I also love Fern Michaels and I'm like you loz...a voracious reader. I go to the local Goodwill and stores like that and buy up 10 to 20 paperbacks at a time at about .25 to .50 a piece. Also buy books by my favorite authors and then after awhile, I take them all back to a Goodwill so they can sell them again.
When I was in San Francisco last month I got to see Danielle Steele's house....WOW! It is fabulous! It sits on a hill (go figure, in San Francisco) that slopes down toward the bay, so she has wonderful views! I've read all of her books (and seen most of the movies) but the book is always better, whether we're talking Danielle Steel, Louis L'Amour, Steven King, or ayone else....don't you agree??