JC> SB> I have been trying for years to talk people into the policy of buying
  > SB> only books they will re-use.  If you are going to rather regularly
  > SB> want to read something in a book at 3 am, you might as well buy it.  
If
  > SB> you're going to read it one time, and never open it again, you might
  > SB> as well borrow it.
JC> Actually I buy a lot of "recycled" books from the Friends of the Library,
  > yard sales, etc. And I don't even know very many people that buy books 
exce
  > for "paperbacks". Now that I think about it, I don't know many people 
hat
  > even _read_ books! 
We own lots of books in this house too.  But, then again, I re-read
books, I use them to quote from in my own writings, etc., etc.
JC> But my comment was more along the lines of "buying" "entertainment". Many
  > people would rather plunk down big bucks (not to mention monthly fees) to
  > have a sattelite dish installed so they can get 200 channels of 
mind-numbin
  > escapism than to set foot inside a library.
We have neither a satellite dish nor cable.  We talked about it once,
and realized that, in our household, we watch so little television,
there's no way either could be worth it.
                 Sondra
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