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ATDrake · 02-05-2011, 07:55 PM

For print books, I mainly buy graphic novels, coffee-table type art books, specialty/academic/reference-type non-fiction items, foreign language books, and the occasional new release/special deluxe collectors editions by certain favourite creators, all of which tend to be considerably pricier than standard hardcover/paperback fiction books even though I try to get them on sale.

So I'm guessing in the neighbourhood of $1000 CAD per year for hardcopies would not be an overly conservative estimate.

For e-books, my reader cost me nothing because it was a gift of sorts, and for a long time I thought I would only make the very occasional purchase given how many free books were out there and the fact that I'm perfectly comfortable with reading paper books from the library.

But then I discovered just how much backlist sf/fantasy by authors I liked was available at reasonably discount prices. I've had my K2 for roughly a calendar year now, and thus far, I've spent enough on e-books to buy myself the latest model and not the cheap lower-end model at that.

So, an estimated additional $200 CAD a year for e-books would probably not be out of line.

02-05-2011, 07:55 PM	#6
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	For print books, I mainly buy graphic novels, coffee-table type art books, specialty/academic/reference-type non-fiction items, foreign language books, and the occasional new release/special deluxe collectors editions by certain favourite creators, all of which tend to be considerably pricier than standard hardcover/paperback fiction books even though I try to get them on sale. So I'm guessing in the neighbourhood of $1000 CAD per year for hardcopies would not be an overly conservative estimate. For e-books, my reader cost me nothing because it was a gift of sorts, and for a long time I thought I would only make the very occasional purchase given how many free books were out there and the fact that I'm perfectly comfortable with reading paper books from the library. But then I discovered just how much backlist sf/fantasy by authors I liked was available at reasonably discount prices. I've had my K2 for roughly a calendar year now, and thus far, I've spent enough on e-books to buy myself the latest model and not the cheap lower-end model at that. So, an estimated additional $200 CAD a year for e-books would probably not be out of line.