Ebook Buying Addicts' Support Thread - Page 408

Cactus Chef · 07-23-2025, 02:07 PM

Mmm, nope, disaster for last month. A certain book overseas was on sale for a dollar, and I had to have it. But that meant buying myself a gift card so that I'd have account balance, and then at that point it was "Well as long as I'm traveling to the UK, I might as well grab some others on my list that I can't get in the US shop."

So in addition to the usual $2-3 sale impulse buys, there was an additional $20 worth of books I purchased. So that I could save on that $1 book, of course!

DrNefario · 07-29-2025, 05:43 AM

At the weekend, I was in a comic shop, and I saw a big hardback coffee table book that looked interesting. I decided not to buy it there and then, because it was pretty heavy and I didn't want to carry it around all day. On Sunday I decided to look it up online, and ended up ordering it via Hive (www.hive.co.uk), which was a fair bit cheaper but still allowed me to support the store where I saw it. A nice bonus feature.

Not an ebook - and in fact my second big expensive hardback coffee-table book of the year (the other one did at least come with a PDF; this one has much cheaper kindle and epub versions, but I didn't really trust them to do the artwork justice) - but I almost forgot to account for it in my records. I just realised this morning that I should have added it to my spreadsheets and my Reading Challenge post. Almost like I don't count physical books as books any more. And I can't even remember whether I usually count them when I receive them or when I order them, since it's such a rare thing now.

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07-23-2025, 02:07 PM	#6106
Cactus Chef Fanatic Posts: 588 Karma: 7058832 Join Date: Apr 2019 Location: East Coast, United States Device: Kobo Sage, Kobo Clara HD, Galaxy Tab S5e, Kindle 4th Gen	Mmm, nope, disaster for last month. A certain book overseas was on sale for a dollar, and I had to have it. But that meant buying myself a gift card so that I'd have account balance, and then at that point it was "Well as long as I'm traveling to the UK, I might as well grab some others on my list that I can't get in the US shop." So in addition to the usual $2-3 sale impulse buys, there was an additional $20 worth of books I purchased. So that I could save on that $1 book, of course!

07-29-2025, 05:43 AM	#6107
DrNefario Wizard Posts: 2,207 Karma: 12029046 Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: UK Device: Kindle, Kobo Touch, Nook SimpleTouch	At the weekend, I was in a comic shop, and I saw a big hardback coffee table book that looked interesting. I decided not to buy it there and then, because it was pretty heavy and I didn't want to carry it around all day. On Sunday I decided to look it up online, and ended up ordering it via Hive (www.hive.co.uk), which was a fair bit cheaper but still allowed me to support the store where I saw it. A nice bonus feature. Not an ebook - and in fact my second big expensive hardback coffee-table book of the year (the other one did at least come with a PDF; this one has much cheaper kindle and epub versions, but I didn't really trust them to do the artwork justice) - but I almost forgot to account for it in my records. I just realised this morning that I should have added it to my spreadsheets and my Reading Challenge post. Almost like I don't count physical books as books any more. And I can't even remember whether I usually count them when I receive them or when I order them, since it's such a rare thing now.