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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Also, almost all the ebooks I own, I've already read. My next read usually hasn't been purchased yet. I finish a book and then go fishing around the internet for what I might want to read next. I don't really stockpile unread ebooks on any of my hardware. (...) I mean, I'll catch a bargain every now and then, but for the most part, I don't buy an ebook I'm not ready to begin reading immediately.
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This is EXACTLY how I do it. I fish for a book of a certain genre when I feel like reading it, buy it, read it, then take a few days off to think it over and then start fishing again. I have 35 books on my new ereader now.
I only stockpiled twice, before 2 weeks holidays, I bought 6 books in one go where I knew I'd not have access to internet. Stockpiling usually backfires on me because if I do then out of a sudden I don't feel like reading it anymore (one of those 6 books is still unread 2 years later) Bargains are money traps too. This year I bought several series as it was bargain and now they are sitting there looking dirty at me, demanding to be read. Some books I just like to have with me at all times on my reader but I never exceeded 100.
It is just horror for me to think I'd have thousands of books piled up "just in case" to manage in calibre, sort, put in collections, organise and waste my reading time doing that. But as Han Solo said "hey, it's me"