OotP Scholastic edition

[Jennifer Piersol <jenP_97@yahoo.com>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "dradamsapple
<dradamsapple at y...>" <dradamsapple at y...> wrote:

> Good point.  I know that my two older kids (one in 
> 6th, one in 4th) have book reports due almost every 
> month; that means that I visit Borders at least 
> twice a month, depending on when the assignments 
> start.  And, at a prices of anywhere from $4.99 to 
> $10.99 or so per book, (and the token books for my 
> five year old so he doesn't feel left out), that 
> adds up to  at least $20 a month.  Don't get me 
> wrong, I'm not complaining. I know I can drag the 
> kids to the library, but considering the fact that 
> the books seem to get lost once they are done with 
> them, I might as well buy them.  So, my point is, 
> that all of us fan-atics out there (speaking for 
> me, my kids, and nieces and nephews, and parents) 
> will most certainly pay full price for the book 
> because, its Harry Potter after all!!

> Anna . . .

I know, I'm weird, but this really scared me.  I 
have two young kids, and I never thought about how 
my habit of going to Borders (or other bookstore) to 
buy a book rather than the library was going to 
affect me later on.  My older daughter (who turns 
four in 26 days...) is already reading, and has read 
almost every preschooler-aged book in our house.  I 
can see her being as avid a reader as I was in 
elementary school.  The thing was, my dad would 
*rarely* buy me books.  I'd just check them out of 
my school library, and inevitably incurr a few 
dollars in fines every single time because after I 
finished reading them (usually in one or two days), 
I'd lose them in my pig sty of a room.  This does 
not bode well for me.  Not only will my daughter 
have to contend with our newly developed habit of 
buying books, but she's also a very messy, 
disorganized person.

I knew that I was going to be spending a lot of 
money to raise these kids, but darnit... I didn't 
realize I was going to have to pay for books, too!

;)

JenP, hoping *her* childhood books (bought with 
her own money) will interest her kids, too... 
that'd save about $1000.