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Since acquiring a Kindle 2 in Nov 2009, I have started to read again -- voraciously, like I did as a teenager ("voracious" for me is about a novel a week). Moving through a Kindle 3 and a couple of Kobos has increased the investment in hardware while keeping pace in ebook buying. All of this is money I was not spending before on books; this cash comes out of other entertainment budgets (like DVDs/Blu-ray which I have stopped buying).
I still haven't bought Louise Penny's latest A Trick of the Light because, with taxes, it's over $15. Six months after release, it's still hard cover only and over $20 ... so the ebook is a bargain. The trade paperback is coming out in mid-July at $17 and hopefully that means the ebook will drop somewhat. It's the seventh novel in the series and I haven't read all the others yet ... so I can afford to wait ... and I will.
I acquire occasional freebies, read occasional titles from Mobile Read, or public domain titles from Gutenberg, Kobo or elsewhere, and make use of the public library through Overdrive ... but most of the books I have paid something for and purchased though Amazon or Kobo. On balance I am sure the cost of the books I have read averages closer to $5 than $10.
The problem is there are so many interesting novels out there to sample, my eyes are bigger than my belly: my TBR pile continues to grow. I have about four years in the queue as it is. *sigh*
And to the point of the OP: I have certainly not become Parsimonious since buying an e-reader ... I am still SensualPoet.
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