Booking Through Thursday

I’ve asked, in the past, about whether you more often buy your books, or get them from libraries. What I want to know today, is, WHY BUY?

Even if you are a die-hard fan of the public library system, I’m betting you have at least ONE permanent resident of your bookshelves in your house. I’m betting that no real book-lover can go through life without owning at least one book. So … why that one? What made you buy the books that you actually own, even though your usual preference is to borrow and return them?

If you usually buy your books, tell me why. Why buy instead of borrow? Why shell out your hard-earned dollars for something you could get for free?

I have those I swap, lend, and borrow. However, I also have my keeper books. Books that are special to me, whether given by someone or autographed. Something that created a special time in my life that I associate with that book. Then there are the books that I clutch close to my chest because they are filled with favorite worlds, characters and situations that I want to go back and re-visit time to time. They may sit there a year or two, but eventually, I will go back and re-read them.