The internet has definitely helped us here. My partner and I are both big fans of the hard copy books. We never buy new. We are always looking through yard sales, second hand stores, used book stores, or wherever we think we might find any.
We're beginning to think we are opposites of the norm lately. We are actually going to build a large set of shelves to hold our present library of a couple of hundred books and the shelves will have room for more. We are lucky here. We have room to do that. In fact we feel the library will be in keeping with the original use of the building. It was built as a school just before 1900 and stopped being a school in 1960. Two large rooms 30 feet square with 12 foot high ceilings add to that character.
Ebooks for us, for now anyway, are only for books that are out of reach to us maybe for costs, rarity, etc. For those reasons, we are thankful for e versions. Other than that, it's the real thing. Yeah, I know, there's something wrong with us. But we kinda like being the ones out of place sometimes.
