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Originally Posted by issybird
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.
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I am VERY lucky that my local library is 1 - the best in the state and 2 - almost always has what I am looking for. If my local public doesn't have it, I just use my alumni privileges at the UNC Libraries and they can find almost anything.
My wife is the one who really buys books in our house, and they are usually DTBs. Even with her buying habits, my print TBR only went up a cumulative nine volumes this year. My audio TBR decreased by a net of 33 and my ebook TBR dropped by a net of 36.