Do you buy books?

Or loan them from a library?

I loan them from libgen

I understand this meme less and less. Do you only read like classics and Veeky Forums chart stuff?

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Being a student I'm forced to loan fiction, torrent non-fiction, and buy the shitty textbooks which are written in my native language.

In order of attempt.

1. Soulseek
2. Libgen or Workerbee on TPB
3. Mobilism
4. Library
5. Interlibrary Loan
6. Thriftbooks or Abe Books
7. Amazon

OR

If first edition or limited printing or special book, 1. Abe Books

>meme

How is it a meme, you can find almost any contemporary novel, classic, philosophical tract, or hipster "classic" from NYRB or Dalkney or New World. The hardest stuff to get are scholarly monographs with one small printing, and if it isnt on libgen, its buy for 50 bucks.

Need to buy books because i love to annotate

Forgot to mention.

If I am on vacation and feeling restless
1. Small private book store or antique store

I purchase Everyman's Library editions exclusively

I just got a brand new vanity fair for 50 cents. They never cracked it.