Buying Or Borrowing Books Reading books is regarded as acquiring precious treasure so that there are more and more people starting reading books now. However, people are always confused about which way they should choose to get books, buying or borrowing? As a matter of fact, both ways have their own advantages and disadvantages. We can get the book forever and read it at any time by buying it, but it can increase our expenses. On the other hand, borrowing books can reduce our financial pressure, and yet if we forget what we read in the books, we must borrow it again, the process of which is also a time wasting for us. Therefore, you shouldn’t judge that one is surely better than the other. What you really need to do is think about which kind of book you want to read. Everyone reading books has his own purpose. You can select books out of your aim, and choose books by telling their kinds apart. As for novels, borrowing them is a nice choice because in common situation you only need to know the whole story and its related theme, not to know its specific plots except for some particular situation. For poets, buying them is a better choice than borrowing them, the reason of which is that the language and controlling ideas are worth reading and understanding repeatly. Of course, there are also have some special occasions which are determined by the environment that you stay. For example, if your teacher ask you complete reading a designated book within one month, and an unfortunate thing happened: all the books has been sold, What should you do? The only way is to borrow the books or surf the internet to find the books. In a word, buying or borrowing books depends on your own purpose and situation.