I feel like the luckiest kid in the world. I’m obsessed with reading material and I have access to reading material. I’m not in the best of financial situations, but I am still able to further my own development by buying great books—about business, about people, about the world. And I have a little bit of cash left over to spend picking up fiction I once loved on eBay. (Isn’t it crazy and wonderful that I can say, “Man, I want to reread those Spenser novels, but I don’t want to spend a ton of money getting each one shipped individually. I wonder if someone’s selling some old copies all together…” and actually find them? At a ridiculously awesome price?)
I can imagine being in worse positions. If I had absolutely no funds available for book buying, there’s the internet, there are a bunch of great libraries around Austin, I have friends who are happy to lend me books. Of course, this way I get to dog-ear and mark up my copies to make them lessons, make them mine, and learn more from them (something that’s proven invaluable over many years). I have a hard time imagining not being interested in new information, or just not enjoying reading. I tend to think I do well at imagining myself in someone else’s shoes, but that’s somewhere that’s very hard for me to go.
As a consequence of recent events, I say I’m solid on reading material for the next six months. A few more !MBA / business books are on the way, and the Spenser lot should hold me for fiction for a little while. (Those are short, sweet, and SUPER awesome.) But I’ve already got a good thirty books in three piles sitting next to me, and I’m planning my information attack for the next few weeks. I am stoked!
In addition to all that, I’m playing with Delicious Library and I joined Goodreads (we’ll see how that goes). Feel free to friend me if you use it too—possible book discussion venue!
I hope you’re having as great a day as I am!
