03-04-2014, 11:30 AM | #2581 |
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Sometimes it takes a lot of time, sometimes it doesn't. Either way, I've been taking a break from it lately to just enjoy the books I bought. I have more than enough to tide me over for a long long time.
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03-04-2014, 12:15 PM | #2582 |
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03-04-2014, 12:30 PM | #2583 | |
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03-05-2014, 12:17 PM | #2584 |
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I'm still happy about eliminating all couponable books on my wishlist. I will spend a little time this weekend figuring out what books to read to determine whether I want to get more in the series during the next 90% off sale. I need to stay out of other threads though. I was tempted and caved to buying The Warden by Anthony Trolloppe. The kindle book was free, but the audiobook was $2.99.
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03-06-2014, 11:49 PM | #2585 |
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I went a bit overboard tonight and spent about $50. I needed the new Brandon Sanderson, I needed the new Robert Conroy, there's a new Dune novel next week, etc. It adds up very, very quickly.
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03-07-2014, 04:44 AM | #2586 | |
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Even if it's a book you *must* read now, you should not buy more than one of them at a time if they're not on special offer. You can't read two of threee 'must read' books at a time (well, I can't), so why not just buy one, and see if an offer turns up on the others before you need to buy them? By careful management of a TBR you can reduce your expenditure considerably. Which leaves more money for more books.... which is where the plan sort-of fails, of course. Says the man with an 800+ TBR. |
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03-07-2014, 05:01 AM | #2587 | |
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But then, I also have a TBR stack sitting at about 1250. |
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03-07-2014, 06:04 AM | #2588 | |
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I have about 14 books waiting to be read and I thought that was a lot. But it sounds nothing compared to yours. 1250 books?! Whoa. Stop buying and start reading! |
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03-07-2014, 06:38 AM | #2589 | |
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For me, 14 books is about four weeks worth of reading. That's too short a time to be able to wait for good books to be on offer. Granted, 800 is a few too many for optimal enjoyment too. I'm hoping to eventually get down to about 50 books on my TBR pile. But that seems a very long way off. |
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03-07-2014, 06:45 AM | #2590 | |
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The books on my TBR pile are very long. Almost all of them are over 800 pages long. That's why I didn't buy anything with the 90% Kobo discount code. |
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03-07-2014, 07:01 AM | #2591 |
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03-07-2014, 07:26 AM | #2592 |
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Have enough books to read one a week for the next year but still I download more. Help!
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03-07-2014, 07:31 AM | #2593 | |
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Try to follow the rules we worked out, that are listed in the first post. Post here if you're tempted by an offer - sometimes just the delay of mentioning it here will help. Pick a book that you'd really like to buy, but you're waiting for a good offer. Then for any other book, consider whether you really want that other book more than you want the book you're waiting to buy. Fifty books seems like a good TBR to have. Enough so that you are sure to have something good to read next, and so you can afford to wait for the special offers to come along for your next purchase. In this way, your cost per book can go way down. (My cost per book for 2014 is under $1.50!) |
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03-07-2014, 08:24 AM | #2594 |
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I wish I only had one a week for the next year.
I do sometimes wonder how many it would be if I "stacked" serieses (ie. only counted the next one) and disregarded all the trash, but my data is not currently in a form where I can manipulate it that easily. Probably still well into three figures, though. The one book I bought in the 90% kobo incident (probably not fair to call it a sale, I'm not convinced it was voluntary) was Jo Walton's What Makes this Book So Great?, which I anticipate will end up being very bad for my TBR. Incidentally, I was expecting it to be a Tor book, but the UK version looks to be from C&R, and DRMed (temporarily). |
03-07-2014, 08:48 AM | #2595 |
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