Comradeship // Freechat

I have a list of books I plan on buying physically, even if I have them in my digital library already. The most important criteria I use is whether I'd want to re-read them, whether I'd want friends and family read them, and whether I think I'd want my future kids to read them. There is just something about having a lot of books around when growing up, I always looked up at my parents bookshelves and pondered at the different covers, titles and authors. Some books I was "allowed" to read, some I was too young or inexperienced for, and it was always exciting after one or two years to finally hear "You are probably ready for this one now", and so forth, until I started buying my own books.

I don't think my love for reading would be what it is if my parents instead let me browse their digital repository of e-books on the laptop.

At the same time, there are a lot of books that I know I'm not gonna read again, like crime thrillers and such. A lot of fiction in general is entertaining when you read it but doesn't necessarily hold the same long term value imo. There are many non-fiction books that I come back to time and time again, this is rarely true for the works of fiction I do keep. Purely subjective of course, but lets just say there is more Lenin than Tom Clancy in my bookshelves.