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Originally Posted by kazbates
For full disclosure: I'm not one to lend any form of books. Whenever I have done, they haven't come back to me in the same condition in which I lent them.  And in some cases, they've never come back at all!  |
I stopped lending books too for the same reasons as you. Now I either give the book away (if it is one I do not want to keep) or purchase copies of the book to give away (if it is a fabulous book).
To respond to the original topic of this thread, I've read many of David Baldacci's books and, while his books are entertaining, I would never pay more than about $9 for them. I consider them "throw aways" - books I read and then promptly pass on to others, give away or throw away. Unfortunately, the only thing I can do with one of those electronic DRMed books is throw it away (delete it from my devices), so even $9 is too much for those books. I think Mr. Baldacci thinks more of his books than I do.