At the risk of sounding like the bloke off the Fast Show... Aren't libraries brilliant?
I mean you go in and it's like this enormous bookshop... but they let you just walk out with the books! Without paying or anything! And all you have to do is promise to bring them back in 3 weeks time... and then they'll hang onto them for you and look after them for you until you want to read them again! It's like having a giant bookcase that you don't have to keep in your lounge!
(and another huge snoggy thank you to Lykeios for the surprise putting-up-the-bookcase-that-IS-in-the-lounge visit earlier)