I don’t return my books on time. Seriously. Sad I know.
Those who don’t use the public library: What’s the main reason?
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I don’t return my books on time. Seriously. Sad I know.
I love brand new books. They just feel great. I love the thrill of opening it for the first time and reading what is inside. Also, I have a beautiful library in my house and it is well stocked. Pax-C
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I don’t return my books on time. Seriously. Sad I know.
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No public library here.
TW K
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A good book is a treasure. I like to keep my treasures.
Also, I am completely incapable of choosing just one book that I want to read. One of the things that keeps me reading is having a large selection of books to chose from in my own home. Sometimes I’ll grab a book to read, and then I’ll get something to eat before I start it, and by the time I get back I want to read a different book. Or sometimes I’ll go to the book store and by the time I get home I don’t feel like reading that book. Today I bought four books. It might take me anywhere from 1 week to 1 year to read them – just depends on how I feel.
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I prefer to read e-books.
~Tia
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My favorite thing to buy for myself is a good book. I have a library that is overflowing with books, and yet there’s always another one I want. I like the fact that I have a choice of books to read at any time of day or night right in my own home.
However, there could be other reasons people don’t go to the library. For instance, some people don’t have a public library close to them. If that’s the case, it would be easier to either buy a book or read a public domain book online.
I still think the public library system is a wonderful institution. It allows you to read books of every kind even if you don’t have the money to continually buy books.
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I don’t because I have a really great used bookstore in my town. You can get almost any book for less than a dollar. When the books are that cheap, you may as well own them eh?
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The public libraries in my locale are about as useful as our public transport system. When you figure that I get several gift cards per year to various chain book stores that will have what I’m looking for, (1/2 Price Books is the way to go!) the cost and effort of going to the Central Library in downtown, (gas, time, parking,) and the cost of returning borrowed books, (again, gas, time parking,) it’s far less expensive to use Amazon, go to the bookstore, than it is to use the public library for me.
Owning the book allows me to read it at any rate I desire, without having to go back and recheck it, keep it in my book case as my own reference, or re-read it when I feel like it without having to make a trip from one library to another to find it.
Soft covers at $10 each and getting to keep them for as long as I want seems to make more sense to me than a gallon of gas each way, paying for an hour of parking, and precisely the same expenditure on the trip to return the books. I’d need several books, for several weeks at a time, to make that a worthy expenditure.
Since it can take me 3 weeks to read a book sometimes, depending on what’s going on in my life, you treble the cost if I have to go re-check the book.
By owning, rather than borrowing the book, I can re-read it or dig something out of it that I needed to know rather than hunting it down again after I’ve returned it to the public library. I can find it if I’m up in the middle of the night, when the library is closed, or in the middle of rush hour traffic when I’m home.
I think public libraries are an excellent way for children and budget limited to study, just read, but I already recieve so many gift cards every year, and my campus’ library is already part of my tuition, (which is where I’m already going most nights,) if there’s a book I want, it’s basically free to use the cards when you consider the convenience or make 15 minutes of extra time to raid the stacks.
DGI
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One of the main reasons why I don’t use the library very often is that the books there are of no certain interest to me. And my local library is poorly stocked. They don’t have the books I want to read and have heard of. I go into every single section to see if I can find a decent book.
There are some books that I take and read but they aren’t as good as I would have hoped. Some books there are just so bad it makes me cringe. And everything in unorganised.
It is sad but true: libraries are not what people make them out to be.
Also, many libraries in my area close very early so I can’t go in the evenings but I have to get there before five and I am only free usually from four thirty so half an hour in a library isn’t enough for me.
Another reason is that I just love touching new books. It feels weird but reminds me of my dream to be a published author one day. I love old ancient books even more but I have many of them at home so I don’t feel the need to get them from the library.
And another reason is that I like having books that I like to myself so if I find a good book I have to own it and if I don’t own it I feel empty and incomplete.
I may sound sad and pathetic if you are reading this but it’s all true to me. And because my library is too quite and we can’t take food or drink in so I have to go to the library first and then a coffee shop or something to get a drink. And I like being around books when I have a frappucino from Starbucks!
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Inconvenience! I love reading, but at points in my life, due to either work or home events, I don’t have the time to devote. Some books take me only a day to read, some take weeks but all due to the time I can devote to the story.
I find that library deadlines leave me panicking to finish a novel and the late fees when I do not succeed… Well, let’s just say that it is more convenient for me to buy the book from the store and read it on my own terms than on those of the library.
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