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intheflow

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6. Moving too often with too many books is why I became a librarian.

Reply to buzzycrumbhunger (Reply #4)

Fri Jul 10, 2026, 08:12 AM

16 hrs ago

Not the only reason, but now I can store the vast majority of “my” books at a municipal building. I still have far too many books, but now I have a rule that I have to love a book so much I check it out of the library 3 times before I’ll buy the book for myself.

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