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I have several standards: the
* "Oh, that sounds really interesting, I must get it (from the library or borrowed if possible; but if not, buy it)!"
* "Looks interesting, I'll check out/ download it and give it a try."
If I don't think it looks interesting I won't clutter up my reader library or home bookshelves any further.
Freebies get the 2nd standard applied. So do library books, limited only by my capacity to carry dtbs or the checkout limit on e-books.
Classics that are available in e-book free in what appears to be perpetuity are a sort of third standard: I'll only download those I intend to read relatively soon, as otherwise my fun genre reads would get drowned in a stack of Dickens, Hardy, Kipling, Tolstoy, etc. Promotional freebies I find interesting I'll download even if I don't intend to read them soon because sometimes they stop being free.
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