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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes
Two months to go. I don't want to jinx it, but I am getting close to surviving the year without spending a single penny on books for me.
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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes
Lol. It is partly true, but books for my five year old are a good investment in my opinion. Books for me, not so much.
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Congrats on your restraint. And reading with a five-year old is a joy, so you're getting your fun out of those purchases, too. (Why yes, I miss getting to read picture books! And the gems among the regular kids' books that haven't been dumbed down in vocabulary or concept. A five-year is a good audience for those, too. Especially fun when you get to do voices.)
As for me, I bought a couple of wishlist books at Kobo with the current discount. I was going to buy the J.I.M. Stewart
Staircase in Surrey quintet, but I forgot that House of Stratus is uncouponable. I'd like the series for $20, but not for $40.
I find that one thing that makes it easy for me is that I'm not buying at either end of the pricing spectrum. My biggest mistake in the past was all those "bargains" for $4 and less where the price made the sale. They languish on my Calibre B-list and there they will remain, an object lesson that adds up to quite the tidy sum, I'm afraid. I don't regret pricey purchases, just the cheapies.
At the other end, most of my wishlist books are close to $20 or more and either not available at Kobo or not discountable or both. If ever I felt I must read one of the non-BPH books, I could use my Prime no-rush shipping credit to allay the cost a bit at Amazon, but I doubt that'll happen. So now that I'm over bargains and most of the books I really want are cost-prohibitive, it's not much of a problem. Frankly, and I shouldn't admit it here, I'm struggling to find anything I want at Kobo to use the 50% discount on.
So there you have it. Pricing strategies are keeping me on the strait and narrow.