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stxopher · 10-10-2008, 08:28 AM

Other. I pick up a lot of books but not just to get them.

I do end up getting quite a few books that aren't in the reading que right now but that doesn't mean they got downloaded just to be downloaded. Almost every one of them was chosen because I wanted to read it either right now or sometime in the future. When I can I try to pick up full series after reading the first book if I can.

Why not wait until I'm ready to read them? Like others posted earlier, in this bizzarro commercial world you need to get things when you see them or run the risk of them being "temporarily unavailable" in perpetuity later on when you finally get around to them. Especially when dealing with things that won't change given time (books as opposed to the readers that they go on).

10-10-2008, 08:28 AM	#40
stxopher Nameless Being	Other. I pick up a lot of books but not just to get them. I do end up getting quite a few books that aren't in the reading que right now but that doesn't mean they got downloaded just to be downloaded. Almost every one of them was chosen because I wanted to read it either right now or sometime in the future. When I can I try to pick up full series after reading the first book if I can. Why not wait until I'm ready to read them? Like others posted earlier, in this bizzarro commercial world you need to get things when you see them or run the risk of them being "temporarily unavailable" in perpetuity later on when you finally get around to them. Especially when dealing with things that won't change given time (books as opposed to the readers that they go on).