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The majority of my childhood reading was from the church or public libraries, so owning books isn't part of my roots.
I spent my college years working in the library. Then a few years at a publishing house and bookstore, where I did get a bit of collecting bug. 9 moves involving 22 Waldenbooks cases cured me of that.
A healthy tech habit introduced me to Palm's Peanut Reader store and I shifted collecting to digital. The 22 cases of books are long gone.
And now I don't even collect ebooks. I've heavily culled my Calibre library of most freebies, and even many paid books I've passed over. I get the majority of my reading from Overdrive libraries.
My children prefer the physical versions, so we still visit the library and have many books in the house (including a complete World Book encyclopedia!), but they are used and loved, not "displayed."
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