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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
Is this something the rest of you do? Usually you'd have to find something like this in a used book store, but with e-books they are suddenly easy to get hold of.
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I have read most of stuff that my parents have read. It was easy. I was voracious reader, and when I ran out of stuff to read I simply picked stuff from our modest bookcase at home.
Can you image the horror of running out of library books to read Saturday evening with a bookless Sunday looming on the horizon ;-). I couldn't wait till Monday afternoon so I could pick up new books at the Library.
Very soon, however, the situation reversed. My father started to read books that I kept bringing home from the library. He never went to the library to get his own stuff, so he often ended up reading my books. My parents used to read much less than I did, so he had no problem picking a book to read among heaps of books I was bringing home all the time. I even had a special written permission to get non-kiddie (I am trying to avoid word adult, as it means something different nowadays) books at the library (mostly detective books) saying I was bringing them home for father. I have read them all too ;-), it was just librarians trying to steer me towards selection that was ... aehm ... appropriate for my age. Phew!