Actually I've been using the LA County library for 8 years now, and I do regard it as my own personal book shelf, forgoing the compulsion to keep and own books. Used bookstores or any non corporate bookstores seem to have a problem staying in business here in southern California. I'm sure it's due to the fact that real estate prices are the highest in the country here which is directly corelated to the fact that people actually WANT to live here, and not some non-descript, sleepy fly-over state. If you're going to make sweeping and unquantifiable statements such as "CA is just not a reading state, nor... a well-educated state", cite your sources, otherwise you sound like a ignorant, sour-grapes bigot.
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Actually I've been using the LA County library for 8 years now, and I do regard it as my own personal book shelf, forgoing the compulsion to keep and own books. Used bookstores or any non corporate bookstores seem to have a problem staying in business here in southern California. I'm sure it's due to the fact that real estate prices are the highest in the country here which is directly corelated to the fact that people actually WANT to live here, and not some non-descript, sleepy fly-over state. If you're going to make sweeping and unquantifiable statements such as "CA is just not a reading state, nor ... a well-educated state", cite your sources, otherwise you sound like a ignorant, sour-grapes bigot.