I've started buying more physical books especially on deals for this reason, but I read far more ebooks 🥲i make extremely poor financial decisions so i have no top out
if i see a book and i like the look of it i’m probably buying it tbh. i DO refuse to pay over about £6 for something on kindle though because i seriously begrudge paying £9+ when i don’t get a physical copy of the thing!
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If it's a book I'm unsure on and can wait for prices/deals, then £5-7. Yesteryear has mixed reviews so not wanting to spend a lot makes sense.
I must say, discovering The Works and Amazon 99p deals has ruined me because even though I got books cheap on Google Play, it was rare because I didn't love reading on my phone. What I'm willing to spend on a book has gone down for sure.
But I'm intrigued by your use of blind buy, do you only buy books you've already read?
Echoing this.i make extremely poor financial decisions so i have no top out
if i see a book and i like the look of it i’m probably buying it tbh. i DO refuse to pay over about £6 for something on kindle though because i seriously begrudge paying £9+ when i don’t get a physical copy of the thing!
Oh although… I refuse to pay £18.99 for the tiny hardback of Elizabeth Strout’s latest so maybe I do have a limit!
same!!! if it’s 200 pages or under i’m not paying full hardback price! you’re paying like 50p a page for some of them.
(i’ve done that ONCE and that was because the cutest man in swansea waterstones recommended it to me at the till and i’m just a girl)
Like I say, The Works and Amazon have ruined me. I loved Uketsu's Strange Pictures but for some reason couldn't bring myself to buy Strange Houses for £12.99.
I did luck out and eventually bought Strange Houses and Strange Buildings on Amazon for 99p each but I think I would have got Strange Houses full price if another month went by. I picked it up so many times in Waterstones then decided against it.
Gus is not even my favorite EmHen leading man and I am still so madNOT MY GUS!!!
look how they massacred my boy
Oh no, I mean like a new author/genre to me. If it’s an author I like, or comes highly rated by someone I know, of similar taste to me, then my threshold is a bit higher coz it seems like a more sound ‘investment’
Nothing about the plot strikes me as amazing and I’ve never heard of the author. I’d buy it solely coz of hype/good reviews but not for a tenner!
I think part of my problem is that I’d buy a lot 99p deals based on the cover or an author blurb and then they are either terrible or I never fancy them. I’m trying to get through a lot of those now and frankly i have to temper it occasionally with a good book to stop me getting resentful (hence trying to find something good to read now!). Currently reading something called ‘what could go wrong?’ By Jessica fowler which was a first reads book from last month touted as being hilariously funny. I think I’m about 40% in and not a single funny thing has happened.
I am this close to rereading good spirits for the fourth time just for something that makes me feel all gooey inside.
Im listening to The Lost Passenger on Libby atm only a few chapters in but enjoying it so far, the narration is very good. It takes me a long time to get through audiobooks because i have 2 children and a husband who never stop talking at me so i only get a chance when im in the car or in bed, where i will promptly fall asleep after 3 minutes and lose my place.
Whilst we’re confessing - I did buy Murakami’s super frog saves Tokyo for £14.99 and it’s hardly dense with text..
Have just finished the Boleyn Traitor by Phillips Gregory which I enjoyed much more than I was expecting but the review on Amazon complaining it has the same plot as a previous book about the Boleyn has tickled me so much 
. People moan if you don’t stick to history then they moan if you do
. People moan if you don’t stick to history then they moan if you do 
I will pay 9.99 if it's the latest in a series by an author whose books are usually 4 or 5 stars and I can't wait 6+ months for the paperback, but i collect them so i get the hardback rather than pay 9.99 for kindle. If it's an unknown (to me) standalone then probably 2.99-6.99, depending on the plot blurb/recommendations.
But I am trying to get through my stack before impulse buying more (though books in a current series by my favourite authors I will always buy regardless
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My workmate is reading that for her book club and said she'll lend it to me once she's read it!
New quiz on radio 4 called bookmarks. Some of the contestants are a bit too "pick me" but I suppose they have to be to want to be on the radio. The Write Stuff is the superior book quiz but since we can't have new episodes of that this one will do.
I have just read The True Happiness City. It is a very minimalily fleshed out memoir. Very readabke and at the end she explained. Sort of made me question what happy is she and what is normal.
Somebody here was just talking about Crawdads and all I could think about was @LaBlonde's copy languishing in darkness and likely to never again see the light of day.
On that note what is everybody's worst book? Excluding any English Lit books we were forced to endure. Unless you reread them again.
Thev Time Travellers Wife.
Now I am no prude, but the sex. Then after the sex sex, then the sex after the sex after the sex. Had no idea who the characters actually were and was so bored by the time the wedding happened I was just about asleep.
Somebody here was just talking about Crawdads and all I could think about was @LaBlonde's copy languishing in darkness and likely to never again see the light of day.
On that note what is everybody's worst book? Excluding any English Lit books we were forced to endure. Unless you reread them again.
Thev Time Travellers Wife.
Now I am no prude, but the sex. Then after the sex sex, then the sex after the sex after the sex. Had no idea who the characters actually were and was so bored by the time the wedding happened I was just about asleep.
I always thought the Time Travellers Wife felt a bit like he was grooming her. So creepy.
every time someone mentions the time travellers wife i just think of the fact that the lead character goes back in time to give his teenage self a bj and i wonder why absolutely no editor told her that was bad plot idea
I read it so long ago, don't even remember this bitevery time someone mentions the time travellers wife i just think of the fact that the lead character goes back in time to give his teenage self a bj and i wonder why absolutely no editor told her that was bad plot idea
mustve been like 20 years ago at this point and i liked the book at the time but not sure if i would nowI was about to post basically the same thing, I thought I had a good memory.. alas not.I read it so long ago, don't even remember this bit
I’ve dnf’d some truely dire KU romances over the years. Then immediately emptied their names from my memory. Probably one of those is my worst book.