Your Library Options

While I'm not a beginner in the occult, one of the things that I would love to have is my own occult library. Here's the conflict. I don't know whether to shell out the money for the books, or just print them out, put them in a binder, and leave it like that. Personally I feel its more attractive to have the physical book there in my hands, but then again, printing out the pdf's is a good way to write notes on the print out, and record experiences. What do most of you do, and would recommend? Thanks for reading.

I fully agree. While I get scads of information off the internet and wherever else I can, there is nothing that will ever be able to replace books. A library is probably the most valuable tool of a working magician, not just for the information itself but for the space and the energy it retains. There is a theory that books retain energy every time they have energy focused on them, so having a large library has similar effects to setting up magicshop on a ley line. The same theory also suggests that just having a very old book that has passed through a lot of hands, like one of those dusty falling apart dictionaries, can increase the power and energy of a ritual space. Personally I put a lot of value in books and just like having them around.