Sentence examples for library buying from inspiring English sources

I spent nearly every Saturday afternoon of my childhood choosing three or four plastic-wrapped hardbacks from our local library; buying books was a special treat for birthdays or Christmas.

And while browsing in a local library, buying a book – with cash – on the high street, and reading at home or on the bus are pretty anonymous activities, as soon as ebooks are involved they're not.

She buys almost no books these days and instead checks books out of the library, buying only tomes she really wants to own forever.

"When a library buys books," Mr. Smith said, "it chooses the books one by one".

In a fit of exuberant progressiveness, the school library buys the entire Booker Prize shortlist.

The library bought most of its Proust archive from Marcel Proust's niece, who inherited it from her father, his brother.

Publishers have said that libraries must treat digital collections the same way they treat physical collections: if a library buys 10 copies of a certain book, for instance, then only 10 copies can be digitally checked out at one time.

James La Rue, director of the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom, speculated to Associated Press that its inclusion was down to "people who feel that if a school library buys a copy of the Bible, it's a violation of church and state".

Although partially sighted, I still use the library, buy physical books and persevere with a magnifier – but I find ebooks so much easier if what I want is digitised.

As well as adding new books, the library buys from antiquarian booksellers and at auction, although Mr Gonizzi says the prices asked can sometimes be hard to digest.The library has the largest collection of works on cookery open to the public in Italy; unsurprisingly, the sections dealing with food technology and Italian cooking are very well stocked.

For years, public libraries building their e-book collections have typically done so with the agreement from publishers that once a library buys an e-book, it can lend it out, one reader at a time, an unlimited number of times.