Do people still buy books and read nowadays?

• yourfavouritefriend

  3 Dec 10, 14:03

  Just curious over this

• FireIce

  3 Dec 10, 14:10

  i bollo from lib usually

  i go there once a week to act nerdette, check out nerds
  
  i do buy books though very very seldom
  maybe like once a year oni
  bcos it will be available in the lib in a few mths' time
  i just need to wait

• dragg

  3 Dec 10, 14:13

  i dont.

  there are more than enough at the libraries.

   

• Feb2011

  21 Feb 11, 14:28

  I borrow other books and only buy local ghost stories books.Other local ghost stories books have disappeared with times except Russell Lee still going strong.

• FireIce

  21 Feb 11, 14:56

  yep.i bot miss setoh. i want buy tiger mother but cant find yet
• QX179R

  21 Feb 11, 15:00

  I know of a friend who does..

• eagle

  21 Feb 11, 15:50

  Sometimes buy, sometimes borrow, sometimes download.

  Some of the books are really timeless classics.

• likeyou

  21 Feb 11, 15:51

  I borrow from lib.

  Buy and read no. After reading, where to keep the books?

  I want my house clutter free.

• fudgester

  21 Feb 11, 15:52

  Usually I borrow, and sometimes I buy.

  The most recent one I bought was Mao's Great Famine.
  

• likeyou

  21 Feb 11, 15:54

  I tot of buying a kind of software (I forgot the name) where you can download all story books into that computer (hand carry). Can download up to more than 10,000 books.

• the Bear

  21 Feb 11, 16:33

  i wonder what made Amazon refuse to sell to Singapore?

  could it be.. the Media Destruction Asshats?

  but then, i do buy books coz usually the books i like to read will not be found in the libraries

• Nelstar

  21 Feb 11, 16:42

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  i wonder what made Amazon refuse to sell to Singapore?

  could it be.. the Media Destruction Asshats?

  but then, i do buy books coz usually the books i like to read will not be found in the libraries

  http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_navbox_center_intl?nodeId=596184

  You are responsible for assuring that the product can be lawfully imported to the destination country. When ordering from Amazon.com, the recipient is the importer of record and must comply with all laws and regulations of the destination country.

• the Bear

  21 Feb 11, 17:10

  i guess we cannot comply with "everything must be approved and censored" part of the law...

• Fcukpap

  21 Feb 11, 23:18

  throw the books away...especially economics books...

• MooKu

  24 Apr 11, 21:06

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  i wonder what made Amazon refuse to sell to Singapore?

  could it be.. the Media Destruction Asshats?

  but then, i do buy books coz usually the books i like to read will not be found in the libraries

  What is it that they refuse to sell to us? :o

• MooKu

  24 Apr 11, 21:08

  There is a quote by Henry Ward Beecher...

  "Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"

  

  I buy books to read.

  I also end up buying books that I don't read.