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Originally Posted by cfrizz
I like the idea of bundles so long as the download contains three books that are separate books. If it is just one big file with no clear separate books, I wouldn't be interested even if it did save me money.
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+1 on this. I do NOT want all my series books lumped into a single file.
Cutting out "superfluous" pages has no value to me -- and possibly a bit of a drawback.
Cutting them has no value because you can't be saving more than a few pages (what, 10? tops?) per book, all for the low, low cost of making it harder for me to find my place, particularly if my eReader-of-choice doesn't respect whatever nested TOC that has probably been implemented. (We've ALL gotten those "classics!" anthologies where each TOC entry is 1,000+ pages apart. Ugh.)
Cutting them has a potential drawback because the author wrote those prologues for a reason. I'm not sure how comfortable I am with just excising them entirely... not to mention the fact that just because you've chucked an entire series into one file doesn't mean people are going to read it cover to cover -- they may
want those recaps.
Also, this:
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Originally Posted by Freeshadow
 
D'uh and I tought I 'd never read anything more silly than "kernelupdates would be perfect if the restarts wouldn't screw up my uptime."
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Some people do care about tracking how many books they've read in a year. GoodReads makes that easy, with lots of groovy import options. You don't need to understand it, but you should probably accept that just because someone likes tracking their stats doesn't mean they're reading to "show off".
I recently switched to the Kobo app on my phone because I REALLY REALLY REALLY like their reading stat tracker. I'm not showing it off to anyone, nor am I even trying to "improve" anything or collect all the badges. I just like tracking my reading habits. I'm sure I'm not the only one.