Do you buy or borrow your books?

I can't read fast enough for the library (I would have to renew at LEAST once), so I buy my books. But I buy them at thrift stores and used book sales or on half.com used. I used to not believe in getting rid of books, but I think I'm going to have to start listing some of mine on half.com!

i used to hang out at powerbooks a lot because they allowed you to read the books even if you didn't plan to buy them, mainly because I didn't have money. But i'd buy my books if i could afford them.

I usually buy books, if someone recommends one I'll go to the book store before the library unless I have zero money. If someone loans me a book and I like it I will also go buy it to add to my collection. I am very careful about loaning out books though because over the years I've had 2 very valued to me and difficult to find books not be returned.

I love reading books. I have my own collection of books that are special to me in some way. These are often novels that I loved reading. I have travel books too. However these can get out of date. I buy these for trips and get rid of them when they get too old. Apart form travel books I don't buy new books very often unless it is just something I will want to keep in my book collection forever. I don't mind if books have a hord or a soft cover. I go to my local library every week. They let each person borrow up to 20 books. I feel this is a wonderful way of reading without buying lots of books.

There's a charge at my local library for borrowing books and as I read so many of them, it would cost me a fortune to borrow them. I usually get them for Christmas and birthday presents from my family and then we swap them around. I don't collect them as they would take up too much space. If nobody wants them after I have finished reading them, I usually post them on a website that my daughter has set up for recycling. Somebody is always glad to take them off my hands.

mostly i buy books so that i need not worry about returning it within the specific time limit.

Buying and borrowing books is such a waste of time. Ebooks is my first choice. "Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content."

I go alot to the library and borrow books, I only buy books if I know that I'm going to read them. For ex the Harry Porrter series and the Lord of the rings books

I haven't been to a library in years! Haha...it's not that I don't like them, but I usually like to own and collect books, so I usually buy a book that I want to read. I am a sucker for bookstores, and I love going shopping for books!

I am terrible at returning books to the library so I have stopped using them. I normally go to a shop called Book World which sells that permanently reduced prices on the RRP. I used to work next door to one though so when I go in the the guy normally gives me 3 books for £10 or whatever. It is one of these shops that constantly say it is having a closing down sale adn then it closes for 2 days while it restocks and then opens again. My mum is also an avid reader so I get books off her too. I do hand out alot of books to people too as I havej a tiny bedroom and probably over 100 books. I sometimes donate them to charity afterwards. Check out that website at http://www.bbwbooks.co.uk *****oh no, how sad!!! I just went to their webside and they have went into liquidation so I imagine they will really b e closing down. I better get myself in there and buy very book I have ever thought of as they really are the cheapest in my city.

well my father was a litrature teacher and we had and still have alote of books in our house i also did go and take books from a library when i was a child and bought new ones at the store now i do not read much:( but i do tend to barow books from my friends and they are barrowing books from me.

i usually buy books that interest me and worth keeping but sometimes i can see books that can caught my attention so i tend to borrow the said books either from the library or from my friends.

i also like to read books, and also borrow books from university library. just like you, when i buy books, i like to buy the hardbounds, that only happen when the book is my favorite.

i'm bad, i do not buy neither do i borrow nor do i read books. the most amount of reading i do is reading the newspapers and online articles. i've limited myself to only do book reading regarding my schoolwork and textbooks. otherwise, my pc is my companion. i know it's pretty bad, but i still do have the reading habit. i guess it doesn't matter where you read, as long as you're reading?

We used to buy books, but since we are on a limited budget right now, we mostly just borrow them from the library. Books we bought were usually ones that we read over and over again.

I usually only buy reference books because those are the ones you can always go back to. As for just regular books, I usually check those out from the local library. I usually only read a book once anyway so, why hold on to it?? I enjoy reading as much as the next person, but my condo can only hold so much stuff! :)

I use to only buy books, and I use to spend quite a bit of money on them. I realized after a couple of moves,lugging those heavy boxes around that I don't need to own every book I read. Now that my library lets you reserve books online & pick them up right at the desk it's so easy to use the library. I pick out a few books at a time that interest me, and when I really love one,I purchase it at the bookstore and add it to my collection.

I am not a collector of book and I do not read very much, thus I usually borrow book from the library, but in the past few years, I did not goes to the library very often, I tend to read more on the internet.

I love to have books. I usually buy my books second hand, paperback always. If it is an educational book that I need I will buy it brand new. If it is a book that I have been absolutely DYING to read and it just came out I will borrow it from the library in hardcover and then buy it later as a paperback.

I would sometimes just borrow so as not to spend money anymore. But I'd often just buy so I won't have to remind myself on returning back the books I've borrowed =) It's nice also to have a collection of your own, it's one of my hobbies.