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Old 12-24-2021, 06:25 PM   #46
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I guess I have low standards. I think I could count the number of books I DNF one hand, and I can only recall the title of one of them.
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Maybe you actually have high standards when choosing books!
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Old 12-24-2021, 07:05 PM   #47
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HALF? Doesn't that indicate your selection process is really poor?
I usually read a mainstream book review first, but still abandon a bit less than half.

I don’t think it is the selection process, but rather that my patience level is low. With people that is a moral failing.

With books? Not if the reason is that I find the book tedious. If the reason is that the book has a POV I don’t like, maybe that’s wrong of me. But I try to finish at least some books like that, so my mind isn’t a complete echo chamber. The last book I finished was in that I-profoundly-disagree category (and I’m therefore not sharing the title).

Now, I’m mostly a library borrower, so there isn’t a big financial issue. But when I do buy a book, being certain it’s one I would like, I still often find I was wrong, and abandon it.
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Old 12-24-2021, 09:16 PM   #48
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Now, I’m mostly a library borrower, so there isn’t a big financial issue.
In addition to the library, another place I like for free books is ereaderiq. For example, I have this always open in a tab that's pinned and get new books every day from it. Sometimes it refreshes itself, sometimes not so I have a browser plugin that refreshes tabs and set it to refresh this one every hour.


https://www.ereaderiq.com/freebies?c=158576011&ipp=90
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Old 12-24-2021, 09:26 PM   #49
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In addition to the library, another place I like for free books is ereaderiq.[/URL]
A very device-specific and location-specific service it seems - only for Kindle, and only for 3 Amazon sites, if the dropdown menu is reliable.
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A very device-specific and location-specific service it seems - only for Kindle, and only for 3 Amazon sites, if the dropdown menu is reliable.
I have a Kobo so I convert them in calibre. Even the books that I buy I buy from Amazon and convert.
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I have a Kobo so I convert them in calibre. Even the books that I buy I buy from Amazon and convert.
As do I, but but I'm not in any of the 3 locations ereaderiq serves, and I suspect many MR users are in a similar position
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As do I, but but I'm not in any of the 3 locations ereaderiq serves, and I suspect many MR users are in a similar position
Can you search for the books that ereraderiq lists on your amazon? Although I suspect that few will be free elsewhere; I've often seen people post about a book that's on sale or free here in the US but it's not in the UK, or vice versa.
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Old 12-24-2021, 11:54 PM   #53
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Although I suspect that few will be free elsewhere
Ay, there's the rub. If the whole point of the site is to publicize books that are free, the site itself is of little/no use to those for whom the books it publicizes are not free.
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With books? Not if the reason is that I find the book tedious. If the reason is that the book has a POV I don’t like, maybe that’s wrong of me. But I try to finish at least some books like that, so my mind isn’t a complete echo chamber. The last book I finished was in that I-profoundly-disagree category (and I’m therefore not sharing the title).

Now, I’m mostly a library borrower, so there isn’t a big financial issue. But when I do buy a book, being certain it’s one I would like, I still often find I was wrong, and abandon it.
I dunno, I guess it's just a completely different mindset from mine. As I said, I finish books, but even without that compulsion, I rarely think something is so boring that I don't want to finish. Mostly when I end up disliking a book, it's because of a clunky or stupid ending; the journey is fine until it ends up in nowheresville.
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Ay, there's the rub. If the whole point of the site is to publicize books that are free, the site itself is of little/no use to those for whom the books it publicizes are not free.
It sort of seems silly to me to have some 3rd party providing this service; why doesn't Amazon do it? I don't know how ereaderiq categorizes the books but I looked at some that I got for free and in the Product Details it lists what looks like could be used for their genre under Best Sellers Rank. Or maybe they at least provide an API that ereaderiq is using.
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In addition to the library, another place I like for free books is ereaderiq.
I love ereaderiq, but never go for the free books. I can find crap on my own.

But for monitoring price drops on books/authors, ereaderiq is great.

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It sort of seems silly to me to have some 3rd party providing this service; why doesn't Amazon do it?
Is it really in Amazon's interest to tell you to wait as a book is likely to go on sale?

If I recall correctly, ereaderiq was partially funded by Amazon at some point. But now they are on their own.
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Most of the third party price tracking services (that I've looked at) are pretty useless to me in Australia. But I have noticed that in recent moths Kobo have become good of at notifying me when books on my Wishlist come on special - which makes the wishlist much more useful than it used to be.

I wasn't sure this was ever going to happen, because as ZodWallop observes, it doesn't really seem to be in the sellers' best interests. But Kobo are doing it anyway.
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I wasn't sure this was ever going to happen, because as ZodWallop observes, it doesn't really seem to be in the sellers' best interests. But Kobo are doing it anyway.
Then why do Steam and GOG do it? I'm thinking more along the other lines -- people are far more likely to buy on sale. A sale at lesser price is better than no sale.
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Then why do Steam and GOG do it? I'm thinking more along the other lines -- people are far more likely to buy on sale. A sale at lesser price is better than no sale.
There are various reasons that books end up on wishlists. In my case, quite a few are books that I own in paper that I plan to re-read sometime, and I'd rather do that on the ereader BUT I'm not going to spend full price to do it. Plus there are some books that will only get tried if they come out cheap enough. So these would all equate to "a lesser price is better than no sale". BUT also on the list are books that I really want to read and eventually I'm going to buy them whether they show up on special or not (within reason), so these are potentially "better to wait for a good price".

Other people will have their own reasons for placing books on wishlists, and so what ends up best for the seller depends on the averaging of all our individual peculiarities in combination with whatever business requirements exist (buy prices, and policies etc etc), and also taking into account customer satisfaction and just getting the customer to open their wallets.

In short: it's complex and different businesses are going to draw the line in different places.

(At least, that's how I imagine it. I don't have insider knowledge to know how accurate my guesses are.)
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When it comes to abandoning books, I hardly ever did when I was young. There usually weren't that many books around, and library trips were few and far between.

Now, when a book isn't working, I sit back and decide why. If I'm just not in the mood, otherwise I might like it, I just set it aside to try again later. Sometimes, I do come back, years later, and enjoy it.

If I don't like the characters, the style is not for me, or it's not well written, then I'll trade/sell/donate a physical copy, or delete it from Calibre and mark it DNF. (I will leave it in my library at Amazon, Kobo, Other. For now.)

Then I just shrug and move on. There may be hundreds of millions of books out that I'll not like, and a million I'll absolutely like, love, or adore. I can't find the millions of good ones, or have time to read, them if I'm plodding through stuff I'm not enjoying.

They're just not worth it.
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