A few years ago, I signed up with paperbackswap to trade around books I wasn’t using or were done with, to get more books. Like a used bookstore online.
I wasn’t a huge fan of it at the time; not a lot of users, books I didn’t care for (romances or obscure cooking books). But the service picked up, and I’ve expanded into reading more science fiction and picked Young Adult books back up again, and I’ve been trading, trading, trading. 
One book I kick myself for giving up was my old Strunk and White book. Handy little book, but I was spoiled by daily access to an editor and coworkers who loved kicking around words and flinging the words about until they all finally fit right. Figured I wouldn’t need it for a while, and traded it away. And I found myself recently missing it so.
But my replacement is here … The Elements of Style, Illustrated. Updated, annotated, pretty little pictures as accompaniment (mostly relevant, but I’ve only had a quick glance). I’m happy to have a new (old) friend at my side again. First thing I turned to was the index; it told me that page 112 has covered the decade-old rule revision I’m still fighting, personally: prepositions placed in sentence at the end. Augh.
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