My family and I have recently moved (as in last week; our entire garage is filled to the brim with, oh my goodness, So. Much. Stuff). We’ve been working room by room to unpack and organize, though there are still little piles in each room. Don’t get me started on the boxes, either in the house or in the garage. Â
My books remain packed; the bookcases where they’ve resided in various organizational constructs over the past 12 years are empty.  It’s so sad. And I feel badly for my books as I pass them going in and out of the basement. Bless their hearts, they don’t deserve to be shut up tight in those darn paper boxes. Until I have the time and motivation (the real key) to unpack and shelve them, I’m living on borrowed books: library books.Â
Don’t get me wrong, I love the library. Absolutely love it. One of my favorite places to go, and I’m so very thankful my mother took my brother and I to the children’s area every other Saturday.  I’m lucky enough to work across the street from the library now, where the employees know me by name and aren’t surprised when my library holds come in at one time.  [I shouldn't be surprised either, but I always am.]
So, I must offer a great big THANK YOU to all the librarians out there who’ve kept me high on the written word while my brain is numb and my body is tired.
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Sounds like my place, although we’re still in the “make the house look good to sell” phase, which meant packing up about 3/4 of my books and putting them in a POD until we sell.
I’ve always been big on libraries, but even more so now because there’s no room for more books–not if we want the house to meet the “neat and orderly” stipulations of the Realtor.
But since one of my publishers targets the library market, I’m all for using the library. If the library buys my book because people request it, or if it’s got good circulation numbers so they buy more, my publisher is happy. And so am I.
I love the library, but until recently, only my daughter has been checking out books. With the push to save every available penny, my book budget is almost gone, but thanks to inter-library loan, I can still get most of the books I want. And since I made friends with the librarians, we recommend books to each other.
Love libraries but don’t utilize them often enough.
I’m with you on the packing books. We’re refurbishing my home office and I had to pack up what had to be something like twenty boxes of books. I think its time to weed some out and donate them to said library.
I try to buy books just the books that I can’t find at the library. I used to buy most of my books because I didn’t like the pressure of a due date, but I got married and couldn’t throw money around like I used to. I didn’t realize how many books I had until we started to merge our stuff! I just wish all library patrons took good care of the books while they have them.
We’re in the military and untill our last move this year I always bought all my reads and sold the ones that weren’t keepers on e-bay. It ook 6 months while we packed the old house for sale, moved all our stuff and said ‘bye to hubby to his new post while the girls and I stayed in a tinny appartment, and then bought and unpacked into our new home. I would have gone crazy without my local library. I re-read a lot and the librarian made sure I had plenty of books available, between their catalogue and the inter-library thing.
Now I’m all about the local library.