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Originally Posted by darryl
...there is always the option of purchasing a KU Book.
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That is why I used KU the way I did. As an extended preview, where I could see parts of the entire book if I wanted, to create a list of books "to be purchased" or at least "considered for purchase". KU books are generally cheap to buy. Sure, sometimes I would read an entire book using KU. But I know I sampled more than I read fully. A minor portion of the KU books I sampled made it onto the purchase list. Any only some of the books that made it onto the list actually ended up being purchased. I found Amazon's default sampling "Look Inside!" to be adequate for some books, but for other books you never even made it past the acknowledgements and other front-end stuff to see if the writing of the actual story was something your would like to read. KU provided a great alternative for better sampling. With the added advantage that you could actually read the book in its entirety if you felt like it. I only subscribed to KU when there was some bargain/sale on it - like the "99 cents for 3 months" deals they used to have. The regular price of $9.99 per month is not a good price when you're mostly just sampling. It would be a good price for very fast readers who finish several books a month. But I don't read fast like that. At the sale price for many KU books, you'd have to complete at least three or four of them per month to make the $9.99 rental price worthwhile.
KU served a niche purpose for me. Now that's it's gone for me (because my Kindle never leaves airplane mode) it's not a big deal. I guess I'll miss it for nostalgic reasons, but as far as functionality, I don't need to sample any more books - my "consider for purchase" list is already long. And in truth, the majority of KU titles I sampled were not to my taste, so not purchase candidates.