Ebook Buying Addicts' Support Thread

[HLS]

I wish the hold times with library books wasn’t so long. If was able to get a library book on my kobo without a long wait I wouldn’t have to buy so many books. Most people read have 6 to 8 week hold times. TimeThey are available I have lost interest.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by HLS

I wish the hold times with library books wasn’t so long. If was able to get a library book on my kobo without a long wait I wouldn’t have to buy so many books. Most people read have 6 to 8 week hold times. TimeThey are available I have lost interest.

Well, if you've lost interest, move on and let the next person have it. But if you've lost interest in six weeks, perhaps it wasn't such a good buy at the time, either.

I get it. Some books languish on my wishlist and the reality is that they'll never get cheap enough or I'll never want them enough to buy them. So I purge them. There's still a ton of books I'm dying to read out there. And in my accounts, more to the point.

[ownedbycats]

Honestly, most of the time I forget about a library hold by the time it's available. So it's usually either a pleasant surprise or 'why the hell did I put a hold on this?'

I still have $6 and change in my Kobo account, so every day I've been skimming through the under $5 section and checking my wishlist. Haven't found anything yet. I might just use it against a more expensive wishlist book after I catch up a bit on the backlog.

[ownedbycats]

A friend sent me this:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/pi...-books-cartoon

[HLS]

I hate when amazon will not let you do a return on an ebook you bought on impulse

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

I still have $6 and change in my Kobo account, so every day I've been skimming through the under $5 section and checking my wishlist. Haven't found anything yet. I might just use it against a more expensive wishlist book after I catch up a bit on the backlog.

I managed to find three books. One of them was on my wishlist, one was recommended by a friend, and one came up by chance while skimming through the daily deals.

As for the backlog/pile of shame... I managed to get 45 read in September, so I don't feel too bad about it.

[Tarana]

Originally Posted by HLS

I wish the hold times with library books wasn’t so long. If was able to get a library book on my kobo without a long wait I wouldn’t have to buy so many books. Most people read have 6 to 8 week hold times. TimeThey are available I have lost interest.

I was going to put a hold on a book until I found out it had an estimated 147 weeks wait with 20 copies of the ebook available. It came up on ereaderiq for $1.99 a couple of months later. Bought it.

[ownedbycats]

I've decided not buy any more books till Christmas. When I get my next survey payment I'll send myself a Kobo gift card and set the delivery date for December 25.

[DNSB]

Hmmm... According to Kobo's Reading Life, during November, I managed to flip 41,314 pages while reading 109 books. After today's purchases, my TBR stands at 2 books plus a library book which I haven't downloaded yet.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Hmmm... According to Kobo's Reading Life, during November, I managed to flip 41,314 pages while reading 109 books. After today's purchases, my TBR stands at 2 books plus a library book which I haven't downloaded yet.

Sorry - TWO? (plus a library book?)

Did you mean to write 200 and missed the zeros off?

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Sorry - TWO? (plus a library book?)

Did you mean to write 200 and missed the zeros off?

Nope. I meant TWO. My issue is that I am pretty much incapable of buying a book and not finishing it in the very near future. Pretty much the opposite problem to many posting in this thread where their books read per month is lower than their books purchased or borrowed, Sometimes, instead of purchasing or borrowing new to me books, I will start re-reading a series or author such my current start on re-reading my collection of David Eddings books but even so I tend to pick up at least 1 book per day.

I may be an addict, I just don't have the massive TBR list that many do.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by DNSB

I may be an addict, I just don't have the massive TBR list that many do.

You might buy a lot of books, but that doesn't seem to be silly or a problem, if you're also reading them all (& not spending more than you can afford).

For some of us, buying more than we can read is silly, and we need to remind ourselves only to buy books that we really want to read, not just ones that are on offer.

[Quoth]

Is it an issue if you download PD titles faster than you read them, and free offers on Amazon / Kobo / Smashwords? Technically you didn't spend money.

[Martinoptic]

Unfortunately I’m a sucker for 99p “bargains” on kobo and Amazon. My TBR list is growing.

[DrNefario]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Is it an issue if you download PD titles faster than you read them, and free offers on Amazon / Kobo / Smashwords? Technically you didn't spend money.

It's up to you, really. For a while I counted all of my incoming books vs all of my outgoing books, but I've decided the last couple of years not to be bothered about freebies. It is a bit silly to download them when you're 99% certain you will never read them, but there's no harm done.

I'm not sure I've ever read a First Reads book, but I still occasionally grab them if there's something I'm vaguely interested in (and I'm on Prime, so get a freebie). And I recently picked up 5 free books from an indie fantasy sale which it's fairly unlikely I will ever get to. Whether I should count them as TBR when they're only vaguely potentially TBR is another question. They're not really any more TBR than the contents of project gutenberg or my local library.