one can use the library or if available a good used bookstore to much budgetary contentment
Oh, absolutely. I've been getting to the point that any time someone refers to a book that sounds at all interesting, in LJ or on the Bujold list, I promptly pull up my library website and request it. I used to do it mainly through the local library's page - but then they put ILL requests online. So now I can ask for almost ANY book, online, immediately. Eventually they get around to getting it and calling me to tell me it's there. It's like a surprise package. I really need to get by the library, they have a new pile for me. I don't always get all of them read, but it's a nice way to poke through LOTS of books. If I like them enough, I may buy some of them. I recently have been going through SCADS of knitting books.
I get very gleeful about the whole thing. The library system is my puppet! Dance, puppet, dance! And bring me books!
VTX-1300. Honda's answer to the Harley Hawg.
fordprfct does jokingly refer to himself and Cherry as "almost half a ton of man and machine!"
No interest in a Harley, though. He quotes to me "98% of the Harley's ever made are still on the road today. The other 2% made it home."
And "doomed" as in "doomed to have me discuss what to name the bike, until it actually stuck and he seems to like it".
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Date: 2007-10-27 05:25 pm (UTC)Oh, absolutely. I've been getting to the point that any time someone refers to a book that sounds at all interesting, in LJ or on the Bujold list, I promptly pull up my library website and request it. I used to do it mainly through the local library's page - but then they put ILL requests online. So now I can ask for almost ANY book, online, immediately. Eventually they get around to getting it and calling me to tell me it's there. It's like a surprise package. I really need to get by the library, they have a new pile for me. I don't always get all of them read, but it's a nice way to poke through LOTS of books. If I like them enough, I may buy some of them. I recently have been going through SCADS of knitting books.
I get very gleeful about the whole thing. The library system is my puppet! Dance, puppet, dance! And bring me books!
VTX-1300. Honda's answer to the Harley Hawg.
No interest in a Harley, though. He quotes to me "98% of the Harley's ever made are still on the road today. The other 2% made it home."
And "doomed" as in "doomed to have me discuss what to name the bike, until it actually stuck and he seems to like it".