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View Poll Results: Do you hoard ebooks for retirement? | |||
Yes. I would have done (or do) so with paper books as well. | 20 | 10.81% | |
Yes, but I would NOT have done so with paper books. | 18 | 9.73% | |
No, not for retirement... but... uh... I hoard (e)books anyway. | 113 | 61.08% | |
No, I don't hoard. Not ebooks, not paper books. | 34 | 18.38% | |
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02-07-2014, 10:18 PM | #91 | |
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02-10-2014, 06:31 PM | #92 | |
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I sold most of my backlog once I had kids and realized I didn't have that much time any more between kids, school and work. Now that the kids are older, and I only have work, I've got a bit more time. I've learned that I tend to *actually* only play a few games a year, just a lot of hours. Somehow I never have much book backlog. I think it's because they go everywhere. |
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02-10-2014, 06:44 PM | #93 | |
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( Anyway, it does provide the perfect excuse to buy another reader ...... ) |
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02-10-2014, 06:51 PM | #94 |
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02-11-2014, 12:14 PM | #95 |
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I said to myself not two days ago that I wasn't gonna download anymore freebies and then yesterday I buy two books on sale.
I keep thinking what if I miss a freebie... I can't seem to help myself |
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02-11-2014, 12:52 PM | #96 |
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I suppose freebies are okay to hoard, since they don't cost anything. Myself, I've slowed down a lot getting them, since I never read them. If I want a free book, I can just borrow from the library.
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02-11-2014, 01:05 PM | #97 |
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I have a 'Last Donut in the Box' pile that I'm saving back for a rainy (or retirement) day - Unread works by favorite authors.
Slaughterhouse Five and The Penultimate Truth are at the top, and I've been resisting them for years, even though I've had various pbook and epub copies in my collection. Because once I read those, there's no more new Vonnegut or Philip K. Dick left for me to read, and that will be a sad day indeed. |
02-11-2014, 01:22 PM | #98 |
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Rereading Time
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02-11-2014, 05:11 PM | #99 | |
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02-11-2014, 05:26 PM | #100 |
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02-12-2014, 03:23 PM | #101 |
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Life is too short to read a poor book. But......
You don't know if it is any good until you read at least some of it. So, if it is free, you might as well grab it rather than read the sample first. Then Alf it, Stick it in Calibre, let it clamber up to whatever cloud you favour. Then whenever you want to see if it is worth reading, it still hasn't cost you any significant amount of time or money. My mobile phone service has just given me free unlimited cloud storage (well, in the fine print it says 9.99 terabytes.....) and I have a few USB hard drives in the fire safe. What's not to like about hoarding? No need to dust the ebooks! |
02-14-2014, 12:43 AM | #102 |
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good points
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02-14-2014, 01:26 AM | #103 | |
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I snag lots of freebies and have hundreds on my tbr list. there are some authors that I have, keep and will continue to buy and read pretty much forever. I gave up keeping current on the wheel of time series well before Jordan died, I'm just stockpiling everything until the series is done and will re-read the series AGAIN and finish it. same thing with the martin books |
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02-14-2014, 02:36 AM | #104 |
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I'm in Montreal and it is hard to get a decent selection of english books at the library. I would be lost without my ebooks.
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02-14-2014, 04:21 AM | #105 |
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I'm not hoarding but buying faster than I can read. So I have a library for myself from which I know that I can't read each and every book during my lifetime if I don't want to skip social life. Even then, I guess that my reading rate will decrease given the strain for the eyes now as compared to my thirties. But if you accept that life is too short anyway it's nice to have a choice at hand when thinking about the next book to read. And I like it if my visitors stand with open mouth between my bookshelves, pondering about kN/m2. Well, they are less impressed by my flash cards
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