“I promise I’ll just look. I won’t buy anything.”
“Since I bought a lot of books already, I will ban myself from buying more for the rest of the year.”
These are just some of the lies that book lovers tell themselves. Again and again, we promise not to buy more books, but we end up doing so anyway. Last year, I decided to track the books I bought and their respective prices. At the end of the year, I analyzed my book-buying habits, and here are the results.
I bought a total of 60 books and spent a total of Php23,024.00. This is quite a huge amount for me to spend on books, but this includes 14 law books, which were not cheap. I bought my leisure books from National Bookstore, Fully Booked, and BOOKSALE while my law books were either from Rex Bookstore, CentralBooks, or Sebio. The cheapest book I bought was Php20 while the most expensive was Php2,168.
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Kind
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Quantity
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Price
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Leisure Books
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46
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Php7,462
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Law Books
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16
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Php15,562
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TOTAL
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60
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Php23,024
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Buying books is one of the most relaxing moments for book lovers. We just love adding to our library and discovering new stories and learning new things. But sometimes, we take it too far and end up stocking more than we could read. I will continue tracking the books I will purchase in 2018, and hopefully, I’d do better this year.
What books did you buy in 2017? Share it in the comments section below.
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