Reasons why I would purchase books for my library

This week's Top Ten Tuesday is Books I loved so much I had to get a copy for my personal library (Submitted by Alecia @ The Staircase Reader) but I will tweak it a bit to Reasons why I would purchase books for my library. When I say library, I meant one skinny bookshelf and I usually like to get paperbacks or occasionally, when the paperback has a really awful cover, then hardcovers. For more Top Ten Tuesday, visit That Artsy Reader Girl here.

Reasons why I would purchase books for my library:

01 - To re-read them in paper form —  I do re-reads when I don't want to read my current books or if I'm feeling particularly wanting to read a book in paper form since I now mostly read ebooks. I definitely prefer to re-read books in paper format rather than in ebook format.

02 - To love them — I don't know if that's true. Can you be loving a book if you just look at them on the shelf once in a while? Or if you flip through them thinking you might read them but end up not doing so?

03 - So I can have them — Yes, it's a real reason. I do have books that I have never re-read, I just have them after reading them only once. I don't particularly love them and yet, I don't know why I can't give them up.

04 - To display them — No one sees the books but me but I guess it gives me a certain satisfaction to see certain books around me. I suppose this is probably the same as #3. But I do only like to surround myself with books I have read and loved.

05 - To read them later — I would purchase books in paper format of books I haven't read before but I am sure I would love them which is a gamble because if I didn't love them, well, I guess it would be a pity. It's very easy to believe you would love a book even without reading them. I don't do this often because it can get very expensive.

06 - Impulse purchases — With impulse purchases, whatever reason I had when I'm at the store, somehow becomes different when I got the books home. Strangely, I haven't any impulses to buy books these days. I guess since I can borrow books from the library, there is no real reason to buy books unless I just go and make up a reason because who needs a reason to buy a book?

07 - 10 — Because they are books — So I really don't have ten reasons to list but for reasons I can't really explain, I just love owning books (in paperbacks or  hardcovers). My collection is small but it's better than not having any books at all. I think I saw in a movie or perhaps read in a book about a girl with a small collection of books that she kept reading over and over because that's all she have and yet, she enjoyed reading them which kind of makes me wonder if everyone has a small collection of books (even if it's just two or three books), then life would be wonderful but sadly, we can't consume books and live on them.

Do you purchase books to put them in your library because you love them or maybe you don't need any reasons to do so?