I love books and I love browsing bookstores; however, with the economy being what it is I try not to spend money unless I have to. My strategy for still enjoying bookstores while not blowing my budget is not to buy anything. But that’s not fun right? You still want to read those great books that you find! So what I do is pull out my camera phone and take pictures of the covers of books I want to read and then go home and reserve them at the library. The library will call me when the books come in and then I just pick them up.
I don’t want anyone to think that we don’t buy books because we do. We have an entire library in our house full of books. Very few of them were bought brand new. I keep a mental list of books that I would like to own and then I try to buy them at our local thrift stores for .10¢ or .25¢. We also shop at a couple of really great, local, family owned, used book stores.
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