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Originally Posted by issybird
Well, this strikes me as somewhat arbitrary.  Why five years? I'd argue that's far too big a backlog and that tastes can change in a much shorter time frame. To state the obvious, money spent on an unread (or unlistened to) book is money wasted. So if you want a cushion against hard times, why not put the money you'd have spent on deals now for future consumption into an earmarked piggybank? And spend it with a clear conscience down the line on the book you want to read most right away? |
Not unreasonable, although it's a little hard to do that when buying online requires a credit card (Amazon doesn't use gift cards for ebook purchases, as an example) although some of the smaller places use Paypal. On the other hand, if those Visa cards that you can buy at Walgreens don't have an expiration date, you can buy one once a year to use against all your ebook/audiobook purchases once you have enough saved. Different world than saving cold hard cash in an envelop and walking into a books tore, which is what I did before my vision damage.
As an addendum to Dr Drib: I wonder if you can score a US Visa prepaid card to use in these sort of instances? Also note that Chirp does take Paypal. You can have a Paypal account in most countries and use your native credit card for the transaction.