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Originally Posted by PandathePanda
Me hath a problem, me can't say no to free ebooks me are offered  . And no not that kind of "free ebooks", you get on P2P sites, mine come from authors & Publishers, Sux being on their mailing list sometimes. My TBR pile is so long right now, I need to be reincarnated at least 4 times to finish them all, and I know of about another ~300 pbooks that will end up on my book rack sooner or later, depends when my Mom-in-law sends them over to me. And then their is amazon's free ebooks each day, but got a lot more selective there, Kindle scout is another place I view regularly.
The one publisher offered 8 free ebooks this week, I was able to reign myself in and only ask for 2, one is free on amazon, and one I got free earlier in June. |
The thing is: Free ebooks don't count. No, really. You can get as many free ebooks as you like, add them to calibre and forget about them. They cost no money and take up no shelf space.
It's paid for ebooks that are the problem. It's so easy to spend money on ebooks, and yet not read them for years (or ever). What we must do is not buy ebooks just because they look vaguely interesting and are on offer for £0.99. We should read ebooks from our TBR and only buy ebooks that we really want to read, and even then, mostly only they these wanted books are on special offer.
Doing this helps to reduce our TBR pile of bought but unread books (mine is currently around 750 ebooks!), and also ensures that our TBR contains good value books that we really want to read.
But free ebooks? Whatever. You might at some time in the future be recommended an ebook and find you already have it in your library as a freebie. But I don't usually add the freebies to my TBR pile. They just get added to calibre.