"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 shed 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.

I outgrew kids books very quickly and was reading adult books in the 2nd
grade.

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.