On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 13:04:31 -0000, "Ophelia" >
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>"Bruce" wrote in message ...
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>On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 22:09:54 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:
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>>"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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>>> On 2019-03-22 2:34 p.m., Jinx the Minx wrote:
>>>> graham > wrote:
>>>>> I treat my grandchildren to books at any time. I don't consider them as
>>>>> luxuries but necessities.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Me too. I buy my daughter all the books she wants. I view it as an
>>>> investment in her future. I just wish she’d take an interest in reading
>>>> some of my childhood favorite books. :-)
>>>
>>> I was never much of a reader when I was a kid. I didn't care much for
>>> kids
>>> books, kids movies or cartoons. I do lots of reading now, usually at
>>> least a book a week. We made sure to read to our son every night and he
>>> became a very avid reader. While we bought him lots of books over the
>>> years we encouraged him to use the library.
>>>
>>> I have to wonder about some of the parents I see with their kids at the
>>> library. They go to the checkout and each kid has more than a dozen
>>> books. I appreciate that the kids are interested in reading, but I think
>>> that is really abusing a free service. They can take a few, read them,
>>> bring them back and get some more. Leave something for other people.
>>> People abuse the DVDs too. One day the woman checking out ahead of me
>>> had
>>> more than 2 dozen videos. That's more than three videos a day for the
>>> one week loan period. I would have no problem with a 3 movie limit.
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>>I outgrew kids books very quickly and was reading adult books in the 2nd
>>grade.
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>>I no longer go to the library. I did go as a child and young adult but I
>>quit going when I felt I had read everything of interest. It was not
>>uncommon for me to get 10-12 books at a time. We could check them out for
>>two weeks at a time. I could easily read them all by then. I'm a very fast
>>reader and unless the book is unusually long, can finish it in two ours or
>>less.
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>I switched to ebooks. It turns out there are whole binary newsgroups
>where authors are giving their books away!
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>I have ebooks too. Something to read on my phone if I am having to wait
>somewhere.

Yes!