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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
I just went on a spree of downloading free eBooks. Well, it didn't cost anything? And they're all ones that look somewhat interesting to begin with. If I start downloading stuff I'd never read, I might have more cause to worry.
But I did end up adding a few more books to my exponentially-growing wishlist.  |
Free ebooks are a slippery slope. You have to be very selective or you end up with a lot of trash that takes away from good books and books you paid for. In addition, your cloud library gets really full over time. Two or three years ago, I culled most of the free books from my Amazon cloud and those still of interest went into a Calibre library marked FREE BOOKS. Then deleted out of the cloud. If I read one of those books and really liked it, Amazon Customer Service will restore the book to my library (you just search for the order number in your orders). Once in a while you hit on something good. Author Will Wight had most of his books for free for a brief time last year. Glad I got them all because I really liked that first story. Eventually, I will get to the rest.
Generally, I don't count free books in my TBR unless they were backlist for series already reading.