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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
I tried using an analogy in the hopes of making my point clear to you. Renting is not buying. Again, you have a photographic memory, and you can store books in your mental "library"; very few people have that advantage, and we need to have those books on hand if we want to read them again. Some people only read a book once; some read the covers off of it. If you're one of the former, then it makes sense to rent your books; if you're one of the latter, it makes sense to buy them. But in neither case is renting the same thing as buying.
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For a lot of us, we like to buy some books and rent/borrow others. It depends on whether we think a particular BOOK is worth having the covers read off it, not what type of person we are, I think.
Also, back from the days I was very frugal, I would just check my favorite books out of the library repeatedly until I read the covers off of it. I didn't actually OWN many of them until about 15 years later when I had the cash.