I only ever buy stuff on deep discount sale or other very-time-limited special offer for things I'm reasonably sure I actually want to take the time to read (if only out of sheer morbid curiosity some times, but then I try to do that for free).
But then I'm really cheap and have enough stuff e- and paper- to keep me occupied for a rather long time, so anything "new" had better have a really compelling reason for me to acquire it right at the moment.
Thus far I'm at 50 paid e-book purchases read this year, of which 39 were titles I'd never read before in any format. (I also ended up buying a bunch of books on sale due to having read some freebies as well, though.)
Only a few hundred more to go!
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