My parents had stable jobs, but weren't super well off when I was a kid; but one thing that I only really appreciated in retrospect was that they gave me an eff

My parents had stable jobs, but weren't super well off when I was a kid; but one thing that I only really appreciated in retrospect was that they gave me an effectively unlimited budget for books. They'd give me suggestions and buy me books that they thought would be worthwhile reads, but they'd also buy whatever fantasy/sci-fi books I asked for. Thankfully for my parents' wallets, I did spend a lot of time at our town library.