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Originally Posted by bevdeforges
Like others have mentioned, I simply read much more since getting hooked on my Reader. But the other thing is that I pay more attention to book reviews in newspapers and magazines in order to find interesting reading out there.
Never used to be able to do this, as my book buying was limited to my trips back to the US, the rare times I got into Paris to the English bookstores or to making an order from Amazon UK. But now I can put something interesting-looking on my wish list and just wait for the price to come down to an acceptable level.
The one down side is that I've got a number of big, thick books on my TBR list and then I signed up for the 100 book challenge... oh well, I never figured on making 100 books, just wanted to see how close I could get.
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I am in a similar situation. MY e-book reader was a life saver, as books in English are sometimes hard to come by here. I found that it did open me up to other genres, though, once I started reading on my reader.
If you have a lot of big, thick books on your TBR list, you might want to count pages instead of the number of books read. I've seen a lot of people with tickers that have a page count challenge, generally, 30,000 or 50,000 pages in 2011.