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Originally Posted by ReadingManiac
One of my end of year resolutions is to start going through my collection of free acquisitions and treat them like samples. Maybe spend a month reading nothing else. I tend to delete the majority of samples without buying.
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Whatever works for you, but. . . . It sounds like sheer torture to me. Couldn't you read your good stuff and "sample" your freebies over time, if you feel you must? Wasting a month of good reading time reading junk seems the total opposite of frugality to me.
I tend to think that, especially the larger one's freebie collection, it's most time and cost-effective to abandon the lot and start fresh, being very, very picky about adding freebies (i.e., books you'd have been willing to spend at least some money on). But if you can't bear a wholesale deletion, chipping away at it over time seems the best strategy to me, especially as you learn your lesson about the "value" of freebies in the process.