I also must admit, I've never stepped foot in a library. I either purchase the books I want to read or they're loaned by friends. The library seems this scary, disgusting place where people bend the spines on books and sneeze on and dog-ear the pages and generally don't take good care of the books for the next reader. Most of the books are donations, too; It's like a graveyard for all the books no one wants. And then, I have this nightmare that the books will start coming for me, begging me to take them home and rescue them from this horrible place. Scary, scary, scary!

I'd also probably get really mad when I see some of the books in the library and wonder how anyone could give up such a wonderful book. I think it might be safer for the universe if I just stay away. It's like I'm a bibliophobe as well as a bibliophile.

Then again, since I've never actually been to the library, I'm sure it's not as bad as I imagine.

I've never stepped foot in a library.

Buh?

I love the library! It's where the books live! And you can take them home with you! For free!

I read my parents odd assortment of outdated best-sellers such as . . . Forever Amber.

!!!!!!!!!!!

Ginger wins. Although FA is pretty tame by today's standards.

(And I remember reading some Harold Robbins as a teenager. Especially one very, very steamy scene in The Betsy.)

(EtA mark notin' that I'm quotin'.)

Yeah...and they do buy new ones...not as many as I want, but the library is like my crackhouse so this is not possible.

They took my library card away. When I like something, I don't want to give it back. And I form an irrational attachment to the actual physical book I read the first time. No, I don't want a shiny new one of my own, I want this one.

It's cheaper to buy my own.

The library is the BEST! And I don't think most of the books at the library are donations.

I haven't read anything I liked that much in a long time...this is sad.

Then again, since I've never actually been tho the library, I'm sure it's not as bad as I imagine.

I think of libraries as sanctuaries. I love being in an old, well-stocked library. Free books! How can you fear that?

I need to start using the library more. Luckily for my poscketbook, I have been loaned a lot of books recently.

Maybe I can convince myslef that my TBR shelves are a library and just work my way through them instead of spending more money.

They took my library card away. When I like something, I don't want to give it back.

I was very surprised and amused at the first time this came up, and so many Buffistas admitted they were basically Evil Incarnate when it came to library books.

See, when you don't return the books other people can't read them.

But Buffistas are not and never have been particularly sane about books.