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Originally Posted by pdurrant
EDIT, June 2012:
In this thread we've come up with three simple guidelines to help us resist the purchase of too many new ebooks.
- Add to wish list rather than buying
- Only buy if on special offer and on your wish list
- Only exception is most recent in series by favourite authors.
And yes, freebies don't count.
EDIT: April 2014:
Some more useful ideas for resisting temptation: - Compare the prospective purchase with the rest of your TBR. Do you want to read it more than 50% of your TBR? If not, don't buy.
- Reading a series? Don't buy the next release until you've finished all the rest, unless it's 90% off or more.
* I don't think I can possibly resist getting interesting-looking free ebooks
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A bit of New Year organizing made me realize I have a problem. I have paperbooks and ebooks floating around that I plan to read *someday*. So many, that when I see a sale on a book I'm interested in, I can't remember if I've already bought it. So I started a shelf on LibraryThing of 'books I own but haven't read' that ended up with 182 entries. Hmmm... that's many, many years of reading even if I never buy another book or borrow any from the library.
What caught my eye on this thread (besides the title) was this very good strategy:
Compare the prospective purchase with the rest of your TBR. Do you want to read it more than 50% of your TBR? If not, don't buy.
which I'm going to practice this coming year. The other thing I'm going to do is go through my list of books and cull out any I don't think I'd ever read, even on a desert island. That's probably no more than 20-30, though.
So, I'm starting out 2018 with 182 books on my 'own but haven't read' list. We'll see how it goes this coming year....
After a hard look at my ebooks the list is now culled down to 153 books.