tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13140037.post116014107124584532..comments2023-10-31T16:37:29.340+00:00Comments on A Salted: The library.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00597852661913928616noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13140037.post-64845922861822644192006-11-21T22:30:00.000+00:002006-11-21T22:30:00.000+00:00Oh heavens, I love your blog! I'm sorry I've never...Oh heavens, I love your blog! I'm sorry I've never noticed your link in your Life Itself sig before.<br /><br />Now, you have to think about a library in a very different way than a book shop. I don't like to buy books, because I want to be reading constantly and have other places to use the money. So I visit libraries a lot and I simply look at what's there, rather than having any particular idea of what I'm after. <br /><br />I end up trying things I might never have considered by reading the reviews, and not just the new stuff that's all glossily displayed in a 3 for 2 in Waterstone's. In fact, knowing you don't have to pay for the experience will make you much more free in your choices.<br /><br />Only Jon Ronson and Mil Millington are guaranteed to be bought new on the day of release and aside from that if there's something I really want I put it in my Amazon wish list and stare a it for about a year until someone's selling it for 5p in Marketplace. <br /><br />Actually my reading habits are not good for the publishing industry. Nor for bookshops. I buy books at the supermarket, too. I do feel guilty sometimes, but who buys something at full price when they don't have to?<br /><br />You could use Amazon Marketplace, you know, but I suppose that still doesn't help you with the cleanliness thing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13140037.post-1160389841800222232006-10-09T11:30:00.000+01:002006-10-09T11:30:00.000+01:00I know a good many former employees of the very ch...I know a good many former employees of the very chain you work for. Most of them seem to have left because it got more difficult to steal vast amounts of books. <BR/><BR/>I'm very funny about second hand books too, but I like libraries. Previously used reference books are OK, but I prefer my fiction to be spanking new.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13140037.post-1160166411157009082006-10-06T21:26:00.000+01:002006-10-06T21:26:00.000+01:00I absolutely can't STAND second hand books...i ima...I absolutely can't STAND second hand books...i imagine flakes of the previous owners skin flying down my throat the second i open them to look, and they always seem damp, and thusly enlarged and engorged in a way that books shouldn't be...like when you take a book, all new and pristine, down to a caravan in cornwall, and then when you wake up the next morning it's three times the size, damp moistened and primed for the growth of mushrooms.<BR/>MAAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com