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Warning: I'm here to brag.
My best year for fewest purchases/least spent was 2017, when I bought 22 books for $42. I thought I'd never get close to those levels again.
Well! Three-quarters of the way through this year, I've bought only nine books for a total of $16!
I'll add that my cash outlay as been zero, as all but two books were bought with Kobo gift card credit bought during promotions (and so in fact cost less than I've noted); the other two books (pricey) were bought with Google credit and their price wasn't included in my total (use it or lose it credit for which I'd paid nothing). And, as Amazon nerfed their Kindle Rewards program, I've stopped buying from them. Last year, I bought half my books from them.
Even if I go off the rails a bit toward the end of the year, I'm confident that this will be easily my best year. Something seems to have gone off with me; I can finally look at the books I have and they look better, or at least as good, as what's out there. I admit that OverDrive helps, but even there I've gotten a lot more selective.
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