Ebook Buying Addicts' Support Thread

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by issybird

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.

I started off the year doing quite well. Through March, I didn’t buy many books and I was getting them read. Then the deluge. It’s tempting to blame the coronavirus; in fact, I think I will. The twin errors of too many books bought and at a time I was reading a lot of mindless junk. The latter’s the blame-it-on-Covid part.

But finally, this month, I had pulled myself together and hit the midway mark, patting myself on the back for no books bought and making some headway into the newly acquired TBR.

Yet now, keeping to my motif, Amazon has made me an offer I can’t refuse. One of those, “Here’s $5 to spend on your wishlist book” deals. I’m never going to get this PRH book more cheaply and I will read it in the very near future, so I’d be crazy not to take them up on it. But oh, I miss my late abstemiousness.

I think you're quite right to take them up on the free money offer.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

I think you're quite right to take them up on the free money offer.

Thanks. Yeah. It would have been nuts not to. Well, like the sign in the hospital about how many days since a fall, tomorrow I can start over with one day without a purchase.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by issybird

Thanks. Yeah. It would have been nuts not to. Well, like the sign in the hospital about how many days since a fall, tomorrow I can start over with one day without a purchase.

Couldn't resist...

[issybird]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Couldn't resist...

You don’t think that’s tempting fate?

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Couldn't resist...

I am skeptical that any workplace has persisted for 7 million years and that there have been any velociraptor incidents anywhere in less than 2 billion days.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by j.p.s

I am skeptical that any workplace has persisted for 7 million years and that there have been any velociraptor incidents anywhere in less than 2 billion days.

You'd better check the sign again. It's showing just under 26 billion days or just under 71 million years.

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

You'd better check the sign again. It's showing just under 26 billion days or just under 71 million years.

My mistake. I failed to enter the second of the repeated 5's near the end of the number, so I withdraw the velociraptor objection. But I am even more skeptical that any workplace has endured 71 million years.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by j.p.s

My mistake. I failed to enter the second of the repeated 5's near the end of the number, so I withdraw the velociraptor objection. But I am even more skeptical that any workplace has endured 71 million years.

Have you considered testing for Nichtlachen-Keinwortz Syndrome?

[HLS]

I do buy a lot of books but it is very noticeably less that my old habats. I even deleted around 100 of my freebees I know I will never read

[Rev. Bob]

I just spent Actual Money – as opposed to gift card credit – on a book for the first time in at least a year, and even then my existing credit covered most of the cost.

The damage was 79¢ for Seanan McGuire’s In an Absent Dream, reduced from $9.99 to $2.99… presumably thanks to its status as a Hugo finalist. (It didn’t win.)

[Camellia]

"Don't buy any ebooks yet," I told myself when my Kindle arrived. "You have a 3 month trial of Kindle Unlimited, and a 2 month trial of Scribd, besides. You can resist!"

Well, no, I suppose I can't resist at all. I've bought 12 books one week. Two of them were omnibuses. That's ridiculous! I don't read that fast, and my Kindle Unlimited loans are maxed out, anyway!

Somebody, please, confiscate my purse!

[issybird]

Originally Posted by Camellia

"Don't buy any ebooks yet," I told myself when my Kindle arrived. "You have a 3 month trial of Kindle Unlimited, and a 2 month trial of Scribd, besides. You can resist!"

Well, no, I suppose I can't resist at all. I've bought 12 books one week. Two of them were omnibuses. That's ridiculous! I don't read that fast, and my Kindle Unlimited loans are maxed out, anyway!

Somebody, please, confiscate my purse!

Welcome to the thread!

We’ve all been there. Some of us are still there. :cough:

Here’s a first thought, that I’m sure you’ve had already: there’s really no point at all in buying something that’s not on sale, if you’re not going to read it right away. Put the non-sale books into a wishlist and see what happens. Sometimes what happens is that you don’t want it after all, and that’s good, too!

[BelleZora]

I am out of control and need to stop. Back in April I checked Amazon daily deals for the first time in several years. There were three books I wanted to read. I bought them and read them. No problem. But I couldn't stop checking the deals. Since then I've purchased 50 books and have read 26. I can read the remaining 24...if I stop looking for deals. But browsing is so much fun, especially during this pandemic when staying in is not much fun.

Back in the glory days of Kobo coupons, BooksonBoard, Fictionwise, and, of course, Kindle daily deals I had a great time looking for deals and still have a TBR of 831 books. My tastes have changed and many of these books I will never read. The last several years I've purchased books, often at full price, that I read immediately and so did not add to the TBR.

I don't regret the books I have purchased in this latest binge. I've enjoyed many books that I may never have purchased otherwise. But it is time to stop. Help!

[DrNefario]

I still check the daily deals as part of my morning routine, but these days I very rarely actually buy anything. I mean, if I really wanted it, it should already be on my wishlist. (I also check the prices of all my wishlist books every day.)

[Loosheesh]

Originally Posted by DrNefario

(I also check the prices of all my wishlist books every day.)

ereaderiq.com can help with price drops. You list your books and your desired price and the site notifies you when there's a price drop.