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Originally Posted by Yapyap
You still did better than I did with that part - I was sort of also aiming at not buying more than 120 books this year, i.e. same as my to-read challenge, and now it's mid-November and my spreadsheet tells me I've bought 270 ebooks (for myself; I'm not counting the ones I've bought for mum, which I may or may not eventually read myself) + a few dozen paper books.
Still, compared to last year's 436 bought (i.e. non-free) ebooks, it's a marked improvement, I'd say.
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Wow. Well, on the bright side, that it an improvement.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do next year. For 2010-2012 inclusive, I read 545 books and bought 609. Including 2013 to date, the figures are 728/816.
So I suppose that overall, that's an increase in TBR of only 22 books per year.
But I really do need to reduce my TBR pile. I think that restricting the amount of money I spend on ebooks is probably the best thing to try in 2014. If I can keep it at about a fiver (£5) a week, that would be good. That comes to about $400.
Hmm… Let's see. Analog, Asimov's, F&SF come to $90/year. Grantville Gazette is another $27. It's the Baen bundles that are the big ticket item. 12*$18 =$216. So that's a total of $333, leaving just $67 or $5.58 per month for discretionary spending. Hmmm…. perhaps I can manage that next year.