On your Kindle, how many ebooks have you paid for that you have not even started reading yet?

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On your Kindle, how many ebooks have you paid for that you have not even started reading yet?

0 books
6
14%
1-2 books
9
20%
3-5 books
9
20%
6-10 books
7
16%
11-20 books
3
7%
21-30 books
4
9%
31-40 books
1
2%
41-50 books
2
5%
51-60 books
0
No votes
61-100 books
0
No votes
Over 100 books
3
7%
 
Total votes: 44

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Re: On your Kindle, how many ebooks have you paid for that you have not even started reading yet?

Post by Chelsey Coles »

Bluebird03 wrote: 23 Jan 2019, 13:37 I have bought so many books for $1.99 or $0.99 because I love the author or the genre. Even loving to read, I don't know when I'll get to all of them....because I keep purchasing more- at those prices. On the positive side, I should never run out of books to read :) :)
Me too!! The library by my house has used paperbacks for $.50 and hardbacks for $1. Even if the book looks a bit bored, I just buy it.... Never gonna run out of books! 8-)
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My Kindle is FULL of free books. I'm actually on my third Kindle already. Very few of the books on it were more than 99 cents, and I usually don't get a new book until I've finished the one or two that I'm currently reading. I get emails from Freebooksy, BookBub, Early Bird Books, etc. which tell me what free books are available in the genre I've checked off. Mostly these are Indie books. But now that I've started this website I have no scarcity of free new books on my Kindle.
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I do this with both series and business self help books. I go to conferences and something is recommended to me, I go in and immediately purchase or download it with Kindle Unlimited.

On my business reading days I always have a fresh supply of books to enjoy.
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At any given moment in my apps I have more than 5 free ebooks. It then becomes very difficult for me to ever have the need to buy any ebooks for that matter.
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I subscribe to this website, bookbub.com they will send you a list of books based on your preferences. The books will be either free or very discounted. 90% of my books on my kindle come from there and I got them for free! I love that site!
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Even though I don't buy books as much as I used to, I still have 2 books that I haven't touched. Getting so many free books, I rarely buy them nowadays
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I also rarely buy books anymore. For my must read books, I get on my library’s waitlist. In between, I read kindle unlimited books or other library books. But even when I was still buying books, once I switched to ebooks, I never bought a book I wasn’t ready to read.

Back when I read paper books, I would sometimes stock up with 5-6 books from someplace like Sam’s that had good prices. When those were gone, I would do the same again.

I dislike paying for a book that I don’t read and I dislike reading a book just because I paid for it. For sure, ebooks have saved me a ton of money.
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I am an avid reader. Usually when I want something new, I'll look up a genre and I'll go throw a few pages on amazon and I'll add or buy anywhere from 3 to 10 books. Now I have learned that this probably was not the best way of reuping my books because now I have at least 20 books that I have yet to read because I either find something better or I just never got around to it. Also once I start a series I have to finish it before starting a new one.
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I only have the problem of buying books and not reading them when they're paperback. I get Kindle books only when they're free and/or I'm sure I'm going to read them.
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I'd be terrified to look at all of the books that I have already purchased but not yet read.
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I typically stick to just free books on my kindle, and pay for a real copy of a book if I'm going to actually spend money on one.
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I HAVE FOUR BOOKS NOW. HOPING TO READ THEM SOON. FINGERS CROSSED
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I have 32 paid books inmy kindle library and 23 from the Kindle Unlimited
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Post by Marie Chalupová »

I have just few. I mostly only buy at the time I am going to read the book, if I cannot get it in library or on Scribd. I might not benefit from promotions but I probably save more if I only buy what I am about to read.
My physical TBR pile is big though.
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Post by Sheri Iodice »

I wish that I had more time to read, but when I do I have plenty of them loaded and ready! When I see one I am interested in, it is easier to download it then than have to find it later!
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