[Lutraa]

I read mainly Lit Fic (including stories), history, natural history, and biography. I'm not really into most genre writing with the exception of truly well-written mystery and historical fiction. Having just tried searching for several favourite authors and browsed the categories, I'm not seeing anything of interest in KU's catalogue that isn't already in the Prime library, in the public domain, or available in hard copy for a few dollars from my large, well-stocked local used book store. Which buys them back at half what I pay. Maybe KU's offerings will improve but unless this happens, I'm not wasting $120/year. My TBR list is huge and my backlog of already downloaded books would take me several months to finish. Subscriptions like this tend to get used for the first month or two, then forgotten -- there are just too many forms of entertainment competing for my limited leisure time if I am to fulfill work, exercise, sleep, and household duties.

I liken this new offering to a grab bag of cheap candy (some stale) v. a far more expensive, smaller box of high quality chocolate. I'll take the latter!