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Old 01-10-2014, 03:14 AM   #13
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Any book that I'd before buy in a paperback edition, I now get a digital copy.
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I have some hardcopy books that hold sentimental value, but not all that many.
I still have a rather sizable Ent cemetery, but I've almost completely switched over to digital for new purchases. Amazon's decision to discontinue their 4-for-3 paperback deal in favor of a 10% discount from MSRP helped a lot in that respect. Just about the only physical books I buy these days are graphic novels, and I've even bought a few of those digitally now.

Slowly but surely, I'm replacing those dead trees with electrons. I watch the prices and deals, and when the time is right, I pounce...and then sell the replaced physical versions in periodic lumps. There are exceptions, though; I have a decent collection of signed physical books that I have no plans to get rid of, even after getting electronic copies.

For the sake of illustration, I have about 400 physical books on my TBR stack, and about 650 more ebooks to read. The physical stack is holding steady, just because I'm barely adding to it and it takes more effort to dig something out of there than to search my ereader for something. Still, I am making that effort, slowly but surely whittling away at the physical stacks when feasible. I'm trying to develop the habit of catching up with a physical series, then switching to the ereader for a couple of books, then going physical again - back and forth, paring both stacks down. It's not easy, but it needs done.
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