|  06-29-2011, 11:25 AM | #511 | |
| Chasing Butterflies            Posts: 3,132 Karma: 5074169 Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: American Southwest Device: Uses batteries. | Quote: 
 Can some brave soul monitor the freebie forum and bring us the freebs in this thread? SAVE US FROM OURSELVES!!   | |
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|  06-29-2011, 12:28 PM | #512 | 
| Obsessive Reader            Posts: 74 Karma: 515292 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Shalimar, FL (in the panhandle) Device: Kindle PW, Nokia 1520 | 
				
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			You people are all SICK! I empathize with you, but I won't admit to anything myself. Those  99-cent books they sneak in with the freebies are just too tempting. Aaaarrgh.
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|  07-01-2011, 07:19 AM | #513 | 
| Connoisseur            Posts: 94 Karma: 50416 Join Date: May 2011 Location: Scotland Device: Kindle | 
			
			Don't kick your habit guys.  Ebook buyers are saving civilisation with their addiction :-)
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|  07-01-2011, 08:03 AM | #514 | |
| Grand Sorcerer            Posts: 11,310 Karma: 43993832 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Monroe Wisconsin Device: K3, Kindle Paperwhite, Calibre, and Mobipocket for  Pc (netbook) | Quote: 
  And books don't negatively affect your health either. | |
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|  07-01-2011, 10:00 AM | #515 | 
| Chasing Butterflies            Posts: 3,132 Karma: 5074169 Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: American Southwest Device: Uses batteries. | 
			
			Do I get bonus addiction points for buying the ABBY FineReader OCR program so I can convert my backlist to eBook form before we move, or does it have to be new books for the addiction to count?   At least it was on sale from $400 to $170........ | 
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|  07-01-2011, 10:11 AM | #516 | 
| Wizard            Posts: 2,951 Karma: 3000001 Join Date: Feb 2011 Device: Kindle 3 wifi, Kindle Fire | 
			
			work is slowing down my reading xp
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|  07-01-2011, 01:02 PM | #517 | 
| Lucifer's Bat            Posts: 2,577 Karma: 20638583 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Earth/Berlin Device: Kobo Libra Colour | 
			
			Well Ana... you know the answer yourself, don't you?   I bought my two books this morning. Everytime I woke up tonight, I checked, if they were already available. Sony was even faster than Amazon, which I found amazing.   I am officially a failure in this thread   | 
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|  07-01-2011, 01:10 PM | #518 | 
| Chasing Butterflies            Posts: 3,132 Karma: 5074169 Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: American Southwest Device: Uses batteries. | 
			
			@Poppaea You're not a failure! You're our baseline compared to which we can all be better! VERY important job!   | 
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|  07-01-2011, 02:36 PM | #519 | |
| The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠            Posts: 74,433 Karma: 318076944 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Norfolk, England Device: Kindle Oasis | Quote: 
 My next target it to hold off on any purchases until at least the 16th July. That's only another two weeks, I should be able to make it. My ratio of "books I've bought and read":"books I've bought" for this year now stands at 101:157. And if I count in free ebooks I've read, and books I've otherwise discarded from my TBR pile, I'm at 128:157! If I do well, I might be close to a 1:1 ratio by the end of July, and have a TBR pile of under 400! | |
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|  07-01-2011, 03:28 PM | #520 | |
| Bah!  Humbug!            Posts: 64,193 Karma: 135242149 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made! | Quote: 
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|  07-01-2011, 05:10 PM | #521 | 
| Grand Sorcerer            Posts: 11,310 Karma: 43993832 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Monroe Wisconsin Device: K3, Kindle Paperwhite, Calibre, and Mobipocket for  Pc (netbook) | 
			
			Don't feel bad Poppaea, I fell off the same wagon today myself.  I bought two books at around $9.99 each today (though I can at least claim they are conversions since I had the pbook versions in my library already.  I bought Story Structure Architect & 45 Master Characters.  Still 1 or 2 books with an actual price tag on them per month isn't a bad ratio I think.  I bought my last one just about a month ago though that one was only $2.99 so I spent around $15.00 more today.  Just couldn't resist the allure of the writing books.lol.
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|  07-02-2011, 02:07 AM | #522 | 
| Junior Member  Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Oregon Device: Kindle 3 | 
			
			Read the ones you bought???  wink wink
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|  07-02-2011, 02:38 AM | #523 | |
| Lucifer's Bat            Posts: 2,577 Karma: 20638583 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Earth/Berlin Device: Kobo Libra Colour | Quote: 
 Will read the two new ones and the rest of those I bought last month, I think there are four unread, and then try to stick to freebies for the rest of July. Ana, Pooh, Brat, Crich, thanks for the encouragement folks! I really appreciate it   | |
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|  07-02-2011, 09:55 AM | #524 | 
| Bah!  Humbug!            Posts: 64,193 Karma: 135242149 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made! | 
			
			I fell off the wagon with a mighty thump yesterday [anyone hear it?]   (but was I ever on the wagon ... or just running alongside yelling "Jump!")  anyways ... I just "happened" to be browsing the Kindle store  (I have a list of 'classic' authors that I read in pbook form that I periodically check to see if publishers have added their backlist titles to the ebook catalog) when I found .... [cue screams of joy here] Patricia Wentworth's "Miss Silver" detective books AND Anne Perry's Charolette & Thomas Pitt detective books AND Things went dark for a few minutes .... And I heard violins playing .... And a roaring in my ears .... [and the muted shrieking of my wounded credit card] When my eyes finally focused on my computer screen .... My index finger was aching, still poised over the "Buy Now With 1-Click" button, and my email notification indicated I had ..... errrr ..... "several" new emails from Amazon confirming my ..... errrr ..... purchases .... I ran to my Kindle and activated the Wi-Fi .... and to my inexpressible horror     new books downloaded & appeared on my Home screen!   How could this have happened?   What will my friends in the Addicts club think of me?   How could I be so weak?   Is there any hope left for my shattered psyche?    Have to go read now ...... | 
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|  07-02-2011, 09:58 AM | #525 | 
| Lucifer's Bat            Posts: 2,577 Karma: 20638583 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Earth/Berlin Device: Kobo Libra Colour | 
			
			Pooh, I feel your pain. How about us opening up a ebook-buyers-recovery thread?    | 
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