Re: Any tips for keeping those library books and fines under control?

[Scattybird]

Hi quizzical – sadly my library fines are so high that I no longer borrow books. It’s cheaper to buy them!

I have not worked out a system for making myself take them back by the due date, even if they are in a pile waiting to go.

…..And there is ALWAYS that one book that hides for months!

So now I use a Kindle instead because it works out cheaper. However, I don’t read as much as I used to do. If I did, then it wouldn’t be financially viable.

I subscribe to Audible audiobooks too and sometimes buy used books from Amazon. All still cheaper than my fines were!

I guess with a family of readers it’s more difficult because that would be untenable financially.

Could you have a ‘reading room’ so the boys don’t take their books out of there at all? At least then you’d only have one room to search.

Alternatively, there are schemes here in places like shops, Church halls, even at bus stops, where people who have read a book leave them so others can read it. They can take one from the selection in return. So it’s a book swap scheme. Do they exist where you are? If not, could you start one? There are no fines, it doesn’t matter if a book isn’t returned, but it works quite well as long as people give as well as take. It’s not overseen by some judgemental librarian – it just runs itself once set up.

(The Audiobook I’m listening to at the moment is narrated by someone who must have ADHD judging by the speed she’s reading. I like to imagine it’s Larynxa reading it – didn’t she say she narrates books or have I got that wrong?)

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