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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
I do like owning the books. My favorite "reading habit" is to buy a book and hoard it for a while. In the past this meant having a stack of the "can't wait to read" books. It was usually 3 to 5 high. And I just LOVED having it there because I knew every single book in that stack was going to be special. I'd read other books for a few weeks before dipping into the special pile.
I still do the same thing although some of the books are now on the Kindle. It's not quite the same because I don't get to peek at the covers like I do with the "stack."
I don't mind borrowing from the library, but I feel a bit forced to read them because of the due date. Since I don't have the money to buy every single book I want, I do use the library quite extensively. But if I had my druthers, I'd have my hoard stack. Waiting. With The Most Excellent Selection.
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I am a smidge like that. I generally will not read books by my favorite authors back to back, because I do not want to run out. ( a lot of my favorite authors are deceased nfortunately
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I do not have to own them though. I can wait for them from the library or buy them when I want them. If they are going to take a long time fromthe library, then I can say that the library is hoarding them for me and if I want a book enough to reserve it you can be sure I will have read it within a day or two of receiving it
With me it is the thrill or comfort or overall enjoyment I experience and I am pretty sure ownership has nothing to do with it. But I have known people who would stroke or pat or gaze admiringly at a book they bought for days or weeks before even opening it, and I had a friend who would borrow the book from the library to read rather than actually get finger prints on her copy, and woe to those who dare to touch her books. Not a collector thing I don't think, just she loved the look of an unopened (virgin) book
Helen