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Originally Posted by issybird
I suspect some of us were both; library rats and avid acquirers. I certainly was! Every option to make sure there was always a selection of unread books on hand, and that’s in addition to the sheer pleasure of scrutinizing shelves in the endlessly interesting process of discovery. I still miss it, in a way; I’m virtually all digital now*, but scrolling web listings doesn’t provide the same visceral satisfaction as real book shelves did.
*I’m reading a real book now as I balked at paying the ebook price, but it’s a struggle. And there are some books where real is still the only option.
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I live in a small town whose library has never had a large selection of books I liked to read. Sci-Fi, and Historical Fiction to name two. We also only had one retail book store by the college. They also did not have a large selection of fiction. I frequented used book stores and any place that had a rack of books. I even drove up to two hours away to check out book stores.
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