One of my goals to improve my writing, i find myself needing to increase the amount of my reading. It seems to be a commonly accepted belief that to improve writing one must read a lot. I am however, it appears to be, cheap. This may sound bad, but it doesnt bother me. I just don't like waste. And i don't like clutter. Currently i have about 40 books in my immediate field of vision. Ive used most of these books to various degree in various points of time, but now, 99% of them are just sitting there. So i find myself needing to read much more, but i dont want to accumulate junk, which will cost me subustantial funds. It may be obvious solution to you, my readers, to say something like - well Char - there's this new invention - about 2000 years old, called the library, and in this invention they got books, you can take home, read and return, and best of all its free! And youll be right! But have you been to a library lately? Theyre stuffy, quite, boring, and people there are constantly shushing your or other people. Its not really a cool place.

What i prefer to libraries are those shiney corporate chain bookstores, with cofee shops right on the premesis, and some kinda funky world muzak, ambiantly playing. Also thes places tend to have books not yet in libraries.

Therin lies a problem, books at these cool stores cost money, and also its somewhat of a scene (which is both good and bad).

I think it would be awesome if someone makes libraries more like those bookstores, or the bookstores more like the libraries. I wonder if theres any $ in that idea?

ps
Rooshv had a post where he talks about all the books he read for free at just such a store. I think thats awesome. I need to do more of that.