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Originally Posted by ficbot
Yeah, but on the one hand I am a very frugal buyer and I hate to just throw away something I've paid for. On the other hand, I have *so* much else on my to read list that I don't want to waste my time on terrible stuff when there is good stuff I can read instead  I keep looking at that best of 2009 thread thinking 'those all sound great!' and I don't want to read junk when I have better choices. But I *paid* for it...
Anyway, lesson learned. None of this 'complete the series' business, I'll buy books as I want to read them and not buy ten at once. Times like this I resent that I can't resell an ebook. If someone would pay me the $10, I would happily email them the files and delete my own, but that's not allowed, is it?  |
I had the same experience with 20 "episodes" of Bowman's "Carthaginian Series" alternate history. And yes, they were cheap, but still - I paid for them.
I don't yet own a portable reader (I may have mentioned that before.) I read on desktop computers, including the ones at work during my lunch break. Between Baen Books Webscriptions and Free Library (and various bundles), and Fictionwise, I have 1200 eBooks on my drive. I do not throw any eBook away, however vile. I would if one contained kiddie porn, but probably not for any other reason. So those 20 Bowman stinkers have subdrectories like "Bowman.Return _to_Athens" and so on, and they are listed in my master index.
I just read and enjoyed the five free episodes of "Denial of Service" by Steve Jordan (no relation, I think) and laughed a lot. They now reside on my directory as "Jordan.Denial_of_Service_Book_1" through Book 5. I can recommend them, but with an R rating. It just made them better.
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