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Originally Posted by pdurrant
The 75% off codes from Kobo combined with a backlist of Baen titles I wanted led me to a July total of 23 books for $43.06. But they are all ones I really wanted, except perhaps for two from the Humble Bundle which were essentially free with the two I definitely wanted.
So a little over budget this month, and still $47.61 over budget for the year so far.
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The Humble Bundle was probably my biggest error this month. There are a few books in it I'm sure I will like, and one or two I wanted for box-ticking reasons (ie. they were award-winners, or some such) but there was nothing that I definitely wanted, and that's exactly the sort of thing I should not be falling for.
I already had Healer's War, and was reading it at the time, and thought it was great, if not exactly typical genre fare. It would have been a much more defensible purchase if I hadn't already owned that. Instead I'm annoyed at myself for adding 12 B-list books to my TBR.