Title : Book Blogger Hop: Do You Buy All Your Books?
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Book Blogger Hop: Do You Buy All Your Books?
This week’s Book Blogger Hop asks if you, a. buy all your books and, b. If you keep them all and c. where you source them.
Okay. I have three(count ‘em!) floor to ceiling book cases in my home, plus dozens more piled all over the place. So, these days I am only buying physical books when I get a gift voucher or I really want them, but they just aren’t available in ebook or in my local library.
I used to buy and buy. These days, when I want a book I’ve heard about, I will check if my library has it. If not, I’ll look for it on Apple or Kindle. If I can’t find it then, I may go and buy it at the bookshop or order it on line. But only if I can’t get it any other way. I’m out of room!
I also get books for reviewing, mostly children’s and YA. Those are mostly donated to a school library or passed on to the younger members of my family if I think they might like them.
I source them mostly in my local library, in Apple Books or from publishers for reviewing. For classics,
I go to Project Gutenberg, which also has a lot of books you wouldn’t necessarily expect to find there, eg classic golden age SF whose copyright has expired.
The Baen Books web site has a page of freebies, for example old books by authors who are about to release a new one, or Golden Age books by authors who have passed away some time ago, eg Andre Norton. I get one now and then.
Prolific Works, formerly Instafreebie, has books whose authors are offering them free for a limited time to promote new ones. The deal is that you sign up for the author’s newsletter. I’ve only picked up a very few of those as, to my embarrassment, I haven’t read much of each of them - just greedy, I guess.
So, what about you? Do you still buy lots of physical books? Or have you discovered the joys of the library?
Okay. I have three(count ‘em!) floor to ceiling book cases in my home, plus dozens more piled all over the place. So, these days I am only buying physical books when I get a gift voucher or I really want them, but they just aren’t available in ebook or in my local library.
I used to buy and buy. These days, when I want a book I’ve heard about, I will check if my library has it. If not, I’ll look for it on Apple or Kindle. If I can’t find it then, I may go and buy it at the bookshop or order it on line. But only if I can’t get it any other way. I’m out of room!
I also get books for reviewing, mostly children’s and YA. Those are mostly donated to a school library or passed on to the younger members of my family if I think they might like them.
I source them mostly in my local library, in Apple Books or from publishers for reviewing. For classics,
I go to Project Gutenberg, which also has a lot of books you wouldn’t necessarily expect to find there, eg classic golden age SF whose copyright has expired.
The Baen Books web site has a page of freebies, for example old books by authors who are about to release a new one, or Golden Age books by authors who have passed away some time ago, eg Andre Norton. I get one now and then.
Prolific Works, formerly Instafreebie, has books whose authors are offering them free for a limited time to promote new ones. The deal is that you sign up for the author’s newsletter. I’ve only picked up a very few of those as, to my embarrassment, I haven’t read much of each of them - just greedy, I guess.
So, what about you? Do you still buy lots of physical books? Or have you discovered the joys of the library?
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