-=> Dominique Curtis wrote to All <=-

 DC> my book on C only talks about predefined character strings, ie:
 DC> static char *books[30] = {"moby dick", "annie",
etc}; But not on how
 DC> to read data into one.

That's an array of pointers to constant strings. You can't read into it.

 DC> I will only be storing about 30, 15 character-or-less strings.

Declare an array something like this:

 char foo[30][16];

Read into it with something like this:

 fgets(foo[0], 16, stdin);   /* Read a string into foo[0] */

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