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Originally Posted by DuskyRose
Yeah, I know my days there are numbered as well. I have several lifetimes worth of ebooks, and don't need any more. But I'll miss grabbing freebies every day. I've been trolling for free ebooks since they first came out, so it's a hard hobby to say good-bye to on my favorite site.
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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. So I quit the freebie trolling and haven't looked back. I do still read self-pubs and many of them are good, but the good ones are usually not free.
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Originally Posted by DuskyRose
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.
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Originally Posted by lkmiller
Yeah, I stopped bothering with most freebies a long time ago. Tor is the only imprint that still has freebies that I grab if I don't already own it.
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It took me quite a while to break the habit of checking eReaderIQ's freebies on a daily basis...