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Old 04-09-2026, 08:52 AM   #6151
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My wife doesn't complain about me spending money on eBooks. She never complained about what I spent on hard cover and paperbacks either. She just says at least I don't drink or smoke.
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I don't have anyone who might complain.

But you have reminded me of a former colleague. He had a book-buying habit, and his wife did moan about it. The solution was that I joined several book clubs on his behalf. (This was in the early 1990s, before the abolition of the Net Book Arrangement and before the Internet was widely available.) I'd have boxes of books delivered to my home, and would take them into the office. My colleague would reimburse me, and then smuggle one or two books at a time home in his briefcase.
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Old 04-09-2026, 12:35 PM   #6152
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In the 1980's I traveled for a living and was always buying and reading books. I like to reread books too and would stick them in my suitcases when I finished them. Back then the airlines did not weigh your luggage on domestic flights, or I would have been in trouble.
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It's mid-April and I've forgotten what my end of months stats are. A couple were rereads or freebees (I don't count ebook freebees). I did have a mild breakthrough. While I have bought 13 more ebooks than read so far this year, my audiobook TBR is down 13! So a bit of a wash really but a huge improvement over prior years!
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Congratulations! Keep going.

I'm currently down 7 for the year. Only another 719 to go.

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