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A friend of mine shared this receipt from her local library which shows how much money she's saved by using it.
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this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2024
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How much money is she spending that just the savings add up to 60'000? Or is that just an error and that's the joke?
It’s the price of the books she would have bought otherwise.
Oh so just one grad school text book.
She also has a kid and has been going with the kid to the library since he was born to check out a bunch of books every week. He's in grade school now... I want to say he's 10?
$6996.99 per year is $134.56 per week. If you get 5 books per week, that's $26.91 per book. Given the picture includes a single book costing $19.95, that feels very reasonable. Maybe it's 6 books a week, maybe some books are more expensive.
That's a very consistent habit though.
They literally go every week and she and her husband and her kid all use it, so it would add up.
I go to the library every week with my kids. We usually have 20-30 books checked out at a time. 5 books per week is nothing for a whole family.
Especially children's books in terms of a per-page ratio. You check out 10 children's books, because your kid will get through them all in a few days, that could be $200 worth of books.
I can go through 4 or more books a week depending on their length. I read a fuck ton. Using the Libby app to have books sent to my kindle automatically has really changed my life. Being able to just grab my kindle at any moment, read for 15 minutes while I wait for something, as well as an hour or two at the end of the night. It adds up quickly. I will say that I read a lot of "lighter" fare, so I can breeze through without much issue. If I get into something more heavy or some dense non-fiction it will slow down considerably.
I work in a kitchen, most of the time by myself, so I throw an audio book on at double speed and I can crank through a 16 hour book in one shift. It helps to lighten the mental load of the work, especially during slower times where I get fidgety. I do understand the need for paper, I just don't have the room for it. If there is a book that is important to me, then I'll grab a physical copy, but if it's some random sci-fi that I'm just testing out, I'm leaning hard into that Libby app to see if I'll actually enjoy it.
Same here. But with eBooks too. Sometimes my brain drifts for a while and I reread the same paragraph 5 times. So what I do is "double-dip". I listen to and read the ebook at the same time. This way my brain has no chance of escaping. This has also helped me with my English; oh, so that's how you pronounce albeit?
It works great for me. Not for my wife though, who is textbook ADHD. She reads slow, and if she matches the speed for the audiobook to her reading speed, it gets boring :) the wonders of neurodiversity :)
I've found that I have the most success with stuff I know fairly well. I'll listen to Tolkien, Asimov, or King because I've read the books 10 times and if I miss a bit, I still know what is going on.
I don't know exactly what she reads, but I am guessing it's also lighter fare, leaning on sci-fi/fantasy. Not that she isn't smart, she just is (like me) someone who prefers to read for the enjoyment of the story rather than the challenge.
Oh for sure. I love a heavy read when I have time time to enjoy it, but I can't eat 10lbs of beef for every meal. Sometimes I want a berry smoothie.
I used to love heavy reads, but the older I get the more it just wears me out. I just don't have the patience for such things anymore.
I totally understand :)