| physical copies > digital ones So yes, I always buy books. Sadly I don't always buy manga, but I plan to own a lot more in the future. It's also my dream to have my own small library/collection of books, manga and light novel in the future. |
| Books really lost its value nowadays but it still fun and interesting to read. Depend on the books, you can freely exploring a new imagination worlds |
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| I do. Most libraries don't have the books I look for and I like having a collection |
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| I prefer owning the things that I love. Thus, my huge manga and book collection. |
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| Sorry I don't believe in libraries. They have a very limited selection. |
| "Move as swiftly as the wind" "Stay as silent as the forest" "Strike as fierce as the fire" "Undefeated like the mountain" |
Bobby2Hands said: My local library has a pretty limited selection. Plus I like to own a copy because I'm one of those weirdos that enjoys filling up a bookshelf. Same. I like owning things, in general. I don't want to entrust my book and media collection to third parties. |
| In my opinion that's the only way to enjoy books (excluding manga) |
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| I have purchased many this year. So I would say it is true. Personally I would rather hold the book then read it off my ipad. |
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| Yeah, I still do. I prefer reading and holding a physical book rather than an eBook. The smell of the book's pages is what gets me going |
| I buy books now and then. I actually like having the physical book over just reading it on an electronic device. |
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| OP must have an amazing library. My library experience was always looking through their catalog and finding out that I have to drive 2-3 hours to get to a library with the book I'm looking for. Also, the opportunity cost (time + gas) for even the nearest library is much higher than the cost of picking up an interesting book from work at the end of my shift. And I can read an owned book whenever I want and at whatever pace I want rather than being limited by when and for how long I can check the book out from the library. |
| Ever since my late discovery of the Internet, I've deserted my hardcore habit of tearing through multiple books on a weekly basis. Man I used to be a hard reader. I still love being able to go to the book store and take in the wonderful smell of fresh paper and ink and getting the same smell back at home on my couch about to go into a new book, it's just not as often. |
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| i love books. I love buying them, filling up my shelves with books, I only buy books that I've already read and really enjoyed. |
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| Why not? Being able to hold the real thing makes you feel blessed. As much as I do read novels and manga online, I sometimes do prefer to have a hard copy of it so that I could read them again and again whenever I wanted to. |
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| Ah yeah i've been getting back into buying stuff lately. Having a hard copy is awesome. And you support the market which is good ;) |
| I CELEBRATE myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. |
| For god's sake, Yes!!. people do buy light novels and novels are considered books. |
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| I don't buy them often but I find it pretty normal that people keep buying books. If it's one that I really find interesting I'd definitely prefer having a physical copy rather than one found on the internet. Same with mangas but it's not easy to buy them in my country. |
| buying books is nice! it feels like a reward for myself, and i can read it at my own pace. |
Korilakkumi said: My husband buys books (physical copies and audio books) so he can take them on deployment. Our library just has old, boring books- I kind of stopped reading actual non-manga books years ago. This. I did a Navy deployment in 2013 and I was constantly ordering new books off Amazon. The ship had a library, but with the exception of Harry Potter, almost every book was about US Naval history. In 9.5 months I read over 30 books, and all of my storage space was full of more books that I hadn't gotten to yet (I shipped the ones I had already read home to make room to order more books). |
| Yeah, I buy books, I like filling up book shelves. |
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| Plenty of people still buy books. I like owning a physical copy of a book to keep by my side. One book I'd love to own physically is American Psycho. |
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| Yes, I like buying books. In fact, most of my money goes on books (+ cinema). |
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| Sometimes I get both digital and paper of the same book. Most of my books are religious in nature, and I use them for study and need to reference them all of the time. I do add them into my Logos program and index them, so I can do word studies, and other tools. But I do really love owning good quality reference books. And all my church books, if there is no more computers one day, or no more electricity, I can still survive and keep the church going. And I do like touching a new book, smelling it, and like the look of my bookcase when a new book is put in ( and I have to retire one or somehow make room for it..) |
| idk about you but the closer a girl gets to looking like ronald mcdonald, the more aroused i become. CAV where can we cast our eyes to @PoruMairu who thinks of himself a member of the true church. Helion. |
| Typically I will go to the library to find authors/books I'm not familiar with. Then if I happen to stumble upon something I greatly enjoyed I will go out and purchase it. There are also a few authors that I enjoy to the extent I purchase most (or all) of their new releases as they come out. |
| Libraries here are shit. Nothing good enough to read. I buy my own books. It's better because I like to take my time rather than hurrying through it. |
| They have no manga near where I live unless they cost 30 dollars per manga, so... it's best to buy things like that online. And I'd have to buy yaoi only online, too. I agree, the public library exists for a reason. |
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| I love owning physicial copies of the books I enjoy, plus I love the atmosphere they add to my room as I fill the shelves with more and more books. |
| There is something about having a book that's organic. Something that says "it's there". You can hold it, you can smell the pages, etc. If it's in digital format, I'll forget I even have it. Plus I never have to worry about the batteries on a book going bad. |
| What if the Hokey Pokey is what it is all about? |
| I love books! Give me a Barnes and Noble gift card; I will be a super-happy girl. XD |
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| I bought some manga recently but I don't really buy books normally. I'm not that interested. I would like to get into writing tho... |
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| I still buy books... The library only has so much. I've spent up to a hundred dollars on a book before. |
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| Hell yeah I still buy books, if I am really interested in some of them or if I have read them in the past and I want to own them. You can read them as many times as you like and physical copies are infinitely better. |
| Yes. Books are useful as bludgeoning weapons, in the case that carrying guns/blades is illegal in your country. |
| Be thankful for the wisdom granted to you. |
| Why not? Books are special, they are not something you use and throw away. |
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Sherlupin said: Free borrowing at the local library = master race. Only plebs still leave their comfy room in the current year and read physical books. book-torrenting masterrace reporting in |
| I buy physically books because I don't like to be rushed to read a book especially if I'm having a busy week and I just love to own things that I like instead of borrowing it. |
| Let’s say I posed this question to you: “Can all human souls be bought with money or not?” Now remember, the keyword here is “all”. The answer is “There are times when you can buy them, and other times, not,” right? The human being… sometimes he’ll uphold his pride and conscience even if he’s offered ten billion yen, and other times he’ll murder someone over one yen. ~Izaya Ohira (Durarara) |
| I guess for me they are mostly for stetic, then it's reading. |
| Today they say you're crazy, tomorrow they will say you're a genious. |
| up until a few years ago books used to be my favorite thing to buy and filling up my bookshelf was one of my life goals now I'm too poor not to mention I had a tendency to buy books that I only read one chapter of then never picked up again thus wasting money so I "read" audiobooks on youtube now |
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| The only books I typically buy are Manga. I have regular novels, but most of them were given to me for free. The rest were bought in a second hand shop for very cheap. |
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| I haven't bought books since a while ago, but I remember snorting new books pages as if they were drugs or something lol I prefer physical format, because reading on a ebook reader is uncomfortable for me. |
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I don't recall ever mentioning e-books... |
| I do both. I am the master race. Books do furnish a room. |
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| I do love buying books and I don't regret it. It's nice to have a personal collection of books in your house, your own mini-library, a bookshelf which you can expand. Also convenient to revisit the books you really enjoyed, whenever the hell you feel like it. I use public library mostly for my paper works, to find more information, expand my research, etc. |
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| Oh man, I haven't been to a library in ages. Anyway, I usually only buy books I know for certain I want to keep. Plus, I like owning stuff. :) |
| "Lol but why are you still buying books you plebs when there's 20 libraries in Paris?" ^The reason why the rest of the world hates parisians. Yes, I love buying books. I like to read even when there's a lot of text and no chinese drawings, and I like to give good books too. I bought some of my favorites 3 times or more. Clawds said: I only buy books that I've already read and really enjoyed. Nice strategy, that's what I do with anime (it's expensive :'c) |
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