“Hon, if you want, you can take $25 from my paycheck and spend it at the bookstore.”

He didn’t understand why this made me laugh.

I love to read. LOVE it. I’ve been an avid reader as long as I can remember. I often have two or three books going at once - one for the van, one for my bed and one downstairs. I read magazines, blogs, catalogs - if nothing else is available, I’ve been known to flip the cereal box and read it. I’m not a fan of the library - often, I want a specific book and I want it immediately, preferring to possess it rather than wait the (sometimes interminable) time frame for those popular books. I just prefer to own them. I know, I know -paying for books instead of borrowing them isn’t good common sense. I can’t help it.

Purchasing so many books can occasionally backfire, however. The storage aspect can be challenging, the possibility of purchasing an already owned book (don’t laugh, I’ve done it more times than I care to think), and on and on. I was wracking my brain as to how I could bring more books into my house, barring the skimpy $25 that I was offered, when I remembered about all the books listed here on Zwaggle. Books are easy to ship, not heavy enough to be cost prohibitive, and even better, I could post all of the things lying around this house my kids are no longer using and use those Zoints for more books for myself… I mean for my kids.

That measly $25, with which I could purchase one book at the bookstore, could bring me in more than ten, if I played my cards right.

I can’t wait to go shopping in the book section. Care to join me?