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Originally Posted by crossi
But what if there are about 100 or so that you really want to read? And only so much time in a day? Gotta pick just one to read first somehow. Thats assuming that you really mean to read all of them if you can just find the time.
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There are at least 2,000 books that I know I want to read, and at least 500 authors I am happy to be able read anything they write.
I imagine that there are 10 times that many that I am just unaware of or have yet to be written.
Publication date, genre, price or popularity do not determine what I will read. I will pick a favorite author often, but I also read at least one new author every two or three weeks. How else will I know what I a missing
. Of course there are over 100 million books to chose from so I must be missing a lot, but that is life.
We are so lucky with ebooks. So many choices in both variety and price.
From the 60's to the 90's I bought most of the books I read and borrowed a few from the library. Occasionally I traded some and sometimes I was given a book, but for the majority of the 200+ books a year I paid what was written on the spine or cover. Full price. In 1999 I moved to the Canadian north where bookstores are few and far between. Whitehorse has one and Yellowknife has 2 that I know of, the places I lived mostly had none. It was the library or the kindness of strangers or no books at all.
Luckily for me, the majority of the books I want to read are available at the library websites and I can wait if necessary.
When I buy a book, price does matter of course, just as with everything else I buy. If I can't afford it, or I think it is priced too high, I just don't buy it. And I certainly wouldn't pay a premium today because it was new or a best seller, but I might have at one time in my life.
Helen