Plus, books are really really really cheap. Go to any Goodwill or Salvation Army or Once Upon A Child and you will find gobs and gobs of books at very cheap pr

Plus, books are really really really cheap. Go to any Goodwill or Salvation Army or Once Upon A Child and you will find gobs and gobs of books at very cheap prices. Yes, even undamaged. We toss lots of books in the trash in America, not because we hate books, but because we make so many of them and then need to make room for the new books. "Able to afford books" was once a status symbol. It's not any more. See also: http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/10/12/141265066/hard-choices-do-libraries-really-destroy-books http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/10/12/141265066/hard...