I know a lot of writers fulminate against libraries and used books, but I couldn't be such a hypocrite, as I buy things used all the time.
My ideal (and fairly typical) pattern with an author is:
1) Hear something interesting about an author, or meet them and think they're cool, or see a review, vaguely note the name.
2) Buy something of theirs second-hand, or read it from the library. Read it. Love it.
3) Buy everything else they've written that's in print.
4) Scour second hand bookshops searching for the ones that aren't in print.
5) Buy their new hardcovers as they come out forever.
My Bujold collection is absolutely typical of this, the early ones in scruffy British editions, the middle ones in new-to-me US paperbacks, the newest ones in shiny hardcovers.
This would in fact pretty much always be my pattern if I loved everything I read, which unfortunately isn't the case.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
branchandroot
no subject
Date: 2004-08-07 12:42 am (UTC)My ideal (and fairly typical) pattern with an author is:
1) Hear something interesting about an author, or meet them and think they're cool, or see a review, vaguely note the name.
2) Buy something of theirs second-hand, or read it from the library. Read it. Love it.
3) Buy everything else they've written that's in print.
4) Scour second hand bookshops searching for the ones that aren't in print.
5) Buy their new hardcovers as they come out forever.
My Bujold collection is absolutely typical of this, the early ones in scruffy British editions, the middle ones in new-to-me US paperbacks, the newest ones in shiny hardcovers.
This would in fact pretty much always be my pattern if I loved everything I read, which unfortunately isn't the case.