Stop me before I buy more books!

[cecyglr]

Oooops! I just bought a $100 worth of Catholic books on amazon.com

 

[mommyof4]

Oooops! I just bought a $100 worth of Catholic books on amazon.com

Oh, which ones?

 

[colliric]

I have bad habits with Ebay myself.

Hey, look on the bright side, at least you don’t own 3 Pinball machines(family sized ones, not Arcade ones) you don’t need and never play!

At least I’ve used it to buy things I have indeed needed, like this iMac computer i’m currently using…

 

[historian31]

I buy paper books and refuse to stare at another screen after work. And I have a ton of paper books.

Peace,
Ed

So do I. Often I joke that my only vices are books and coffee. But unfortunately, due to time constraints I will often start a book and not be able to finish it for weeks, and by that time I have forgotten where I left off. I have the “unread book” problem too. Is there a self-help group?

 

[empther]

Kay Cee’s post 11

You can read lots of books free online: free-online-novels.com/christian.html

Hum!!! That’s very interesting. That’s one way to get yourself published.

However,
if you put your book on the internet free for anybody to read ( and copy! ),
the odds are no printing house will ever print your book. :crying:

 

[bluerose]

My worst dilemma… I’ll be in the middle of reading a book, then suddenly something I read will trigger an urge to set the book down and go write. Or I’ll be in the middle of writing when suddenly something I write will trigger the urge to leave the laptop and go read.

I used to pick up a book and read almost non-stop until I finished it (back when I only had one job instead of three!) Unfortunately, I still book-shop as if I have time to do that. I have a few half-finished books on my nightstand… I may have to start them over because I’m not sure I’ll remember what I’ve already read!

 

[Captain_America]

I buy paper books and refuse to stare at another screen after work. And I have a ton of paper books.

Peace,
Ed

I do this, and nowadays, I’ve got so many boxes of books, I just check them out from the library. It’s good all over.

 

[Captain_America]

Kay Cee’s post 11

Hum!!! That’s very interesting. That’s one way to get yourself published.

However,
if you put your book on the internet free for anybody to read ( and copy! ),
the odds are no printing house will ever print your book. :crying:

I think ebooks have so far been pretty bad, in terms of generating revenue for authors. All it really has done is lower the bar, and make it possible for much, much more “noise” in the literary environment.

Writers didn’t get much, to begin with, and now it’s less. Wanna bes will work for free, of course.

 

[empther]

I think ebooks have so far been pretty bad, in terms of generating revenue for authors. All it really has done is lower the bar, and make it possible for much, much more “noise” in the literary environment.

Writers didn’t get much, to begin with, and now it’s less. Wanna bes will work for free, of course.

The flood of books being written on computers, and even submitted by computer email,
has so divided the literary market that nobody has a bestseller. It’s like television. Fifty years ago there were only three channels and some programming was very good. Now, we have two hundred channels and they all rot.

Also, the literary agents can’t deal with all the submissions they’re getting, up to 1,500 a week ! Obviously, no manuscript can actually be read unless the writer is John Grisham.

And the number of publishers decrease because the old days of publishing a Gone With the Wind once in a while are over when everybody is writing romance novels and murder mysteries.

So, the golden age of writing is gone with the wind. thanks to the computer which makes it possible for some hack writer to write a “novel” in two weeks rather than a year.

 

[bluerose]

Well, I tried to hold out till after Christmas… however, I happened to misplace my copy of “Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon” and saw that amazon.com had an updated edition for sale on Cyber Monday… and since I needed a couple more books to qualify for free shipping… and so the rolling stone gathers more books…

I need a bigger nightstand!

 

[Bob_Crowley]

I think you need to get into the library habit. Much cheeper and you can still hold the book in your hands - and then you don’t have to find a shelf space for a book you will never read again. The only books you should buy are those you use all the time, not just once or twice. Also you can read many good books online at no cost. Learn to appreciate what is available for free. Also, for really cheep books, haunt the used book stores and garage and estate sales, but maybe, in your, case, that might be a bad idea. .

Linus2nd

Good advice. Over the last few years I’ve developed a bad habit of buying books I don’t need. They’re mostly on my alleged personal “interests”, half of which I haven’t got the time to indulge in anyway. I don’t buy much fiction, but I’ve got a ton of other stuff.

I get a lot of it cheaply at op shops (surprising what you can pick up sometimes), but the reality is that I don’t need the stuff. And some of it I don’t get cheaply.

I’m going to copy and paste your advice and stick it on the wall where I can see it. Hopefully it will sink in.

Oddly enough there was a time when I wasn’t such a bookworm, but this has become a bad habit over the last few years.

 

[bluerose]

I fell off the wagon… sort of.

I received a letter from a credit card company regarding a long-dormant account. The letter notified me that I had $138.00 worth of reward credits that I had not claimed. I was about to toss the letter when the words “amazon.com” leaped out at me. Yes, I could cash in my reward points for $138.00 worth of credit on amazon.com.

I now have about $20 in credits on amazon.com… plus 8 print books and 5 Kindle books. And a couple of non-book items like Natural Ice lip balm, ras-al-hanout spice (hard to find around here), and Wilton candy cups for homemade Easter candies.

I still refuse to admit that I have a problem!