With no exceptions I can think of, books fall into two categories for me:
Books I would like to read once and then not read again. (There are millions of these.)
Books I would like to have on my bookshelf forever and ever amen. (There are about 180 of these. They aren't always the same 180, as I get older.)
I don't read near as many of the first kind of books as I would like, a bit because I don't want to pay for them, but mostly because I don't want to keep accumulating books I have no intention of reading again and then have to figure out how to get rid of them (this keeps happening anyway, but, you know, I'd like to have it happen less). The kind of service you suggest would be ideal.
I'm amused that you don't have a category of "Books I don't want to read" :) Not even a Spice Girls autobiography, or The Complete Guide to Programming in Fortran 1.5?
I agree, though. I'm happy to read many books once and let them go; I have no particular interest in having such books on my shelves. And there are other books I read and want to have a copy of, perhaps to reread, but primarily to be able to let others like our bibliophibian daughter read :)
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Books I would like to read once and then not read again. (There are millions of these.)
Books I would like to have on my bookshelf forever and ever amen. (There are about 180 of these. They aren't always the same 180, as I get older.)
I don't read near as many of the first kind of books as I would like, a bit because I don't want to pay for them, but mostly because I don't want to keep accumulating books I have no intention of reading again and then have to figure out how to get rid of them (this keeps happening anyway, but, you know, I'd like to have it happen less). The kind of service you suggest would be ideal.
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I agree, though. I'm happy to read many books once and let them go; I have no particular interest in having such books on my shelves. And there are other books I read and want to have a copy of, perhaps to reread, but primarily to be able to let others like our bibliophibian daughter read :)