starseed

I dont neccessarily go to the library often (Im planning on getting a card soon though). But I have purchased a lot of books from the library book sales many times. I would say half, if not slightly more, of the books Ive read, Ive never heard of before reading them.

StephenP2003

When I was in middle and elementary school, I used to close my eyes, spin in a circle, and pick a book. It's how I discovered Animorphs, which pretty much changed my life (despite how crappy the writing seems to me 10 years later).

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JosephB

We've started taking my daughters to the library. We can walk, so it's very convenient. I poke around while I'm there, and I've picked up a few things on a whim, just from reading the dust jacket, a poster, or a display.

I've rediscovered the library. It's very relaxing to me. Plus, I want my kids to love books, and the library was very important to me when I was a kid. I want their faces in books, not glued to the evil idiot box.

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OddGodHMK

Some of the time. When I got back into reading I did, then I made a list of books which I wanted that I had heard about. Now I'm starting to read random stuff again. My latest rule is that if I see a poster in town for a book, I have to read it (not in shop windows, though, or I'd have 40 new books to read everytime I walked past a bookshop).

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winner

NO NO NO.

Why are you going to write a book and then give it away, hoping it will be read. Get some guts! Sale the d....d thing. Get out there and hustle.

No No No. People don't go around reading the back of unknown books. They are attracted either to the author because they know the author or because of the book cover. That is the initial attraction. Standing looking over the books they first pick with their eyes.

Also, check out the library requirement for putting one on their shelves. Unless you just want it to end up on some heap pile with a bunch of other trashed books for people to paw through.

Monkuta

My dad and I are into comic books and graphic novels so we head to the library a lot to check on our favorite series. Whenever we go I like to head down to the sci-fi or fantasy section and if there's something that looks good I'll buy it. That's once every month or so. I don't really borrow books though. I figure any book worth reading is worth owning.

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Mike C

Me too, which is why we've had to convert a bedroom to a library.

When I go buying books I go with a mental checklist; books I've heard a buzz about, where people I know have recommended them, books where I've read good reviews, books by authors I know if I haven't been able to blag a freebie signed copy (support your fellow artist!), books by authors I've read before but don't have everything by yet, maybe something off the list of classics I don't own yet, then check the staff picks, see what they have to say, then on the way to the checkout see what's on the 3 for 2 tables...

But I would never knowingly buy a self-published novel.

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lilacstarflower

I'm a sucker for the title - its always the first thing to draw me in. Don't care what anyone says but it is the ultimate magnet for people to pick up the book; think of how books are arranged on a bookshelf - nine times out of ten the spine is the only thing you can see.

I'm the same; found so many good reads lately that, once again, I'm running out of space in the bedroom.

Next one on my list is the Count of Monte Cristo; just found out it was the abridged version I had read years ago and found the unabridged in the bookstore yesterday - can't wait to read it over again!

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seigfried007

I don't usually buy books unless I've heard something neat about them--either from someone I know or as a review. I just don't have the cash or time to spend with/on books like I used to.

Either that, or the book was free and/or checked out from a library.

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