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Our library here is not great. Books are wait-listed, unavailable, lost, stolen, and I always forgot to return mine, so borrowing wasn't free. Sometimes it was hideously not free. And, sometimes the wait on the latest book in a series would be more than 6 months, or the library didn't feel the need to order it yet, or just....It was insane.
I like to be able to read a book at my leisure, and I mean exactly at my leisure. I don't want to wait for someone else to return it, and I don't care for deadlines put on me b/c someone else wants to read it. It's too much like high school required reading in that case. And if I want to read it again (which I frequently do), I don't want to have to go find it again. Also, I like to make notes in my books, and highlight ideas or quotations, or things I want to research later. All of which i can do with my kindle without actually having to have a physical book.
The good news is that if you feel you made the wrong decision, you can send it back within 30 days.
I like to be able to read a book at my leisure, and I mean exactly at my leisure. I don't want to wait for someone else to return it, and I don't care for deadlines put on me b/c someone else wants to read it. It's too much like high school required reading in that case. And if I want to read it again (which I frequently do), I don't want to have to go find it again. Also, I like to make notes in my books, and highlight ideas or quotations, or things I want to research later. All of which i can do with my kindle without actually having to have a physical book.
The good news is that if you feel you made the wrong decision, you can send it back within 30 days.
The price of the Kindle and all the books I buy is pennies compared to what I owe the library in late book check-ins. 
I am surprised that have not come after my house and kids...wait, they might charge me more if they took my kids. 
