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Originally Posted by Wald07
I have amassed over 1200 e-books.  And I keep buying more, plus getting 10 + free everyday from amazon.  Even if I read one per day, I have enough reading material for about four years, and that's if I quit today..  .. I've only just realized this in this instant.. I am an addict!  Holy scrap, I just skipped a biscuit.
I've spent about $300 @ Kobo since Christmas...  |
Welcome to the thread! You're among friends. And, more importantly, people who understand what you're going through.
Don't worry about the freebies. You're almost certainly never going to read them, so don't stress about it. Feel free (sorry!) to carry on getting any free ebooks you want to. Just don't add them to your "To Be Read" pile unless you really want to read them, and might have bought them if they weren't already free.
In this thread we've come up with three simple guidelines to help us resist the purchase of too many new ebooks.
- Add to wish list rather than buying
- Only buy if on special offer and on your wish list
- Only exception is most recent in series by favourite authors.
The reason for these rules/guidelines is this: We all already have lots of books we want to read that we've already bought. It's rare for ebooks to increase in price. Therefore, we should not buy new ebooks that we want until they are on special offer.
In this way we make our large TBR lists work for us, by making sure that we only buy ebooks when they are on special offer. We spend less, and slowly work down our TBR lists.