Comment by randusername

It's nice to own books. Read them multiple times, dog-ear the pages, scribble in the margins, risk reading them in the pool.

But for the price conscious general reader just inter-library loan.

If you want to buy To Kill A Mockingbird or The Hobbit be my guest, but any library in the US would have a few copies of those.

Public libraries are awesome. Use it or lose it.