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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes
... I'm probably going to lament the fact that I just added about six to eight months of time to my TBR list and I'm not even sure if I like horror/thriller anymore.
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Originally Posted by issybird
Freebies have an unacceptably high price, when they usurp precious reading time from what you really want to read.
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If one doesn't truly want to read the freebies, then why should one bother including them in TBR list? On the list of "stuff it would be nice to look at", yes, but the official "I paid for this, I ought to get my money's worth by opening it up and looking at the actual words inside at some point"?
I've got a couple thousand freebies now, just from the official publisher promo giveaways alone. I've read maybe 1% of them, picking only the ones that looked interesting/cracktastic enough that I actually wanted to try them, and I've stopped uncompleted the ones which didn't live up to my level of interest (or turned out to be annoyingly bad).
IMHO, freebies shouldn't count towards the TBR any more than they should count towards the "buying addiction". It's nice if you finish and enjoy one and it leads you to an author you can wishlist and wait for bargain sale, but otherwise they're free potential reads you have absolutely no obligation towards actually reading.