This may sound completely obvious, but I highly recommend joining your local library!
When I was a kid we all belonged to the local library and borrowed books regularly. When my now 6.5 year old was a baby, we used to go to Newtown library for Reading Time, but since we moved 5 years ago, we haven't actually visited the library at all. Considering we're trying to reduce the purchases we make, it's crazy that we haven't been borrowing books from the library!
Day three of Winter school holidays, and one of my daughter's school friends had just been to the library and was showing her the books he borrowed this morning. We had no firm plans today, so headed up to the library and joined. We found five books she was excited to read, joined up and headed home.
Turns out there's also a whole online Library that comes with the membership too, where you can read online, or order books to be collected from your local library. If you're in the 'Inner West Council', which used to be Marrickville Council, here's the link.
Now we have all the books we can possibly want to read, and don't have to waste money buying them all, or waste space storing them all in our house.
