I'm more than an avid reader, I'm a rabid reader. But the price of books is rising yearly. Libraries are suffering budget cuts and don't carry as many good titles. Pure crap is being peddled as gold on best-seller lists across the States. I compulsively dog-ear the ones I like.
Books are like that.
They have patience. Individual books that are hyperlinked take you to Amazon's page for that book. The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer M Nancy Macnamara, Ed.