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Originally Posted by DrNefario
Oh dear. It's all gone hideously wrong since my last post a few days ago.
August
Bought: 14 (£16.95)
TBR Drop: -14
What looks like a pricing error means I've bought 3 omnibuses containing a total of 16 books in the last two days. (I already had 4 of the books, and have also bought 2 other books, which is how it ends up at 14.)
I don't think I have much chance of earning that out before the end of August, even if I don't gain any more books. I might be able to get back ahead on the year, but so far I've broken even or better in every individual month of 2018. I don't think I even have many short stories and novellas left to cheat with.
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Well, I thought I might have had an outside chance of earning back my 14-book deficit, even though my best month so far this year was 12, but things have moved on since then and now I'm at -28 for the month. And I'm probably not done.
The thing is, though, it's only 7 purchases. It would have been more ridiculous to pass up the 10-book omnibus to just buy the next in the series for the same price.
In fact, thinking about it, I have been quite restrained except for the two largest omnibuses. Of the 7 purchases, 4 are omnibuses. 1 (3 books) was already on my wishlist. Another (3 books but I've already read one) contains the book that was on my wishlist and is the same price as the book on its own. It's the other two that are problematic. The 10-book omnibus is sort of on my wishlist - my policy is only to list the next book in a series, and I already own the next 2 books in this series, so it wasn't actually on my wishlist but is a series I am reading. Today's 14-book omnibus is the one I haven't read and wasn't wishlisted. It is a series I occasionally think about starting, and keep an eye on in charity shops, but I guess it is true that it was the sale price that convinced me, here.
Anyway, I need to get some reading done...