Do you visit another city/county regularly at all? I have a library card for my county and where my parents live. My local one is more well funded but my parents' local is underused, so I end up getting more books from there than my local. My parents so far don't mind the more frequent visits lol!

I started renting (I like renting lol) this year. I never really reread books, and I have so many, I just can't justify it. I try to be fairly eco conscious too so once I looked at it from the angle of just creating more trash, I just can't anymore without feeling bad. If you love buying books more power to you!

Now that I'm sitting and thinking about it though I also think it's because I shared a bunch of my absolute favorite childhood books with a friend's daughter only to have her lie to me, help my sister get into an abusive relationship and a whole bunch of nastiness. Who knows what happened to my books. Makes me sad.