I don't know if this is useful to anybody else, but... Lately I've been finding a lot of the books that I want to read at my local library. I can go to their website and type in the title of the book I want, press a couple of buttons, and have the book delivered to my local library branch -- which is about 3 blocks away from my house. They send an e-mail message when the book arrives there. I'm liking this a lot because it doesn't cost anything, and I can really see what *I* think of the book before I buy it. If I don't like the book, it's gone again from my life as soon as I return it -- I don't need to find storage for it or sell it or anything, and it cost me nothing.

Not everybody's library is as convenient as this. I'm really glad that mine is!

-Valerie