best birthday present ever

I prefer to own books, than to rent them, although I got no income. I got an annual membership at my town's library aswell (It's only 15 bucks), but I always buy my books for some reason, although I could read them for free basically. Anyone else /retard/?

>>8945744

The london library only makes you return books if someone else asks for them. my dad has some obscure books hes had on loan for literally 20+ years

>>8945748
Oh, I didn't knew that. At my library you can get them for 6 weeks max.

>>8945737
Where abouts in London OP?

Also libraries are irrelevant in the age of Amazon. Waste of money desu.

>paying for library access

brits are cucked both sexually and intellectually

>>8945752
Do they come enclosed with free pubes?

>>8945744
you have to pay for a library card?????

wtf

>>8947395
The London Library isnt just a library for taking out books, its like a whole institution or whatever.

You can keep books forever until someone requests the book. my dad has some obscure books hes kept for 20+ years.
It has rare first and second edition historical manuscripts that you cant see anywhere else.
It has very luxurious reading rooms and common rooms to work and read in - Karl Marx wrote a lot of his works in the Reading Rooms of the British and London Library.
Its like a gentlemen's club as well as a library - they have member's dinners and stuff, and the connections you make will help when it comes to getting favors and jobs and so on. I'm gonna do law so that kind of "networking" is quite important. Very elitist, but it works.
Also its just a really nice building with a cool history so its nice to go to.

Anyway, dont shit on my birthday present you goddamn party pooper.

it's my birthday too

>>8945737
Congrats OP, I'm very happy for you.

>>8946178
>>8946183
>>8947395
good grief there are some halfwits on this board

>>8947527

Sounds pretty great. How much does it cost?

>>8945744
i only buy books with more than 600 pages (and only when they're in sale)

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>>8949127
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>>8949142
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>>8945737
>>8947539
Happy birthday lads.

>>8945737
my local library doesn't even have a copy of Don Quixote in it. Hell, the only russian literature I can find is a copy of Bros K. i have a better library on my wall at this point. 90% of that place is freakin cronerotica