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#2491 |
Is that a sandwich?
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Device: Nook Glowlight Plus
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Today's Kobo daily deal is one of my favorite authors. The third in a series for only $1.99. I enjoyed the first and the second awaits me on my reader. However, I resisted and consequently feel empowered to withstand the next temptation.
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#2492 |
Wizard
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Karma: 38840460
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Minneapolis
Device: PWSE, Voyage, K3, HDX, KBasic 7 & 8, Nook Glo3, Echos, Nanos
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I finally became a victim of the $4.95 1st of the Series sale at Audible. Two were authors I actually enjoy (Anne McCaffrey, Heather Graham), one was a book recommended by my sister (His Majesty's Dragon) and Titan by John Varley was the Scifi book-of-the-month in December, but my library didn't have it, so I didn't read it then. They also put Old Curiosity Shop on sale for $2.99 at Audible, so now I have all the Dickens I want.
Have my audiobook devices all set up for the next week. I'm supposed to see an eye specialist tomorrow, assuming we can plow through the snow, and the drops they use don't wear off for several DAYS, so ereading is out. |
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#2493 |
o saeclum infacetum
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Karma: 234636059
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: New England
Device: Mini, H2O, Glo HD, Aura One, PW4, PW5
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Baby step, baby step, and yet....
Yesterday, one of the Kindle Daily Deals was an account by Alistair Cooke of the American Home Front in the early days of WWII. I like that kind of thing and I've always enjoyed anything I've read by Cooke. It was only $1.99 and ordinarily would have been a reflex buy. But on reflection, I acknowledged that it wouldn't add anything to my knowledge of the subject and that I already have unread WWII books on my TBR, so I passed. |
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#2494 |
The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠
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Karma: 315558332
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Norfolk, England
Device: Kindle Oasis
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#2495 |
Wizard
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Karma: 25151986
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Seattle, US
Device: Kindle Paperwhite, Kobo Libra 2, Pocketbook Verse Pro Color
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#2496 |
The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Norfolk, England
Device: Kindle Oasis
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#2497 |
o saeclum infacetum
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: New England
Device: Mini, H2O, Glo HD, Aura One, PW4, PW5
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Karma: 38840460
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Minneapolis
Device: PWSE, Voyage, K3, HDX, KBasic 7 & 8, Nook Glo3, Echos, Nanos
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Karma: 80074820
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Sunshine Coast, BC
Device: Oasis (Gen3),Paperwhite (Gen10), Voyage, Paperwhite(orig), iPad Air M3
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#2500 |
Grand Sorcerer
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Device: KPW1, KA1
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Buy a huge 6 or 10 book omnibus...
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#2501 |
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Sunshine Coast, BC
Device: Oasis (Gen3),Paperwhite (Gen10), Voyage, Paperwhite(orig), iPad Air M3
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Well, I used the first of my 50% coupon on a 4 book omnibus already, and I'm NOT GOING TO BUY ANY BOOKS RIGHT NOW.
I'm trying really, really hard to keep to that. It's especially a problem because I'm reading less right now (work overload). So buying new books is not helpful. |
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#2502 |
The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Norfolk, England
Device: Kindle Oasis
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The next in the No. 1 Ladies' Detecive Agency series has just come out in paperback and so the ebook has dropped in price. I'm not buying it because I haven't got around to reading the previous one yet.
But this does mean that I'm not going to buy any book that appeals to me less than that one - quite a high bar! I might make it to the end of February after all. OTOH, my two subscriptions for February (Analog and Asimov's) have just come in. But I had accounted for them already. My 35 issues of Lightspeed magazine from their kickstarter haven't come in yet. If they don't arrive until March I'm going to have to re-arrange my accounting again. |
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#2503 |
Wizard
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Device: Android, Nook Simple Touch, Nook Color, ..., Glo
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Unfortunately this means i might be buying it, for my mother. This is one of the few series she's addicted to. At least I have a few coupon codes to take the sting off. And hopefully the will power not to go crazy with the first click in a while {fingers crossed}
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#2504 |
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Karma: 9918418
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Here on the perimeter, there are no stars
Device: Kobo H2O, iPad mini 3, Kindle Touch
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I just found out that some SF books I enjoyed and had been thinking about lately are available as fairly inexpensive ebooks - $4.39 each at Kobo, or $3.03 each at Diesel. I also found out that there are more of them than I was aware of, seven in all, and I'm not sure just where I left off.
So far, I've been using the prospect of promo codes to avoid purchasing them at Diesel, and the Diesel pricing to stave off the Kobo purchase. In short, until I can get 'em at Kobo for less than Diesel's prices, I'm not going to bother. |
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#2505 |
Plausible Deniability
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: USA
Device: Kindle Voyage, Kindle Paperwhite, iPad Mini 4
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I have just started using a new technique that has so far helped me to not buy more ebooks. Whenever I get the urge to click that buy button, I make myself open up calibre instead and work on curating my giant library. There are still a lot of books in calibre that require tagging, weeding or other cataloging. I also have a "Read" column and a "Free" column in my main library view. Seeing how many books I've paid for and not read yet is a sobering reminder that maybe I might not need whatever book I'm thinking about buying right then.
I'm crossing my fingers that this will continue to work longer term. So far, so good! |
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