Ebook Buying Addicts' Support Thread

[Rev. Bob]

Originally Posted by peachiekene

2 books by Joe Hill (Don't recall the names. One is Horn or Horns, the other is some sort of odd license plate like title.)

Those would be Horns and NOS4A2.

[peachiekene]

Originally Posted by Rev. Bob

Those would be Horns and NOS4A2.

Thanks
I decided against buying either because I found out one of my libraries has NOS4A2 in epub. Since I've never read Hill before that feels like the better route for me to take this time.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by corroonb

I bought 9 Amazon books today (likely to be 11 shortly) and 2 Kobo books. Most had been in my various wishlists for a very long time and all were discounted. One was a opportunistic purchase from the Kindle Daily Deal. I used a 50% and 40% discount codes with the Kobo books.

That sounds like good ebook buying.

I have only 'bought' one book this month - the latest Lightspeed Magazine on subscription. Unless some amazing bargain deal turns up, I hope to end the month with no more than half a dozen books bought in all, and three of them will be subscriptions, and the others at a discount from Kobo.

[corroonb]

I suspect that discovering the eReaderIQ price tracking site will be a problem for me. I'll be grabbing bargains and rejoicing in my elusive "savings".

[Fbone]

Here's my 2014 summary:

Books purchased: 16
Books Read: 11

Money spent $13.64
Budgeted (2014) $1200.00
Balance $1186.36

One of favorite authors has a book on sale for $1.99 [discountable] so that may make book number 17 for this year.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by Fbone

Here's my 2014 summary:

Books purchased: 16
Books Read: 11

Money spent $13.64
Budgeted (2014) $1200.00
Balance $1186.36

One of favorite authors has a book on sale for $1.99 [discountable] so that may make book number 17 for this year.

I'm very impressed.
My 2014 summary, in the same style:

Books purchased: 195
Books Read: 105

Money spent $264.17
Budgeted (2014) $480
Balance $215.83

[PurpleStar]

I haven't bought any ebooks lately, but I did a bad thing and bought a PAPER book. Well, no more of that! I don't care if the paper book is cheaper, I will get the ebook always. I hope I've finally learned my lesson.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by PurpleStar

I haven't bought any ebooks lately, but I did a bad thing and bought a PAPER book. Well, no more of that! I don't care if the paper book is cheaper, I will get the ebook always. I hope I've finally learned my lesson.

Ah — you're finding out how unpleasant it is, reading an actual paper book? It's a bit of a shock the first time after using an ereader for a while.

Although I refuse to buy an ebook if it's more expensive than a new paperback!

[PurpleStar]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Ah — you're finding out how unpleasant it is, reading an actual paper book? It's a bit of a shock the first time after using an ereader for a while.

Although I refuse to buy an ebook if it's more expensive than a new paperback!

Yes, holding it open kind of cramps my hands. I should be able to read it, but....sigh....I miss my Kobo.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by PurpleStar

Yes, holding it open kind of cramps my hands. I should be able to read it, but....sigh....I miss my Kobo.

I know. And perhaps I ought to clarify my remark about not buying the ebook - I just won't buy the book at all, if the ebook is more expensive than a new paper copy.

[PurpleStar]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

I know. And perhaps I ought to clarify my remark about not buying the ebook - I just won't buy the book at all, if the ebook is more expensive than a new paper copy.

Technically, the paper book was more expensive, but I had enough points on my reward card to get $5 off at Chapters. The sleep cover I bought for my new Aura got me a lot of points. So I did a silly thing and bought the paper book.

[DrNefario]

The Hugo voter packet has added either 47 or 39 items to my TBR, depending on whether I count the magazines or not, which I am undecided about. It seems a bit foolish to count a single short story and not count a magazine full of them, but on the other hand a magazine just feels like a different kind of thing to me.

I kind of count that as a semi-purchase, given that I paid for it months ago without knowing what would be in it, and my Worldcon supporting membership was only partly intended as a means of getting stuff to read.

Only about 10 of them are book length, the rest are novellas or shorter, so I hope I should be able to make good inroads in the next few weeks. For my TBR challenge, I only need to read half as many works as I gain, so I don't technically need to read any of the novels/collections.

Not added to my TBR were the Wheel of Time books, which I already own. These are just replacing pbooks for me, which I sorted out for recirculation last night. Oddly, I seem to be missing books 6 and 7 - I guess my brother has them, I lent them out and never got them back, or I borrowed them from the library - and 12 through 14 were already ebooks, but even so I am recovering 17 inches/43cm of shelf space, which makes me very happy. Yes, I measured the height of my stack.

[Waylander]

What is the highest number of ebooks you have bought in a year?

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by Waylander

What is the highest number of ebooks you have bought in a year?

395 in 2008.

[bookaho!ic]

Ouch thats alot of ebooks