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Originally Posted by Quoth
Is it an issue if you download PD titles faster than you read them, and free offers on Amazon / Kobo / Smashwords? Technically you didn't spend money.
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Even eclutter is clutter. The more books, the more time you have to spend curating your library so it's accessible. I'd rather see/know that the books I have are books I'd like to read, even though I'm imperfect. Years and years ago I purged my Amazon account of freebies I'd never read. Whew! At least now I can scroll through my books with pleasure, aware of possibilities. My besetting sin is not getting rid of mistakes I paid for. I'd be happier if they were gone, but even though I'm well aware of the sunk cost fallacy, they have to rise to a higher level of stinkiness than freebies. As I said, imperfect.
As for PD, might as well wait on the reading. Yeah, I know, they might be pulled for various reasons including formatting, but the overwhelming majority will still be there.
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Originally Posted by DrNefario
Whether I should count them as TBR when they're only vaguely potentially TBR is another question. They're not really any more TBR than the contents of project gutenberg or my local library.
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The major purges are behind me and so rather than spend even more unproductive time clearing out my TBR at the margins, I treat my TBR as a relative value, i.e., books bought less (paid-for) books read. I don't have an absolute value to ascribe to my TBR. "Many", "lots", "more than I'll read in my lifetime" -- they're all good enough.
I bought only one book in November and I'm finally off the Amazon treadmill, where I kept rolling over bonus credit into more credit, so that should help keep acquisitions in check.