Do you count free books when calculating the average, too? I've got a bunch of free books in addition, but I'm not taking them into account for the average cost; if I did, the average would be $1.80 for books acquired this year.
I went a little overboard with free books earlier in the year, when they finally became available for me as actually free on Amazon instead of the $2.30 they would have cost me earlier (with the $2 surcharge + tax on top of that), but I've cut down on free ones considerably lately, getting them only when they were already on my wish list or when they're trad-pubbed and actually sound interesting. I've mostly focused on reading the ones I've paid money for, though.
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