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Originally Posted by lol.systema
I normally don't concentrate on budget that much due to the fact that books are hella cheap (specially them discount days.. holy ships do they go low). I actually thought you just purchased books, read them, and kept purchasing.
I guess WE ALL have it worse than addicts.
I mean hell, our case is that of junkies that buy loads of hits and needles and they buy so much they don't get to use it all. On top of it they keep purchasing so they have a room full of hits yet no time to use it all at once.
Jesus, just by thinking that I feel the "nopes" get all over me.
Not gonna buy another book until I've read the ones I have /:
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To be honest, I've gotten over that fear of not being to able to read everything, especailly if the books are free, cheap, or very large.
For example, I've bought a lot of Delphi Classics, that come in at only $3 (and often I bought them at a 25-50% discount!), and contain ALL (or most) of an authors work, they are well laid out, and are very often nicely illustrated. It beats having to look up a nice version of a certain classic; I also dumped a site that had thousands of well laid out classics online. When Kobo has large discounts, I go on buying binges, buying books for €1 or less. (Mostly, I get the well-known, mainstream books from today's authors.)
I see it as stocking up my very own library. I assume (and hope) that there will be some way to read EPUB's in the next 50 years, either natively or by converting them, so I'll see what I read and what I don't.
Still, I'm contemplating to quit or at least slow down buying as soon as I hit 1,000 books (counting the Delphi Classics as one book each) in my library, because at my current pace, that will be about 20 years of reading material for me.