Books

If we are not short on money it is not unusual to buy books just like that. A book is never amiss; reading makes we grow up, it is necessary to support culture... But books are nonetheless consumer goods, and it is as convenient to limit their consummation as for any other product. Let us buy books when we really want them.

How can we do it

If I buy this book, when will I read it? How many books do I have that I have not yet read and I don't know if I ever will be able to, although I would like to do so? Maybe I could start to read one of those, before I buy a new one?
Libraries are an excellent tool to have access to books without having to buy them.
We can also read books that other people lend us.
Electronic books and audio books let us save paper (please look on "the paper" tab).
Books (and records) are often very used as a wild gift when "we do not know what to give as a gift". Let us assure ourselves that the person receiving it really wants that book, or that he/she will be able to read it. We can also give as a gift the possibility of reading that book, lending him or her books of ours, for example.
It's often thought that authors need to sell books to keep on creating, but that's not so.
If we want to develop ourselves, reading is a way, but not the only one. There are people "officially uneducated" that have such a deep wisdom as a learned person. We can learn a lot from other people of our own experimentation, of talks, of some programs on the TV or the radio...
Let us buy a book when it really interests us or we like it so much as to want having it handy at any time. This way we will also keep place for shelves at home.

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Data d'actualització: 10/06/2010 - 19:25