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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
Why don't you then instead of complaining? Your solution to your problem is so obvious that nobody else dared mention it. Simply stop buying books altogether right now. Problem solved, no more worries about unfair book prices. Consider buying your next book after reading what you got.
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Call it complaining if you want, but I see it as a discussion about what is both fair and unfair.
The rest of what you say is nonsensical, but I will answer it anyway, just in case you were serious and not exactly the smartest kid on the block.
Like many, I buy a book, that interests me, when I see it usually, if a fair price or less, just in case I never see it again or forget about it. One could of course make huge lists of such books instead, but not very practical.
I haven't been someone who buys a book then instantly reads it, since I was a teen. Sure that might still happen on rare occasions, but it is far from the norm.
Part of the problem is I love so many authors at this point in time, that it is impossible to keep up with their releases. Then there is the matter of reading what I am in the mood for, then there is other aspects of life that impact your reading.
Inevitably, if you are any kind of decent bookworm, you fall behind.
While I lament that I will never read all I have left to read in my remaining lifetime, not to mention the many I want to re-read, I am not unhappy overall with my situation. In fact I feel like a King, because I can almost guarantee, that I have a brilliant book for many moods, that I can instantly get access to and start reading ... and I'm not just a reader, I am also a collector.
And the way I figure it, publishers should be very grateful to collectors of my calibre, for they have received a ton of my money over the decades.
Here's just a snapshot of my Booklist. It does not include the majority of free ebooks I have gotten from Amazon in the last couple of years.