, when my mum looked over my shoulder and suggested that I just get the books out from the library instead.

It's a measure of how entrenched I've become in Kindletopia that this option hadn't occurred to me.  The main reason I moved away from paper books was because the the sheer space they take up in my house.  Five of us live in an okay-but-not-massive house and I read over a hundred books a year.  There just isn't the space to have them all hanging around.  But if the whole point is to give the books back in a couple of weeks...

Essex Libraries have an awesome online reservation system - if the book you want isn't in your local library they'll have it sent over from another library in the county.  Fifteen minutes later I had the following beauties winging their way to my library from such exotic locales as Canvey Island and Basildon.

All hail Essex Libraries.  In a time of massive local government budget cuts, you are still being awesome.