I had a conversation about books with a friend of mine and we came into the subjects of buying books vs borrowing books from a public library. He said that he likes to support the author and prefers to buy the books he reads.
This made me think. The answer is pretty clear when it comes to buying vs downloading a pirate copy, but in the case with libraries it seems incorrect to say that I’m not supporting the author, but I can’t say why.
What do you think?
Mmmm. I don’t want to own every book I’ve ever read. If I had to, I’d probably just read the news, which can be very informative, exciting, and amazing. I don’t really care for authors who want to think for me anyway, meaning lots of news stories are well written and make ME do the thinking. I grew up going to the library every Saturday. Thank God for them, as we didn’t have much money.