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Originally Posted by Sirtel
I did it too for a couple of years after getting my first Kindle, but soon lost my enthusiasm for freebies. Most of them just weren't particularly good and I got fed up with constantly having to DNF them.
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Yeah, I hear that. I'll give a freebie a chance, but don't have any problems with just keeping the info and deleting the book if they're bad. I have found some gems in there, but I don't hold my breath.
A lot of the freebie fun was in the handling and library maintenance. Otherwise, I'd be picking up a lot of paper books, and I had to let a lot of my physical stash go over the years. After seeing my grandparents age and have to downsize every few years, only to end up in nursing homes with everything they'd ever collected and loved sold or given away, I don't want to invest in the physical books so much anymore. (Not that I don't have hundreds now.)
I'm a hoarder and collector by nature, so the freebies fed my inclinations for a long time.