Of late, I’ve been feeding my jones to acquire by monitoring multiple series. I have enough of those flagged in a certain genre that I’ll commonly get a couple of freebie “hits” in a given week, and watching those lists keeps me from straying into actual costs-money territory.
Well, mostly. Sometimes I’ll see a full-priced volume drop to under three bucks and pick it up on that basis, but not frequently. Most of my paid acquisitions this year have been graphic novel markdowns, which I almost always read immediately. There have been a couple of exceptions, in which sales skipped Book 3 and reduced Book 4, and I picked up Book 4 with confidence that Book 3 will eventually go on sale and I can read both at once.
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