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When you get up into reading 1,000 books per year, the cost starts adding up. All amounts are in Canadian dollars. My Sage and sleepcover were purchased with a 25% off discount so $299.99 + $59.99 dropped to ~$279 (~$202 US at current exchange rates). I use Kobo Plus quite a bit so ~$120 per year plus quite a few Kobo, Amazon, etc. books that I purchase on $0.99 to $2.99 sales. I also purchase quite a few books directly from the authors since that gets the most money into their hands and, hopefully, will encourage them to keep writing. Then we have my must purchase authors/books which have run me up to ~$25 each. A quick total says that in 2024, I spent about $690 on books. Considering my Sage was purchased in Oct. 2021, that cost has now been spread over several years.
Currently, my calibre library says that I have ~16,500 books since I started collecting and reading ebooks. Not all are marked read since that capability was not present in the first versions of calibre I ran and I have never taken the time to manually set those books from 2013 and earlier to be marked as finished.
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