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Originally Posted by kennyc
[...]Seems a similar situation, and many and varied reasons.  |
Very much so. Everyone seems to have their own biases and habits, and those biases and habits change over time.
There was a period when I tended to follow particular authors, and when one ran out I'd look for similar authors. Then there was a period where I made a point of finding new and different things. But for the last few years I haven't read all that much new stuff (perhaps only a dozen or two each year), instead I've been re-reading a lot. I dare say I'll get back into looking for new again sometime soon...ish.
Much of the new stuff that I have read in the last couple of years has been inspired from comments I've watched going past on MR. After participating here for a while you get a feel for those that seem to like similar books and pay extra attention to the things they report on. That, to me, means more than most of the Amazon reviews, book blurbs and covers I see flooding my screens. Who/how published and even price (within reason) doesn't play that big a part in it.
Another difference I see is that I don't really keep a TBR list as such, or not a long one - no bigger than the handful of books I picked up on the last shopping jaunt. What I read next is very much a mood thing. I do keep a "want" list of books/authors, but I won't dignify that with a title like TBR, it's more like a keep-watch list for when I go shopping, and if I see or think of a book on that list and my mood's right, it gets added to the cart. Some of the stuff's been on that list for many years.
All of which is not all that helpful to authors trying to sell books to me. I self-published my own book hoping that there's not too many out there with habits like mine.
