Books
We love reading, both fiction and non-fiction. Over the years we have needed to buy many textbooks for work. As students it was reasonable to buy second hand, up to date textbooks. However, the books needed once working, had to be as up to date as possible and often had an internet backup needing a key so new textbooks were the order of the day.
Private reading came from a variety of adhoc sources though to be honest we thought little of picking up a few books from the book shop or online. Then our daughter started reading, 6 to 10 books per week. There was no way we could manage to buy, store or fund that volume of books. My parents have always been regular users of the local library, but we were not. Our daughter's reading took us back to the library opening her up to a world of information, safely, whilst allowing our son to cut his teeth reading comics, again reducing the paper load at home. For my part I not only get books but also use their computers and printers. In early 2010 our printer broke. We had found that because we print so little the ink cartridges dried up before they were fully used, so we decided to try using the library's instead. This has reduced our use of ink cartridges, freed up time from going to buy the ink and supports a local resource.
A further source of books in the last 12 months has been Bookmooch - www.bookmooch.co.uk - where books are exchanged at no financial cost other than the postage. Books tend to be scooped up quickly so there is often a wait for books but we have sent and received many books that way, often older texts that are out of print.
Our local charity shop has an ever changing selection of books and when we are finished with our books we can hand them back.
Private reading came from a variety of adhoc sources though to be honest we thought little of picking up a few books from the book shop or online. Then our daughter started reading, 6 to 10 books per week. There was no way we could manage to buy, store or fund that volume of books. My parents have always been regular users of the local library, but we were not. Our daughter's reading took us back to the library opening her up to a world of information, safely, whilst allowing our son to cut his teeth reading comics, again reducing the paper load at home. For my part I not only get books but also use their computers and printers. In early 2010 our printer broke. We had found that because we print so little the ink cartridges dried up before they were fully used, so we decided to try using the library's instead. This has reduced our use of ink cartridges, freed up time from going to buy the ink and supports a local resource.
A further source of books in the last 12 months has been Bookmooch - www.bookmooch.co.uk - where books are exchanged at no financial cost other than the postage. Books tend to be scooped up quickly so there is often a wait for books but we have sent and received many books that way, often older texts that are out of print.
Our local charity shop has an ever changing selection of books and when we are finished with our books we can hand them back.
