Should i buy it?

[Canukistani]

Should i buy AMoL? Or borrow it from the library? I have all the others but..i never seem to read them more then once. And i could find better use for the $50 for the book. I'm thinking of selling my Game of Thrones and Discworld collection because i just don't read them again.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

borrow it unless you love the author.

[Canukistani]

I don't love anyone..so i guess that settles it.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

yep.

 

i'll borrow the audio CDs. eventually. if i ever finish the last one.

[Roxinos]

You don't have to love an author to justify buying the books. You just have to have a love for books themselves. I love the feel, the sound, the smell, the look. Books are tremendously aesthetically pleasing, and bookshelves filled with books are just beautiful. So why not fill them with physical manifestations of things you have enjoyed?

 

I love Jordan for showing me the door to bigger and better things. I don't think he was a tremendously good author, but the books are good memories.

 

That's just me, though.

 

Edit: I was only trying to say that there are other reasons for wanting to buy a book than just loving the author.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

I understand.

 

what I was trying not to say is that though I love books, I do not love this author.

 

I bought them all up till this one.

 

the first six several times.

[Canukistani]

i hear you Rox. but in the last 12 months i've only read one book

[Roxinos]

Then you should probably reassess your supposed feelings on books. Haha. It's not a bad thing if you decide that you don't really care much about it and you care more about the communities or something like that. Ultimately, just do whatever makes ya happy.

[Canukistani]

i do care about books. i can't throw them out. but i just have other uses of my time then reading a lot. i've been going with audio books and audio dramas lately

[Roxinos]

Blegh. Can't stand audio books, personally. :p

[Starrik]

You don't have to love an author to justify buying the books. You just have to have a love for books themselves. I love the feel, the sound, the smell, the look. Books are tremendously aesthetically pleasing, and bookshelves filled with books are just beautiful. So why not fill them with physical manifestations of things you have enjoyed?

 

I love Jordan for showing me the door to bigger and better things. I don't think he was a tremendously good author, but the books are good memories.

 

That's just me, though.

 

Edit: I was only trying to say that there are other reasons for wanting to buy a book than just loving the author.

I completely agree!

[Basel Gill]

If you don't spend that much time on reading, then you're probably better off borrowing it, or buying the audio book since that seems to be your preferred format.

 

Christine.

[Canukistani]

i'm also thinking of selling my collection off. don't have room for a library really.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

i do care about books. i can't throw them out. but i just have other uses of my time then reading a lot. i've been going with audio books and audio dramas lately

 

my work ruined my eyes, i read stupid indecipherable medical records on two screens all day... and the commute is long, so i usually do audio books now.

[Roxinos]

You should get an eBook reader. :)

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

i have one, and sometimes use it.

 

you should see what it's like to try to use your eyes in, what, 20 years?

 

do not judge what you do not yet understand.

 

or do, your call.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

also... clicky clicky booky booky very bad for impulse control disorders.

[Roxinos]

Heh. If I take my glasses off, I can't make detail out of something a foot in front of my face. I think I can imagine. :-p

 

I'm just being silly, kitteh.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

i didn't mind being nearsighted... have been since i was 8... been about 20/600+ without glasses for decades... but i used to be able to read without glasses fine, and now i can;t see near or far, and.... i miss vision. i couldn't stop doing what was making it worse no matter how many times mom warned me....

 

yes, i know this, i am cranky is all.

[Roxinos]

Yeah, I've been nearsighted since I was about 7 or 8 as well. Not sure what my vision is like on a distance/perspective spectrum, but I know that my vision is worse than most people I know (including my parents who are in their 50s and 60s).

 

I'm hoping for some surgery at some point down the line if my vision deterioriates any further. It hasn't in a few years, I don't think.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

the nearsightedness usually settles once you stop growing, but the presbyopia can start as early as 30, so i'm lucky it's held off this long.

 

wait for the surgery to improve if you can... a lot of times it's just temporary and... well you;re on a computer, you'll research outcomes i'm sure.

[Arez Al'Loke]

i didn't mind being nearsighted... have been since i was 8... been about 20/600+ without glasses for decades... but i used to be able to read without glasses fine, and now i can;t see near or far, and.... i miss vision. i couldn't stop doing what was making it worse no matter how many times mom warned me....

 

yes, i know this, i am cranky is all.

 

What was it you kept doing? I'm curious because I'd like to avoid doing the same thing if possible =/ If it's something private then nevermind, I'm thinking more ex: reading books at night/ playing games on the computer alot, you know, things like that.

[Arez Al'Loke]

wait for the surgery to improve if you can... a lot of times it's just temporary and... well you;re on a computer, you'll research outcomes i'm sure.

 

Î don't know about other countries, but in Sweden, it has improved a LOT.. I've got several work comrades who've done the procedure, only one of them had problems, and those problems disappeared with time ^^

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

i didn't mind being nearsighted... have been since i was 8... been about 20/600+ without glasses for decades... but i used to be able to read without glasses fine, and now i can;t see near or far, and.... i miss vision. i couldn't stop doing what was making it worse no matter how many times mom warned me....

 

yes, i know this, i am cranky is all.

 

What was it you kept doing? I'm curious because I'd like to avoid doing the same thing if possible =/ If it's something private then nevermind, I'm thinking more ex: reading books at night/ playing games on the computer alot, you know, things like that.

 

it's well worth the outcome.

[Arez Al'Loke]

Am I supposed to understand what you meant? Because I don't