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Originally Posted by Ripplinger
Add to that the novelty and convenience of being able to buy ebooks so easily from your easy chair, that most everyone now has a backlog of to-be-read books large enough to last a lifetime... or ten. That's definitely the case in my situation. I'll still grab freebies, even there not as many as I used to either, and still purchase a few new books I'm really interested in, but nowhere near like I used to.
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This is true for me as well. I've started buying ebooks when I got my Kindle Touch in 2011. Up until 2014 I bought everything I could think of that I would ever want, and everything that came along that I thought could also be interesting. (This is mainly the "If you like this, you'll probably like that"-stuff you see when buying new books.) I've also scoured the Reading Recommendation forum here, and bought a lot of stuff I encountered there. One of the examples is the (huge) Malazan Book of the Fallen omnibus.
Now I own almost 800 books, of which over 50 are Delphi Classics (each of which contains all books from an author), and I have a few thousand public domain books by Feedbooks.com on top of that. Those are not even Calibre. If I want to read a PD book, I'll compare the Feedbooks and Delphi versions, and either put the Feedbooks one in Calibre, or extract the Delphi one from the author's omnibus.
I can never read all of this in the next 50 years; I've just built myself a lifetime library, which would have cost me thousands of euro's and entire rooms in the house if I had had to do it in paper. As ebooks, it was cheap to do, using Kobo Coupons, Delphi @ €2-4 per author, and Feedbooks for free.
I have bought very few ebooks in the last 1,5 year. I'm not even actively looking for new books because I already have everything I can think of, and more. The only case I now buy a new book is when something catches my attention and I want to read it as soon as possible. Then I buy it, and read it after I finish my current book (or series).