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Old 12-07-2014, 11:02 AM   #54
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Originally Posted by Demingy View Post
It doesn't take long because I just check the posts in the freebies/discount forum and the One Hundred Free Books website (ohfb.com) which regularly posts a bunch of the books available for free on Amazon. I've found several "diamonds in the rough" so I can't help but continue to collect the freebies.
I've been on eReaderIQ for ages, and the sister site freereadfeed.com pretty much daily. They feature free and discounted Amazon books, and I can set alerts to when certain Amazon books drop below a certain price. I've gotten a lot of Wishlisted books that way, when the author decides to make it free for a time. It's harder to see how many free Amazon books since they changed the one site a bit, but the usual number of new, free Amazon books usually ranged anywhere from 300 to almost 2,000 a day. Every day, for a few years now. Some are repeats, but the new ones come up pretty often.

Although the number drops quite a bit if you put the Adult Filter in use.

Even picking up a few of the more interesting ones adds up pretty quickly. Most now are in KindleUnlimited, so I don't pick up as many as I used to, but figure it's a lot easier to delete the ones I don't like later than to find out I wanted to read it but now have to pay because I missed it on offer.

I have the time, I have the space, I'm not depriving anyone else of a copy, so it's a daily visit for me and part of my breakfast ritual. In exchange, I do hit the freebies fairly often, and leave a review. For the most part, I've been pleasantly surprised by the freebies. I've had more disappointments by author published Pros, and some I've followed for a while, when they seem to lose interest in their series, or seem to just phone it in.

And if I do start something that isn't working, I have no problem deleting it. I don't mind it since I do find a true jewel once in a while, and a new author to follow.

And that's not to even mention my Fanfic collection. I seriously burn through those, so collect new stories a couple of days a week. Some are novel length.
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