I can’t stop buying books!

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Help!

I picked up a huge stack in Asda for my holiday, which I then started to read.

Then I got some more on Amazon, which I’ve broken into.

Then I got even more in Asda today! I just can’t help myself! I’ve read five in five days!

World of Books (WOB). Huge selection of second hand books, free delivery.

I read a lot of books, say 2 a week, so decided to get Kindlebooks, I love it, if you download a book and I don’t like it, I just browse for another. I refuse to pay £15 for a hardback book or £10 for paperback.

YANBU since you are reading them. I buy some, borrow some, am gifted some and listen to some on subscription. Couldn't live without books tbh.

There are many worse habits!! 😂. Better to binge on books than booze. Although there is a bookshop in Ghent called Books & Booze!

What an odd thing to comment. OP has bought 2 stacks of books at Asda, so to her, they are decent books. To call some books and authors proper is nothing but snobbery; let people enjoy what they enjoy.
For someone so well-read, you'd think you'd know that it's cheap as chips, not cheep as chips.

No need to be elitist! They carry some really good ones.

I do need to get back into my kindle!

This was me a couple of years ago! I have had to buy two bookcases!

Get thee a library card! And if your kindle ever breaks, get a kobo - you can get library ebooks on the kobo.

Lots of lovely books all for free, and much less wasteful.

There’s definitely an element of being somewhat argumentative for the sake of it on this thread! Buying and reading books is fairly benign when all is said and done.

I think someone (maybe the OP) has said that their library doesn't get new releases for ages so that is why they buy books instead.

I’ve just bought 5 kindle books for just under a fiver! I used to read all the time but then had children and just stopped. Even once they were older I didn’t go back to it but this year I decided I would set myself a reading goal and now I’m back to devouring books! Almost hit my goal and still have months to go.

What a snobby comment. I buy and read loads of books but a German classic translated into English sounds dead boring. I’d rather have a good crime thriller thanks!

And - I know I’m risking MN wrath here but despite being an avid reader I don’t like my library much. It’s rarely open and it’s a pain returning books. I don’t bother taking my children to the library either.

I have Kindle unlimited. A bargain as I devour books in a couple of days.

Yeah, it was. It’s a tiny small town library that caters (god bless them) to the main demographic of the town. It’s an older town and they definitely have different reading habits to me. I love romantasy and they don’t carry any!

Yeah the fact it’s never open outside of 10-3 Monday to Friday doesn’t help

I have this disease too. Not found a cure for it though.

And it does sound as though you are making your way through them - enjoy!

Do you have any Little Free Libraries near you? https://communityclothing.co.uk/pages/our-story I always have a look when I go past -; have sometimes even found almost new recent hardbacks. Also you can download loads free from Gutenberg Project - not just the well known classics either.

I think they wouldn't be able to handle some of the spicy parts either 😱😂

There’s a meme I keep seeing lately but I can’t find it again but it said something like

Unfortunately I have a genetic condition which means I can’t produce books on my own so I have to supplement.

I see lots of suffer from this condition

Re small/ underwhelming local libraries:

Libraries are often part of a network of local libraries in the same borough/county. Using their app you can request any book in the whole network and they will send it to your local library for you to collect. There is sometimes a small charge for this but much less than the cost of a book. You also get access to the whole borough’s ebook collection.

I don’t know if this is the case for every borough but it is for mine.

I am not elitist. I am referring to chick-lit, aka Maupassant, Balsac, Flaubert, etc.etc. This is basically chick-lit with benefits of learning a few things on top, that is all.
Schopenhauer, Kant, Marx, Kafka - perish the thought, was not even thinking that.

We have a box of books for the family we've bought to take on holiday, just as well we're driving... There will be days that are light on activity, so the kids can read. They're cheaper than another day at a visitor attraction.

Someone has to keep the economy going..Good work, OP :)