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Originally Posted by Squirsier
So what I did is this : I have a 100+ ebook wishlist in iBooks (I use iBooks simply because it's very easy to see most of your books at once with their prices) and I check once a day for lowered price.
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I have a program I have been using for many years now, that I use to check my Kindle Wishlist with, at least once a day, sometimes twice. It checks the prices and keeps a history record of changes. It has allowed me to study behavior and patterns over that longish period, and things are not the same as when I first started using the program ... behavior has changed and discounts are less often ... at least for the ebooks I am interested in.
I have 187 ebooks on my wishlist, 37 of those marked as favorites, 5 as pre-orders. Those two categories are always checked, and sometimes (far less often) I check the rest ... the rest not being high priority, but I might buy if very cheap.
That program has also allowed me at times, to see when an ebook goes on sale for just a few hours ... then it goes back to its original price or a bit less or even at times a higher price than original.
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I also am a fan of Tor, so I bookmarked their listing on Kobo and check daily for new 2.99 books (sales).
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I've started paying a bit more attention to Tor lately, and I feel both positives and negatives about them. One of the negatives, is the free books they give out now and then. Because I come from AUS and not USA, I am not allowed to get them. I hate that territorial stuff ... idiotic.
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But yeah, I'll never read everything either... I hope my girls develop a taste for the same subjects as their old dad 
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Likewise with my kids.
P.S. Every ebook I buy from Amazon goes into my program, even if I buy it immediately (i.e. all those free Indie ones). So I have a record of when I bought and what I paid as well. Some data from that gets transferred to other programs I use in Excel.