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Old 02-09-2017, 02:43 AM   #4156
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Technically, my TBR stack jumped up by several books yesterday, but it's not my fault! (I was clearing out my email and noticed several unredeemed StoryBundle newsletter bonus books lurking there, so I went ahead and downloaded them.)
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I've done my tidy-up for the year. It's why my TBR jumped to over 1100 from around 850...

But I have also managed to find 19 books this year that I'd read but not marked as read. But I'm adjusting my year start total, rather than counting them as being taken off my TBR for purposes of my challenge this year.

I'm still doing a lot better this year than last year, so far!
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The further back I go, the more the "what was I thinking?" element kicks in.
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Old 02-10-2017, 01:47 AM   #4159
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I'm not quite sure I understand the freebies being in the same list as the purchased books. I look at freebies I've collected as something I may read if I ever get around to it but otherwise just sitting there taking up a few meg of space.

On the other hand purchases or free stories of authors I currently read and follow are in a TBR list.

It doesn't make sense to not pick up a good deal by an author I know I read and enjoy because I have a thousand plus freebies that I may never get into. (yeah, freebies have a new standard as of last year... I no longer read at least a third of a freebie before deciding it isn't my cuppa tea).
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Old 02-10-2017, 03:10 AM   #4160
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I'm not quite sure I understand the freebies being in the same list as the purchased books. I look at freebies I've collected as something I may read if I ever get around to it but otherwise just sitting there taking up a few meg of space.
I clear random freebies out of my calibre database last year. So any freebies that I have in calibre or that I add to calibre are freebies that are by authors I know, or are sufficiently interesting/recommended to be on my list to be read.

I haven't yet gone through Amazon and deleted all those now unwanted freebies, but I will at some point.

Life's too short for random freebies, no matter how tempting it is to grab them when first starting with ebooks.
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Old 02-10-2017, 08:17 AM   #4161
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I'm not quite sure I understand the freebies being in the same list as the purchased books. I look at freebies I've collected as something I may read if I ever get around to it but otherwise just sitting there taking up a few meg of space.
It's totally up to you how you choose to count your TBR. In my case, it's not really a TBR, just a list of all the books I have that I haven't read. There are undoubtedly some that I will never read and won't miss. But how can I be sure which ones they are? Every time I've tried to filter my list I've arrived at difficult edge cases I can't decide on, and it ends up being a futile exercise.

And if I read a freebie, I want credit for it. Do I add it to my TBR just to remove it, like I would with a library book? I'd still need to track the books I own but am not counting to stop myself downloading them again.

So, basically I count everything I download, even if something is just a freebie I'm laying into deep storage, or if it's extra garbage I got in a bundle, or whatever.

I do choose not to count magazines and graphic novels, but that's just me.
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Old 02-10-2017, 09:08 AM   #4162
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I was persuaded that the time spent on 'buying', downloading and 'curating' freebies was more than they were worth. So now I only get a freebie if I might have got it at £0.99.
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Old 02-10-2017, 04:32 PM   #4163
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Kobo sent me a 50% off coupon. I couldn't resist getting the latest in the Grantville series.
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Old 02-10-2017, 06:08 PM   #4164
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Kobo sent me a 50% off coupon. I couldn't resist getting the latest in the Grantville series.
I spent mine on the latest from Wen Spencer. Any time Kobo wants to send me a "we miss you" coupon of 50% or more, I'm sure I can find a Baen book I want to read.
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Old 02-11-2017, 03:17 AM   #4165
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Kobo sent me a 50% off coupon. I couldn't resist getting the latest in the Grantville series.
It's a shame, really. I've fallen so far behind in that series that I don't think I could catch up now if I tried. The lack of clear indicators that this book comes after that one is a significant part of that; the only way to keep up with the series seems to be to make it one's top reading priority and maintain a close watch on publication order. I didn't do so, and thus I find myself completely lost.
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I spent mine on the latest from Wen Spencer. Any time Kobo wants to send me a "we miss you" coupon of 50% or more, I'm sure I can find a Baen book I want to read.
Ah - I'd already bought the Wen Spencer at Amazon at almost a 50% discount!

But yes, I still have a few more Baen books waiting for another coupon from Kobo.

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It's a shame, really. I've fallen so far behind in that series that I don't think I could catch up now if I tried. The lack of clear indicators that this book comes after that one is a significant part of that; the only way to keep up with the series seems to be to make it one's top reading priority and maintain a close watch on publication order. I didn't do so, and thus I find myself completely lost.
Eric Flint's Reading Order

If you only add in the paper Grantville Gazettes, that's only 33 or so books.
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Old 02-11-2017, 06:47 AM   #4167
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Which, I note, is over a year old. Better than the last time I checked 1632.org, but still not exactly current.
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Which, I note, is over a year old. Better than the last time I checked 1632.org, but still not exactly current.
It's up to date to the one I just bought, which only came out this month. As lead author, Eric knows what's in the pipeline.
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It's up to date to the one I just bought, which only came out this month. As lead author, Eric knows what's in the pipeline.
It's missing _1635 The Wars for the Rhine_ (published in Dec) but the other books currently published by Baen are there.

And it's definitely been a help to my husband who only started reading the novels last fall after years of hearing me talking about them. I have all the books plus all the Grantville Gazettes so he appreciated the guide.
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Alrighty, it's six weeks into the new year and I haven't purchased an ebook.*

In fact, I think I'm in danger of turning this into a fetish. That's not a bad thing for now, but I don't want not to buy books that would add to my enjoyment. For example, I've decided for one of my challenges to buy recent translations even if older translations are in the public domain, and that's something I think I should do. I've already not bought a book I probably ought to have bought.

But old habits die hard and I want this one to become more engrained. I remember how after almost getting through December scot-free, "just one" book magically morphed into three.

*(Actually, I have the real issybird bound and gagged and locked in a closet.)
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