Originally posted by: shellytt
Hi everyone,
I know that some of you like buying books and some like borrowing from the Library.
Personally, I love to buy books. However, I'm often asked by friends and family if they can borrow a good book. I normally say sure, however sometimes (more often than not) I don't get my books back, which really irritates me because its normally the really good books that I love, but I don't like to be rude and demand my books back, so I'm left in a bind!
I know exactly what you are talking about,Shellytt😊 It is so irritating when you lend books to people & they don't have enough courtesy to return it to you after a reasonable period of time😡 I too love buying books & wheneverI buy a book I love to come home & place it in my bookrack & admire the new addition😳 I just love seeing all my books in neat rows in my bookrack & when I lend a book it leaves a gap in my rack so I can't wait to get my book back.I know it sounds ridiculously totally childish & over-possessive but that's the way it is with me😳
Plus,I have really bad experience lending books to my friends & cousins who never return them to me.I once lent one of my books to a cousin.After sometime,when I visited her place,I saw the book just lying on the floor of her bedroom!😡 After that I firmly made up my mind never to lend a single book of mine to anybody else.
As for your question;
1. When a friend lends you a book, do you always return it???
Yes,I'm restless until I do so I always try to finish reading it ASAP & return it ASAP.
2. Any hints for other lost souls like me, to get our books back, without being rude?
Most of the time I too feel awkward asking for the books back. so what I do is send a text message.Here's a sample😛; "Hey,I was just wondering if you could return this book coz I told another friend of mine who was going to buy it that he/she doesn't need to buy it coz I've got it & could lend it to him/her"😛 I know it amounts to a (white) lie but hey,desperate times call for desperate measures,right?😆
3. Do you lend books or do you borrow? (I know this is the borrow or buy question phrased differently, but humor me if you please!)
3.) Occasionally,if I come across friends of mine having books that I'd like to read I ask them whether they have finished reading them & if they say yes & I could borrow them,then I do.But most of the time I just save money & buy books😃
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