h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

You really think you are something special don't you Hoovooloo?

You are definitely the Sheldon of hootoo though and come across as having absolutely no humour and no empathy.

Guys/Gals, can we stick to the thread topic please?

I've been having another look at Kindles or equivalents, whereas I don't want to replace all the books I currently have, and I don't buy many new books, this thread has got me thinking about getting something as an ongoing thing for the future.

But are they going to come down in price before I've made the savings over buying the hardbacks/paperbacks I do buy? Or will I end up out of pocket?

I think that given there's so few books that are any cheaper, that I'm likely to buy, then it would purely be the convenience part of having one. But I don't find paperbacks inconvenient.

I find the key point for me is space. We have a lot of books and we can't fit in a two bedroom house. This means we have to rent a three bedroom house, when I think of the extra rent we spend each year on book space that's really quite disturbing. If I continue buying books we'll need a four bedroom house. I'm a member of two book groups, so I have to buy two books a month which I probably wouldn't otherwise read. I do have a policy to buy on kindle if available, but in paper if not.

Though I have brought the new Hilary Mantel book in paper, because I've got the hardback of her first book and it would be nice to have the set. (They're amazing: go read them!)

"You are definitely the Sheldon of hootoo though and come across as having absolutely no humour "

Let me see if I've got this straight...

You're trying to be insulting... by comparing me to a fictional Nobel-candidate-level genius who is the most popular character on a comedy show. (You DO realise TBBT is a *comedy* show, right?)

You've not really got the hang of this, have you?

"the Sheldon of hootoo "? Really? I'm flattered. I really am.

Okay, I could probably look this up somewhere but it is more fun to ask you all here:

Do you have libraries where you live?

I do, but I've never actually been in it. Or rather, I've been in it but never borrowed anything from it because anything they had that I wanted to read, I had as well.

do what I did, Pastey: receive a Kindle as a present (while you'Re still making up your mind if you really want one or not) and then every saving you make on the eBook is a saving because you didn't pay for the machine (works as well if you filch one... )

Or, do as I do, and don't buy any full priced books. My Kindle cost, I think, EUR 189. I have about 70 books on it, of which about 7 were totally free of charge. The others all cost between 0.99cents and 1.19 cents (and generally show a saving of EUR 4 or so over the regular eBook price). Using that calculation I've saved around EUR 252 in the 11 months I've had the beast (oh, subtract EUR 20 from that saving - I bought a steampunk sticker thing for it)

I have a library within a mile or two of where I live... but I've never been in it.

In fact I've not been in a library since I got my first "proper" job after university (2.5 years after university, but that's another story). As soon as I could afford to buy books AND food, I stopped going in them.

There are a couple of libraries around here but, like others, I've not used one since I could afford to buy books. Oh yes, and since I had a computer at home, which was the other service I used them for.
I sometimes think of the usefulness of a library to me, but I *like* owning books. When I was a child, books were often what I saved up my pocket money for, and it's left me with the attitude that owning a book is a wonderful thing, a special treat, even if I can now afford to buy books easily, and will go on to not read it more than once.
Having said all that, Manchester Central Library is a wonderful building which I continue to admire greatly, and I often try to bring visitors to Manchester there as a 'sight worth seeing'. Sadly, it's closed right now for renovation of some kind, but I hope it will be open again before too long.

If you don't come, they will destroy it.

(I don't know what tocall it either, Hoo, but that is my try at it)

Two comments:

I'm following this thread because I do almost no reading nowayears, think I should do something about it and think perhaps a reader would do the trick.

The other thing:
Libraries. Have a look at this
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I'm sure Bluebottle would appreciate a comment or two