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Originally Posted by jbcohen
What's the max you will pay for any book? I am getting to the point where I will pay $8 tops.
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I spend between $2000-$4000/yr for reference books. Usually it hovers on the lower end but when I have/need either new or updated references I buy them as soon as it's in the budget. This is not recreational reading material it's business related and required if I want to earn a living and ahead of the curve with the competition. While I always have a budget to stick with I don't mind the prices for well researched and accurate reference books. Most are in the $40-$200 range but a few run nearly $1000 these days.
As for ebooks...I have paid $9.99 a couple times but did not like it. My true comfort zone is just under to cost of a matinee movie where I live, or $6 max.
A book is only worth what it gives me...reference books have made me 1000x their cost over the decades but recreational books never made me a penny. I stopped buying paperbacks new when the cover prices reached the $6.99 and went exclusively used. As I recall that was around 15-yrs back. I do admit a fondness for trade Pb's over mass market Pb's but don't care when they are used. I find that most all of my trade Pb's are much better constructed and last for many more readings. But anymore I have zero need to buy printed recreational reading books. And as a bonus my references are moving to ebook format though quite slowly as until we have large format color readers (don't care about screen tech just need slate form factor) the current readers are useless.