One of the greatest discourses in the modern purchasing demography, is whether purchasing is relevant to today’s generation at all. Technology has increasingly replaced traditional paper-based physical books, whereas, in the same tendon, modern day thinking and our increasing propensity towards being economical has found ourselves new substitutive methods against traditional purchase and preserve mechanisms have also been challenged.

What today seems a better option is the three pronged allegorical mechanism of “rent, read and return”. This is better than the act of purchasing on many different levels. Here’s why-

Economical at an all new level

It does not take a degree in rocket science to understand that the cost of purchasing a book is higher than that of renting one, for obvious reasons. And if you are a seasoned reader, your average monthly cost would eventually tantamount to quite the fortune.

On the other hand, it is rather of convenience to get yourself a book rental library membership to make yourself the beneficiary of an unrestrained array of books on a monthly basis. You might argue that though it does save money, it rather pulls the reign on the time wasted to make repeated trips to the library as an when a book is needed to be issued or returned. But that argument too, would stand negated in the face of the rapid alleviation in phenomenon of online book rental library in India. These are our familiar nomads with a technological twist where even your physical presence at an online book rental library. Pick-up and delivery executives will likewise do the needful, right from your doorstep.

Skipping the penury of maintenance

They say once you read a book, it becomes a part of you. Even more so, once you buy a book, it stays and becomes a part of your daily life too. Needless to say, that you will be more inclined to preserve it. For that you need- an ample amount of space, an appropriate infrastructure to organize all the books according to their genre, author or year which further requires shelling out an ample amount of capital.

Not just capital, if you read up on the intricacies required to maintain a library properly, you will be bamboozled at the amount of time and attention to detail that you have to put in order to do things the right way.