01-15-2017, 09:49 AM | #4081 |
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01-15-2017, 12:00 PM | #4082 |
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As true as that is, I was referring to the "on your wishlist" restriction not being much of an impediment - not about the coupon.
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01-16-2017, 08:31 AM | #4083 |
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Resisting the urge to buy a Granta subscription...
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01-16-2017, 09:42 AM | #4084 |
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I've just bought an ebook. But it doesn't go on my TBR, as I've read it before. And I mainly bought it to show my appreciation for the idea and the author. It was The Tau Manifesto.
But that only takes my total for 2017 to three! Pretty good for over half way thorugh the month! |
01-17-2017, 07:03 AM | #4085 | |
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I'm pleased that I've been able to resist some appealing non-fiction deals at Amazon this month, especially since that means that my year-end buying flurry was a bobble and not a total derailment, to mix my metaphors. And Amazon will be helping me out once K4PC upgrades, as I'll have to really, really want something to buy it after that. |
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01-17-2017, 09:27 AM | #4086 |
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I succumbed to buying the latest in a favourite series. I'm hoping that was just a glitch, however.
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01-17-2017, 09:36 AM | #4087 |
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Well, I finally got the rest of that big Open Road "purchase" processed through calibre. I've still gotta sort out and rename most of 'em, then file 'em appropriately for optimization, but at least they're all converted to EPUB with proper baseline metadata and have been passed through the first demung step. Why, some of the series are even in the right places in the temp folder!
Granted, I still have to go into Goodreads and add the "I own a copy" data. I really wish there were a way to do that en masse... |
01-18-2017, 09:49 AM | #4088 |
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I'm getting a bit ahead of myself, now. Only 3 books read (although a fourth should be added today), and now 10 books bought/borrowed. Of those, at least 3 break my unofficial rules - they are not the next unread book in a series - maybe more than that given that a couple of the others are for my chronological SF challenge and are some way off. I have mostly stuck to my wishlists, at least.
On the other hand, one of them was one that almost got away last year: A few months ago I went to a local second-hand bookshop, and they had a really nice hardback copy of The Other Wind by Ursula Le Guin (in fact, they had the whole set, I think, but the last one is the only one I need). I thought about it, but the book was £3, and the ebook was £2.99, and why would I want to pay extra for the inconvenience of a pbook, even if it is a nice one? The very next day (I think) the ebook went up to £4.99, where it has remained ever since. I was quite annoyed. Anyway, I went back today, and discovered that they still had The Other Wind, although there was no sign of the other Earthsea books, so I went ahead and bought it this time. |
01-18-2017, 10:03 AM | #4089 |
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This time last year, my TBR was already 28 books up on the start of the year.
This year, it's actually 2 books down! [Feeling smug] |
01-18-2017, 11:57 AM | #4090 |
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01-19-2017, 02:16 AM | #4091 |
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Someone has kindly posted a script that allows DRM-free download from Dark Horse Comics.
But now I'll have to add all my Buffy purchases to my 2015 or 2016 book buying totals! (I wasn't counting them because I couldn't download them.) |
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01-20-2017, 03:09 AM | #4093 |
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01-20-2017, 03:11 AM | #4094 | |
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... in which case, I'll probably revise my target. |
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01-20-2017, 05:06 AM | #4095 |
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I deleted three books (well, one omnibus) unread and unopened from my kindle account yesterday. It was a freebie I grabbed in the bad old days, and I decided I was never going to read it and didn't want it cluttering up my spreadsheet. I don't know whether to give myself credit for that in my stats. It does seem somewhat like cheating, but on the other hand they did come off my TBR, and I would have counted them if I'd downloaded them.
It might be a dangerous precedent to set, though, if I use deleting some junk to justify more spending. |
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