SINGAPORE - I have a guilty confession to make. I am too cheap to buy books. About 90 per cent of the books that I cite in my monthly column are borrowed from the public library in Singapore.
I have great difficulty buying books because the national library is just so good in Singapore. I can borrow 16 physical books, and the same number of e-books at any time, at no cost, and keep them for 21 days.
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