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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
I see, so there is different levels of "freebie-addicts" out there.
To me it makes very little sense to buy any book that is on sale, just in case. Even at $1 a book that will get expensive fast - possibly a lot more than paying full price for every book you do end up reading. Grabbing every freebie you can get your hand on every day surely leads to a bunch of books you are not even mildly interested in? So freebies should at least catch your interest a little bit. The books in the public domain are going to be in the public domain - so why hord them? Even those you download should be preselected according to your reading interests.
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]Different mindsets. Hoarding of ebooks is less intrusive than hoarding of other items. And I am sure that most don't grab every ebook that happens along.
But there are so many and so many ways to find them. it is easy to get a large amount that you would actually like to read and then forget what attracted you to them in the first place.
And I am sure you are aware that there are many people on MR who buy and pay for more books than they can comfortably read and yet keep buying more. Long as it does not keep food from the family table, totally up to them
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You were reading me wrong. I might have worded it a bit harsh, but I wanted to avoid steering into the wrong direction. Of course I am aware that it only takes a few minutes to slip down into the dark net and just grab anything you like. And I am not accusing anybody. Here on MR it doesn't take long until a mod shuts down and/or bans people for suggesting, linking to, attaching any pirated material. I been here long enough to see it happen, I am sure you have to.
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Good to know that you did not mean to imply that the OP was doing anything wrong or that a judgemental thought never entered your brain based on no evidence.
I don't actually see anything wrong or even strange about having a lot of public domain or purchased or freebies. Better than having your house full of old newspapers IMO
I am not a rereader in general although who knows, that could change. But I regularly download public domain ebooks that I read in paper as a child when I see them. Some weird nostalgia thing. I don't hunt them down, but if they are available, and I stumble across them, I like to have them. A harmless eccentricity IMO but I am sure there are many who would take me to task.
Helen