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Happy May Day! Share here the books you buy this month.
Afsana wrote: "Have you read MJ Rose other books? I read couple and found them a bit over the top explicit."I like Rose's Reincanationist series, but the Dr. Morgan Snow one is just so-so.

I like to enter, especially since the book I won,
The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott by
Kelly O. McNees, I probably would not have read and greatly enjoyed if I hadn't won it.

Come summertime, garage sales are not a bad place to find used books cheap. You never know what you might come across, I've gotten lucky find out-of-prints and first editions for less than a buck. Most garage sale sellers often don't know what they have and they don't care, they just want to get rid of the stuff. :-)
McKenzie wrote: "Sales are beautiful things, especially if it's only fifty cents for paperbacks. But what I hate about them is that I cannot tell myself no. Yeah, I can get a lot of books for a small price, but I r..."McKenzie, I learned a bit of wisdom years ago, that if you buy something for sale just because it was a great price, that it's not something you really needed or want, that you didn't plan to buy it to begin with it, it's not really a great deal. Whenever I come across something that's got a great price, I ask myself do I really need or want this. If I have any secondthoughts whatsoever, I put it back and walk away. Of course, to be honest, I do this more often for things like groceries than books, but even we bibliomaniacs have to be able to tell ourselves no from time to time.
Emily Iliani wrote: "I'm sorry and please don't take me as a cave(wo)man, but please do explain this concept of 'library sale'. I don't think we have it in Malaysia..."Public libraries in the U.S. will often sell old, no longer needed or wanted books withdrawn from their collection as well as donated books to raise money for the library. They often have large sales regularly, such as quarterly, as well as often have a couple of shelves or carts that they keep stocked throughout the year with these books to sell them.

I prefer new books, but so long as it is still in readable condition and not likely to fall apart on me, I have no problem whatsoever buying a used book. I definately buy plenty of both, most often I'll buy a book new if it is the book's very first publication, but if I just discovered the title and it has been out for a long time, I'll more often than not look for it used to save money.

Nicky-Ann, when I saw the title you gave to this thread, the first thought that popped into my head was "Yeah, wonderful, and dangerous." lol
I absolutely love library book sales. I even have a hard time passing a library because I always want to stop in to see what they might have that day sitting on their used-books-for-sale shelves. :-)
Sammie =^.^= wrote: "lol the library closest to me is now charging 100 for a fully functional library card, if you don't live in the small area that pays a certain tax i'm like arer you serious you're telling me I now Have to drive 30mins to my nearest library that has barely anything O.o something isn't right in tonka town there...."I'm sorry to hear of such a high charge for a library card, but as a librarian I can understand it. Libraries do need money, desperately, to keep running, and if we can't get it from the taxes patrons pay to villages, we have to get it straight from the patrons themselves. My town gets its money from the incorporated patrons who pay taxes, but those who live in unincorporated areas do have to pay yearly for a library card. Unfortunate, but that is just the way things have to be.
Lisa wrote: "Shannon wrote: "I don't think I could ever get a Kindle or Nook. I love to smell pooks and hold them too much. I also like seeing them lined up on the shelves not on a list on a machine. I'm kinda OCD I guess."
Im so glad someone else understands lol. Everyones like "You need a Kindle, you read too much!" I refuse lol..."I know where you are coming from. I love to collect books almost as much as I love to read them. You can't admire a Kindle sitting on a book shelf like you can rows and rows of books.
L11Beverly wrote: "I have taught Kindergarten and First grade for seven years and I am currently getting my masters degree in reading education. This trend of closing bookstores and only offering books in a digital ..."Beverly, I work as a Youth Services Librarian and think you make a very good point. I personally do not care for ebooks, I think you have certainly hit the nail on the head that kids need no distractions and things like the internet and ebooks sure seem to do everything but keep kids focused.
Sarah wrote: "I'm trying to complete my Agatha Christie collection without buying any duplicates - which is a nightmare!"Sarah, you might want to go here:
http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/C_A...You can print off this list of all of her work and check the titles off as you get them.

Jana reminded me of a quirk I had in college. I would always, and I mean always, have a book with me. My friends would worry if they did not see me with a book in hand. But that's not the quirky part. Since I would always bring a book to the cafeteria in case I had some free time to read at meal time I would keep that book inside a ziploc back until it was time to read to protect it from spills and the like. And I have to tell you, more times than I can count I was glad that book was in that bag.

IMO, the best way to show true love to a book is to read it often and do your best to keep it in good condition as well as you can.

I don't really have a favorite spot to read since I'll ready anywhere I have a chance to. The spots I most often read at home are the couch in my living room and when the weather is nice enough out on my balcony where I can watch the birds by the pond behind my apartment building.

To keep it protected and dust free, I put in a ziplock bag the copy of
The Canterbury Tales my parents bought for me in Canterbury, England.

The only time I pay full price for a book is when I buy an autographed copy from Anderson's Book Shop. Otherwise, I usually buy my hardcovers from Amazon for a certain percent off and be sure to spend enough for free shipping and I buy my paperbacks from Borders using a coupon. Sometimes I'll shop from Bookdepository if they give a better deal than Amazon.