$6.99 – WHAT A DEAL!!!

 

It costs $6.99 plus tax to buy an average book these days.  If you have a Kindle or a Sony Reader, it’s less than that, but I only want to talk about physical paperbacks today. 

For $6.99 plus tax, you get a few hours of intellectual stimulation, fun, and the ability to transport yourself through time and space.  If we ever do get to the point we can “beam me up, Scottie” I doubt it would cost you only $6.99.  Plus tax.

For that $6.99 plus tax, you get something solid that you can throw at the dog if he’s attempting to use the carpet as a rest area, something to squash a bug, an object to balance the coffee table that’s sagging on one side.  You can lust after the cover model, doodle on the inside cover, draw a moustache on the author and blacken out her teeth.  You can give the book (without bug squashes and pet stains) to your mother to read, or your sister, or your friend and have great arguments about the merits of the book, or long, giggling phone conversations about how gawdawful it was. 

For $6.99 plus tax you get ideas about how to seduce your husband, or if that’s out of the question, you can just dream.  You get laughter, tears, annoyance, the ability to exercise your eyes as you roll them up into your head, fear as you’re reading a mystery and hear a strange sound from the attic/basement/great room. You become convinced that the human race deserves to die off, or is here to stay and aren’t we wonderful?   

In other words, even during tough financial times, there’s nothing like a book. Especially in tough financial times, a book is the best bargain you can find.