20. May 2026

Do you use the library, or do you buy books?

I went to the library the other day for the first time in ages, and that prompted this blog post. 📚

Where do you usually buy your books from? Do you like to buy them online, or in a store? Or do you prefer to borrow them from the library, or a mixture of all of those things?

We went to a local library, because I wanted to sign up, so that I could borrow digital books online. I actually had to get a new library card, because I wasn’t on their system anymore due to the fact that I’d probably got the library card nearly 20 years ago! 🤣

I usually buy e-books, because it’s easier to hold with the osteoarthritis and I have a Kindle, which means I’m kind of tied to Amazon at the moment. But wanted to transfer to a Kobo e-reader, which I’ll be able to use to read digital library books.

And here are a couple of photos of the library because it has a really cool fact about it, it used to be a school and Charles Darwin went there. ⬇️