Free Books from your local Library

I don’t know about you, but I do love a good book, it doesn’t matter whether fact or fiction, I love them all. But I recently calculated that over the years I must have spent thousands of pounds (pre miser days) on buying books, and apart from a very special handful, most would have been read just once and then relegated to a bit of bookcase shelf to gather dust.

Obviously now I’m a bit more wiser (or should that be miser) than I used to be, but there is a certain pleasure to be had from just the handling of a book, reading every word, turning page after page, and whilst the internet is a great source of information and entertainment, it’s not the same as holding that book in your hands.

But, being a miser, a wiser miser, doesn’t deprive me of that pleasure. In Britain, and a lot of other countries too I suspect, but don’t know for certain, there is a great resource, free resource, at the local library where you can get these books for free, great! (on loan obviously) you can also get access to magazines, cd’s, dvd’s, etc although they sometimes do make a charge for these items, so I won't be borrowing any of them then.

I have always used the library, and have encouraged my children to do so too, although it's not the same today as it was when I was young, as instead of having a plastic card that was scanned you literally had six small cardboard tickets, little pouches to hold the library card inside that was kept inside each book, so they knew who had which book, these cards were then returned to you when you returned the books.

And you had to be ‘silent’ a short sharp ‘Shhhh’ from a sour faced librarian terrified the young socks off me, but now, crickey, what a racket, it ain't the same, noisy beggars”

Until next time: I’m going to check out the online search facility at our local library to see what new books they’ve had in recently,