Tuesday, 28 October 2008
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Banned from Barnes & Nobes & Borders Books
I have banned myself from Barnes & Nobles and Borders Books for a year.
Simply put, my book buying is seriously out of control.
I’m addicted to buying books or something.
I think I may have spent about a thousand dollars on new books in the last 6 months.
Yes, I do read a lot. I’ve read 22 books this year and 264 in the last eight years. So that is on average 33 books a year.
The problem is however that I own probably at this point hundreds and hundreds of books. I have no idea how many I own, I just know it is a lot. I have an entire room in my parent’s house lined with books (which my family and I just call “the library” at this point) and part of another is starting to fill with books. My own apartment has an entire bookshelf full of books as well as the last six months worth of purchases which I have no place to really put, so I keep them in a coffee table/chest thing that is in my living room.
See, obviously I have a problem. It is the single largest cost I have. I practically purchase nothing else but food and necessities. Sure I have large costs like flying, martial arts, gym, etc. that add up over the year, but those are different.
So, no more Barnes & Nobles and Borders Books for a year, maybe more.
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You could always move to Casper, Wyoming. No Barnes & Nobles and no Borders Books means you'd have to befriend Amazon.com hehe
Just think, you're not obsessed with reading, you're just doing all the reading that myself and many others don't apply themselves to do!
Why the friend request? I always get so insecure over them. Did you see something of mine that was "friend-worthy"? I'm curious!
Why did you buy (a) new book(s) as long as you haven't finished the "old" one? Sounds more like love to ownership than to literature....
Yeah, I swore off new books too.
But then you start in with the used bookstores and Library book sales etc.
Then you can find you are able to buy more with less.
My library holds an annual booksale every year, where the last two days you pay 2 bucks to fill up a plastic bag full of everything from dense hardcover textbooks to flimsy and trashy paperbacks.
$12 and some carefully organized bags later... whoa mama. I'm in like Flynt.
If I venture in a Border's, I won't leave without buying something.
I usually leave having to scurry to the bank going, "Oh shit oh shit I have to deposit money before my account balances! Shit! Why did the books have to be so enticing?!"
dammit stop being such a book worm
I know what you mean. I read 18 books last summer alone. Being at school I don't get to read as much but if I had the money I"d have a library by now. thanks for the add.
I love studying and just sitting around reading at Barnes and Nobles that I don't think I could ever ban myself from going there. But I guess if you give spend a lot more money than you would like...maybe it's a good thing. lol The library's always an option now. =)
Books are such a great thing when you make the time. You are an encouragement.
The time being saved is the time the author spends on discovering or earning which is then for the reader condensed to the actual time spent on reading their book with understanding.
Let me suggest the library or do a rummage sale with your books so that you can then buy more.
My first daughter would come home with books just jammed in her library bag every week. My other two children do not spend the same amount of time reading for some reason. Its hard to understand the reasons for the differences.
READ to your CHILDREN early.
Did your parents read to you when you were a child?
God Bless
The other option is the public library, but then you have the late fees, and the smelly people problem. But in my experience, it's only in big cities.
Hey, thanks for the friends request. Nice blog. I have this same problem. I don't read as much as you do in a year, maybe 20-25 books, not 33. I have no where to put them either but in a way I love that. I also have a problem of starting a book, finding another book that interest me, starting it, etc. In the end, I am usually reading about 4-5 books at a time. Anyway, thanks for the add!
Roger
I have too much trouble just keeping up with my Xanga subscriptions to read many books.
Just start letting people borrow them, and charge a dollar a week per book. You'll eventually make the money back. Or you can just sell them?
It won't work; once your friends have pegged you as a reader they give you books as gifts. I haven't bought a book for myself in two year (except textbook) and I still have a pile of books I need to read that friends have given to me. But being a reader is a better life than not being one.
Sounds like you've got quite the obsession.
half price and used bookstores are a godsend.
i have that same addiction, and most people tell me to go to the library. but i can't just borrow a book and give it back when i am finished. i highlight and underline my books (strange.)but yeah. half price book stores. you can get some there for 4 or 5 bucks each!I have always loved to read, i just don't find the time anymore and too much technology ie computer takes me away from it when i do have the time...i don't fall for the romancers i love a mystery~thanks for the add
My boyfriend has the same issue. He reads entirely too much. And books aren't cheap!
Do I know you somehow? I just got a random friend request from you...
Yeah, I'd be in serious trouble in a bookstore. That's why I just stick to the library. Even the library is a dangerous place for me to go. I always walk out with at least 5 books.