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Originally Posted by crich70
Touche. I don't know what the library system was like here in the Midwest US back then. I imagine it was also a bit of a status symbol though to be able to say you had your own copy of author x's book and that you had finished it. Much like we today pride ourselves on having a particular type of car or a certain size of flat screen TV. People don't change much.  |
It was because libraries were the main buyers of books at that time that most novels were published in several volumes (typically 2 or 3 volumes). That way, when a library bought one copy of a book in, say, three volumes, it meant that three readers could read it simultaneously.