How many library cards do you have? What libraries? (cover, e-book, classic)
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Los Angeles County
Los Angeles City
Orange County, CA
Mission Viejo, CA
Calabasas, CA
Ventura County
Huntsville, AL
Colorado Springs, CO
Thousand Oaks, CA
Seven. Next time I go up to Cleveland, I'm going to stop in to their library if I have time.
Greene co., OH
State Library of Ohio
Columbus, OH
Douglas Co., CO
Jefferson Co., CO
Scottsdale, AZ
Phoenix, AZ
My Arizona and Colorado cards should be expiring soon, and I doubt I'll be able to renew them. Until then, I get the benefit of their short waiting lists for online e-books
Two cards to city public libraries, and one card to a private art library. Once upon a time I used to belong to private lending libraries, but no more.
Indeed, it's surprising that many cities will give you a library card even if you don't live in that city. I have three cards: Los Angeles County and one each for the city I live in and the city I worked in for 34 years (both in Los Angeles County).
I prefer to have a serious relationship with books, not one-night-stands. I buy books, and with few exceptions, keep them forever. Like a marriage. (Well, a polygamous marriage, as I have hundreds of "spouses").
To me, library books are like hookers:
You don't know where they've been.
Too many other people have had their hands on them, have left their DNA on them, and you don't know what germs they carry.
People just "rent" them briefly and don't care about them after they've moved on.
I usually re-read books more than once, or at least consult them as a reference from time to time. Once I've read it, it's mine, mine, mine.
Victoria College/UHV Library, which is two blocks away and I use all the time.
Victoria Texas City Library, which is two miles away and I haven't been there in years.
Traverse City, Michigan
Sussex, Wisconsin
Waupun, Wisconsin
Salem, Missouri
Madison, Florida
North Florida Community College
The only card I know I still have is a copy card from the Library of Congress. Odd, but I don't recall ever having to have a "library card" for that library but then I'm not sure you can take publications out of the the LOC.
I prefer to have a serious relationship with books, not one-night-stands. I buy books [twice, in fact], and with few exceptions, keep them forever. Like a marriage. (Well, a polygamous marriage, as I have hundreds of "spouses").
To me, library books are like hookers:
You don't know where they've been.
Too many other people have had their hands on them, have left their DNA on them, and you don't know what germs they carry. [Paranoid?]
People just "rent" them briefly and don't care about them after they've moved on.
I usually [usually?, like more than half the time? Hard to believe.] re-read books more than once, or at least consult them as a reference from time to time. Once I've read it, it's mine, mine, mine.
You and I are so opposite - maybe we should get married.
I can't believe anyone would buy a book when they already paid for it once.
I'd bet 99% of people read a book exactly one time (and often don't even finish it).
I'll go to the library and check out 50 books at a time (though 40 of them are kids books for my kids).
I know, it might seem weird to some people to re-read books. But we had a whole thread on it, and there are evidently more people like me. I think of books like old friends, and I love to go back and re-visit them from time to time. Most of my fiction books I've re-read. I have maybe one small bookshelf of "so-so" fiction books that I probably won't re-read. I generally keep those a few years, to make sure I don't get the urge to re-read them. then if not, I donate them. Most of my non-fiction books, I don't entirely re-read, buy consult a lot, to remind myself of facts, etc.
Your "twice" comment might refer to something I posted elsewhere? About liking a kindle book so much I had to own it as a "real" book? Yes, I do that with "classics" so I don't mess up the hardcover versions.
Yes, library books do creep me out. Not so much "paranoid" but maybe a tad obsessive-compulsive Even as a kid, I would get very upset when I got a library book that someone had written in. It started to bother me a lot that other people had touched it and messed it up. I also get grossed-out by the fact that some people talk of reading on the toilet. However, I can happily buy used/vintage books and not feel bothered by others having owned them. Don't ask me, I can't explain that one either. If I've dog-eared a page in a book, I'm totally fine with it, but if some stranger dog-eared a page before I read it, I'm really put-off.
Again, I guess it's like dating/marriage. With books, I can't play the field and have random hookups and one night stands. I'm a literary serial monogamist.
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