I was walking around aimlessly in a shopping mall near my office the other day, wondering about without any true sense of direction. The mall was not the ‘in demand’ & ‘happening” category but it caters to the need of office workers around the area and has a few gems such as local styled coffee shops as opposed to the overpriced coffee joints and past-issues magazines to weekend flea market and bric & bracs.
I have seen a shop that sells secondhand books but haven’t found a shop that rents out yet until last week. It was situated in between a few dormant shops and upon looking in, I was pleasantly surprised. The books selection is not that broad, but that should keep my hunger or books appeased for the time being. The charges are also not that bad, and they operate on a sell/buyback scheme. e.g. You buy the book at RM 33 and sells it back to them at RM 28 (normally they take a RM5 fee ). This should help in keeping my already overflowing book racks in check. Also I could check the book out instead of buying it outright and finding that it is only so-so and for the rpice of a new book, I could get 5-6 books to read.
Reading is still not that widespread upon Malaysians, and year in year out the Govt. would come up with schemes to make us reads more. And yes, they have also included the incentive in your income tax that books purchases are tax deductible, but a few meets the allowable limit ( me included due to lost of receipts etc excuses, excuses) Hence with the existence of book renting and book exchange clubs, it should help in getting the reading habit off the ground. I hope that my son would also continue his reading habit, as we keep a strict control on other type of amusements and we would prefer him reading rather than spending time in front of the idiot box.
Now I can check out a few books that were on my read list but didn’t make it to the buy list.
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