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Originally Posted by Tarana
I wish libraries carried either of my favorite genres (scifi & fantasy) in larger numbers in either ebook or audiobook, but they don't, so buying is my only option.
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I feel that way about the dearth of my favorite genres at the libraries, too; I wonder if it's universal? It seems to me that the library offerings are overwhelmingly romance, mystery, chicklit and popular fiction, celebrity bios and memoirs, and yes, scifi and fantasy. Relatively little history, literary fiction and fiction in translation.
I've noticed this year that my reading has been chugging along at one third borrowed, one third bought or public domain, and one third audio (where I don't distinguish between borrowed and bought, but I know it skews heavily to borrowed). I can get along for a long time on what I bought during the Kobocalypse days and cherry picking the occasional current deal or something I just really want to read
now. I admit the beauty of my likes is that there's little pressure to stay current; I'm not waiting on the latest releases by favorite authors at all, which helps a whole lot in keeping costs to a minimum.