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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I generally keep up...
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I'm not even trying.
I bought a Cybook Gen3 reader in 2007, sold it a few months later in 2008, and then went back to paper for three years because nothing I wanted to read was available; and Calibre was still in its infancy.
Then the 2010 e-book boom happened, making almost everything I wanted available, e-readers became usable with a full touch screen, DRM was cracked for both Amazon and ADE, Calibre had matured a great deal, and Sigil had appeared so e-books (epubs) could be edited and fixed if needed.
That was the point where I jumped into e-reading again.
At that time, between 2011 and 2014, I bought hundreds and hundreds of books: Using Kobo coupons, I bought everything I wanted to read, probably wanted to read and possibly wanted to read, bought close to 60 Delphi Classics, downloaded the FeedBooks public domain books (all of them... thanks for using a very clear pattern of storing them, allowing me to write a script to get them, guys), and scrounged up every single Baen Free Library DVD.
Since 2014, I add some books and series here and there on recommendations, but I'm sure I have everything I ever wanted to read... and more.
I'm trying to read all the 70's and 80's fantasy I was too young to read, and I missed half of the 90's because of oblilgatory reading lists in high school. I've had years in which I had to read 80 books a year (separated between Dutch, English, French and German) a year on top of my homework.
So yeah, I just pick up whatever I want, and I don't really care if it was written in 1971 or 2017. In all likelyhood, it'll be older than newer, especially if it's a long-running series.
(And then, I'm even leaving out "The Sword of Truth" and "The Wheel of Time", because I've been reading in the reviews that they're not worth it after the first few books.)