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haertig · 04-06-2019, 11:51 AM

Thanks for the replies. I guess I will start being more aware. I think a lot of the ones I have run into were ones I purchased prior to knowing such junk existed. One I did know about before purchase, but only bought it as an omnibus (complete story) after it was completed, was "Wool". Actually, it had already been completed by the time I even heard of it. So I lucked out there when buying the omnibus, but I had already "purchased" the first mini-installment (I say "purchased", because it was a freebie bought for $0.00 from Amazon).

Guess I was late to the game in finding out about this stupid new trend. I only made the switch to eBooks a few years ago. I never had to worry about this installment plan for books when reading paper. I suppose they do indeed have paper books that work like this, but I don't shop in the pamphlet section of the bookstore, so I never ran into any of them.

04-06-2019, 11:51 AM	#6
haertig Wizard Posts: 1,924 Karma: 33156336 Join Date: Sep 2017 Device: PW3, Galaxy Tab A9+, Moto G7	Thanks for the replies. I guess I will start being more aware. I think a lot of the ones I have run into were ones I purchased prior to knowing such junk existed. One I did know about before purchase, but only bought it as an omnibus (complete story) after it was completed, was "Wool". Actually, it had already been completed by the time I even heard of it. So I lucked out there when buying the omnibus, but I had already "purchased" the first mini-installment (I say "purchased", because it was a freebie bought for $0.00 from Amazon). Guess I was late to the game in finding out about this stupid new trend. I only made the switch to eBooks a few years ago. I never had to worry about this installment plan for books when reading paper. I suppose they do indeed have paper books that work like this, but I don't shop in the pamphlet section of the bookstore, so I never ran into any of them.