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[Sir_Winston54]

The rule in my family is you could only check out what your arms could carry... so when I was 8 I measured my arms and learned to estimate hoe many books of various sizes I could check out- was it worth it to get 14-16 nice thick ones? Or would it be better to get 20 that were about 150 pages each? LOL

Better to get the 14-16 thick ones, because you'd end up with more pages of reading, since covers are thicker than pages (unless you're getting paperbacks, in which case the difference is negligible).

 

[CutieMouse]

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[snowy ciara]

The rule in my family is you could only check out what your arms could carry... so when I was 8 I measured my arms and learned to estimate hoe many books of various sizes I could check out- was it worth it to get 14-16 nice thick ones? Or would it be better to get 20 that were about 150 pages each? LOL

Well that was a stupid rule.... I would have been a bibliophilic rebel.

 

[graceanne]

The rule in my family is you could only check out what your arms could carry... so when I was 8 I measured my arms and learned to estimate hoe many books of various sizes I could check out- was it worth it to get 14-16 nice thick ones? Or would it be better to get 20 that were about 150 pages each? LOL

LOL My mother would only let me get three books at a time. But I only got to see my dad for one month out of the year, so not only did he spoil me a bit, but I was normally bored out of my mind. My dad had to work all day, and he had to take the car. So I was stuck in the house until he got home, about six. I wasn't allowed to leave cause they lived near downtown Hayward (by San Francisco). So once or twice a week I could nag someone into taking me to the library to get some new books. And they let me get as many as I wanted, cause it kept me from nagging and complaining for at least a few days.