I’m giving the library some love in 2022

Get ready to clutch your pearls and gasp in shock, but I, a book blogger and bookstagrammer, primarily read via e-book and audiobook. I’ll give you a moment to recover.

Okay, we good?

Right. So I very rarely pick up a physical book to read, and yet I love books as objects and I still want physical copies of the ones that I love, authors and series’ that I collect, but I’m actually probably not going to read that physical book. As you can imagine, this makes the visual media side of book blogging a bit tricky when I don’t have a pile of physical books at the end of the month to show for my reading.

Thank goodness for the library.

I one day had a lightbulb moment that DUH libraries let you borrow books for free, and it doesn’t matter if I don’t read that physical copy and use it for social media instead. It was a bit of a revelation and I felt like a total idiot for not putting that together earlier… So in 2022 I’m going to the library more. In fact, I just got back from picking up a few holds.

I love the freedom that comes with a library. What if I don’t like it? What if I don’t get around to it? What if I fall head over in heels in love with it? All the same to the library, and to my bookshelf and bank account. There really are no losers when it comes to library books.

Want to know what I’ve checked out from the library in 2022 so far? Of course you do.

I loved ‘The Stranding’ (review here!), had very mixed feelings about ‘Milk Fed’, changed my mind about reading ‘Catherine House’ yet as t’ll be in season one of the podcast (please check out ‘The Dark Academicals’ on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or Cast Box), and the other three are brand new to me and waiting to be discovered.

And the best thing about these library books? I get to go and check out more whenever I fancy.

Are you a library person? What format do you like to read your books in?

Written by Sophie