Should I branch out or spend?

[LenaGardner]

(Hope it's ok to start threads/book chatter here?) So, the only book available for e-download from my library from this month's choices (that isn't all out) is the only one I'm not interested in reading. WWYD? Should I branch out and try a new book, since it's free and I'll have support LOL? Or should I just spend for one of the other books through Amazon? The only one my library has is Madame Tussaud...I see that it is highly acclaimed but IDK.

[KateD]

Madame Tussaud was the only book that was available to check out from my library, so that's the one I'm reading first. I'm about 100 pages into it; it isn't a real page-turner, but I am enjoying it. The worst thing that could happen if you DL it from the library and don't like it, is that you read a few chapters then stop. I'd go for it.

[ColleenSwerb]

Can you not go to the library and get a regular copy of one of the others?

Kate has a good point. I think it's worth a shot. Give it a start, and if you hate hate hate it, then stop and send it back.

[LenaGardner]

Originally Posted by ColleenSwerb

Can you not go to the library and get a regular copy of one of the others?

Kate has a good point. I think it's worth a shot. Give it a start, and if you hate hate hate it, then stop and send it back.

I could, but I prefer the eeader times a zillion. I never could read a book on the elliptical or treadmill, but I can read my Kindle that way. Also, all physical copies of The Help are out, too. There are 9 waits for the ebook!

[BrattyMeg]

I'm a book buyer :0x I use my kindle a good bit but I love holding a book in my hand.

[maryinaz]

Personally, I don't like wasting time on something I'm not interested in, so I'd just buy the one I want to read.

[adrianka]

For me, there's no way boring-but-free could win over paid-but-interesting. Why waste time for something you don't want to do just because it's free?

[ColleenSwerb]

Because then you never get to experience anything new She might try it and love it, who knows. And if she hates it, she's only out a few hours time and then she can go buy one of the other ones she's more interested in and probably would have bought anyway.

ETA: I mean Lena, if you REALLY don't want to read it, then just go buy one of the other ones, lol. I just think it's worth a shot since it's free, and I wouldn't mind that "wasted" time if I ended up hating it.

[adrianka]

Originally Posted by ColleenSwerb

Because then you never get to experience anything new She might try it and love it, who knows. And if she hates it, she's only out a few hours time and then she can go buy one of the other ones she's more interested in and probably would have bought anyway.

ETA: I mean Lena, if you REALLY don't want to read it, then just go buy one of the other ones, lol. I just think it's worth a shot since it's free, and I wouldn't mind that "wasted" time if I ended up hating it.

True enough. Since it's an e-product, Lena can always delete it if she doesn't like it. It's not that easy getting rid of real stuff that you don't like (I know what I'm talking about, and I didn't even get my unwanted stuff for free, LOL).

[*Celeste*]

the kate morton book is waiting for me at the library. i doubt i;ll be able to get madame tussaud unless i buy it. download it and see how it is.

[Stacey42]

My library's budget cuts have severely limited thier ebook selections so none ofthe books are available that way to me. I asked how long the hold was for each of the books & The Help will available first. It's not my first choice, I'd rather have Madam Tussauds but it'd be the end of the month before I got it. I'm going with it rather than buy one of the others because I am cheap. I only buy certain books.

That is what I love about the library. If I decide 4 chapters in that I don't like the book I can take it back & I am not out a dime & don't feel obligated to waste precious reading time finishing something I don't enjoy just because I paid for it.

[Ther]

Originally Posted by FlirtatiousBrat

I'm a book buyer :0x I use my kindle a good bit but I love holding a book in my hand.

I have a kindle too but never really use it. I am with ya...I love having a book in my hand and physically turning the page.

[adrianka]

Originally Posted by Ther

I have a kindle too but never really use it. I am with ya...I love having a book in my hand and physically turning the page.

Let me join and say that I don't even own a Kindle because it just doesn't compare to holding a real book in my hand. And yep, a friend of mine has a Kindle, so I saw it. A really cool device, but nothing for me.

Forgive me, Lena, for OT-ing your thread! And tell us how you decided in the end. :-)

[*Celeste*]

i couldn't use a kindle. i just am not interested in spending my book time staring at a screen. i get enough of that as it is already!

[junipers]

I have a Kindle, I put it off for a long time because I love browsing the library and I don't know just the all around thrill of getting that email saying a book I had on hold was in. However, the straw that broke the camel's back was the last time I borrowed a book from the library, actually it was "The Help" someone had smeared buggers on several of the pages, I have not been back to the library to borrow a book since!!

So back to the subject, I'd try the book. There are plenty of books that I've never finished, but you never know, you may really enjoy it. I wouldn't call it a waste of time more a broadening of the mind =)

[Ther]

Originally Posted by junipers

However, the straw that broke the camel's back was the last time I borrowed a book from the library, actually it was "The Help" someone had smeared buggers on several of the pages, I have not been back to the library to borrow a book since!!

So back to the subject, I'd try the book. There are plenty of books that I've never finished, but you never know, you may really enjoy it. I wouldn't call it a waste of time more a broadening of the mind =)

EWWWW!!! That would probably kill borrowing books from the library for me too. I do the friend "library" option.