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My problem with library books is that the wait lists are usually hopeless. Now it's true, I only belong to one, provincial-wide, library, but my goodness, a wait list of 127 users for 4 copies of a book? I might not live that long! OK, I admit, it was Hadfield's book released just after he returned to earth. But even a Giller-nominated book, there are currently 18 people waiting for a single copy. That's 54 weeks if I were to get on the list now. (I admit, I was smart enough to go immediately to the library site the moment the list was released and get on the wait list for the only one that interested me. At that, I was still 6th on the list -- 18 weeks out...)
While I think it's important that a book be available from libraries, it's really not a solution for folks to read it for a book club discussion. People have to be able to commit to reading books that they're going to have to buy. Thus my insistence on inexpensive.
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