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Originally Posted by xg4bx
I went a bit overboard tonight and spent about $50. I needed the new Brandon Sanderson, I needed the new Robert Conroy, there's a new Dune novel next week, etc. It adds up very, very quickly.
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That sounds bad. But perhaps it's because you don't have ENOUGH of a TBR pile? If you have a TBR pile of books you want to read, you can hold off on some off the new books until they drop in price or there's a special offer. For example, by not buying the new David Weber Safehold series book the instant it appeared, I managed to get it when the Kobo 90% off code was valid last weekend.
Even if it's a book you *must* read now, you should not buy more than one of them at a time if they're not on special offer. You can't read two of threee 'must read' books at a time (well, I can't), so why not just buy one, and see if an offer turns up on the others before you need to buy them?
By careful management of a TBR you can reduce your expenditure considerably.
Which leaves more money for more books.... which is where the plan sort-of fails, of course. Says the man with an 800+ TBR.