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I'm even-Stevens at the moment for bookstore / library / friends, but usually I go hog wild at a bookstore whenever necessary.

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I usually will buy them new, however if I am in a used bookstore, sometimes I come away with a lot of books. There are not many near me though.

I love browsing :)

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I download audiobooks and listen to them on my iPod.
Library is #2.
I would need to do some serious pruning before starting in on buying many books. Except for my children, of course--buy books for them all the time.

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Audiobooks are a sensibly compact way of acquiring books - when downloaded, they take up very little shelfspace indeed. I've not listened to many audiobooks independently in my life, but when I was younger, my parents were regular listeners to books on the radio (Doug Brown) - in one hour installments, several days a week, and I would hear most of the installments as well. I can appreciate the lure of a well-read book.

Do you choose books more based on recommendations for the text or for the quality of the reading?

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Probably the former more than the latter. I've recently enjoyed Bleak House and Devil in the White City not because of the readings but because I have been wanting to read them for a while. In other cases I have rediscovered books I read before (Pride and Prejudice through great readings that really qualify as performances. Moby Dick, which I have read before, is coming up. I am currently listening to a wonderful reading by Theodore Bikel of O Jerusalem! which I have been wanting to read for years.

With work and family duties I have very little time for reading and have missed it terribly. The audiobooks let me have the pleasure of literature while doing other things such as housework, driving or walking.

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Mostly gifts at brithday and Xmas.

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Gifts are an excellent way to receive books. I presume this means you aren't an extremely frequent reader of books? (Or receive such massive quantities twice a year that there's no need to acquire any more in between times.) Do you read more magazines or newspapers, or do websites deal with most of your free-time reading compulsions?

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Just last week I re-launched my "use the (terrific) local library system!" campaign, but previously I had done an awful lot of online shopping, which needs to stop: too much clutter, and I'd rather save my pennies. I rarely re-read a book, anyway. As you posted this my library called to let me know that The Art of Happiness is waiting for me at the circulation desk! Yay!

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We were buying used from the local used book store quite a bit when we lived in Berkeley.

Since we moved away, there's been more Amazon usage, though we're just not buying as many books as we used to period.

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