Friday Pointless Poll, Book Dealer Edition

[jeriendhal]

[Poll #1392940]

Comments

[kodi]

(But the only books that I bought anywhere apart from a used bookstore where books for school.)

[allah-sulu.livejournal.com]

Also for the second question: used books sold by libraries.

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

"11+" is your highest category? Hell, I bought more than that last weekend.

[pmrabble.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that 11+ gave me a boggle too. Then I decided I didn't even want to guess how many I had bought last year, so we'll leave it at that!

[mehhayperson.livejournal.com]

I ticked two boxes, since I wasn't sure if schoolbooks count. If they do it's easily over 11, otherwise probably between 4-6.

Actually, no it's not, it's 7-10. Shit.

[bright-lilim.livejournal.com]

I get my books from Fictionwise.com, Finnish on-line bookstores, and a few from supermarkets.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

... I love your icon.

[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

You don't have enough choices. I buy lots of books online, but not from Amazon or e-bay. I also buy a fair number for library book sales.

[wyldemusick.livejournal.com]

I go to the Friends Of The Pima Library book sales three times a year, with a friend (sometimes I'll go a couple of times during the selling period.) Each of those trips results in several feet of books, as well as audiobooks. I'm now so backlogged in my reading that it's unlikely I'll actually catch up.

[lacousteau.livejournal.com]

Borders calls my house if they haven't seen me in a week or two; just to make sure I'm okay.

[sunlizzard.livejournal.com]

LOL! Love this answer, lacousteau!

I protest the 11+ as highest category, too. I buy probably closer to 50 in a year. Many are full price first editions (known, favored authors with new titles); some are paperback, especially when I am back-filling a newly discovered author; and many are remainders (or what I refer to as Orphaned Books... they neeeeed a hoooome, see--heh). Fairly often a review in Time magazine will catch my eye and I've bought a number of those recommendations, too.

I try to support the local brick & mortar, even though I don't like them much, but sometimes I do order through Amazon. I haven't given in to temptation yet, but I figure that I could probably pay for a Kindle strictly through costs savings in, oh, a year. Or less. :)

[lacousteau.livejournal.com]

I've considered a Kindle, but it just isn't the same. You don't only read a book. It has weight, texture, smell. My favorite books have worn edges, spines that crackle slightly and drop open to pages of well read paragraphs.

Kindle is convienient, like the iPods etc.. But books are like vinyl albums and you just can't duplicate the comfort of that needle hiss or the rapture of parusing the shelves in a crowded old booksellers.

MMMMMMNNNNNNnnnnn. Books.

[sunlizzard.livejournal.com]

I agree. And there are authors that I would still absolutely have to have in 1st edition hardback. I dearly love books; I'm just getting tight for space, older by the day, and have no one who'd really love them to leave them to.

Thus, the Kindle has a definite appeal. Much of what I read I wouldn't mind having handy to reference, just in case; it just wouldn't need to be on the shelf--electonically accessible would be fine.

On the other hand, for Mother's Day, if I don't get a Kindle, I get a new dishwasher. What a dilemma, huh... :)

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Speaking up belatedly, but books breed at my house. I am firmly convinced that the problem is leaving those hardbacks alone overnight. They pair off, and for every pair of hardbacks that get together in the middle of the night, I wind up with a litter of paperbacks in the morning.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

"Three, Ivan?" [g] More like a hundred and three.