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Yes, I have a spreadsheet. I also haven’t bought a new book in 10 years…for certain definitions of “book.”<\/p>\n
Ebooks<\/h2>\n
On the other hand, today I bought my 900th ebook.<\/p>\n
For Xmas in December 2009, L bought me my first ereader\u2014a Sony Reader PRS-600 (read about it here<\/a>). I was suspicious but willing to give it a chance. On January 1, 2010 I bought my first ebook: March to the Stars<\/em> by David Weber and John Ringo from Baen for $5 usd (the same book is now $6.99<\/a>). I chose a Baen book (and generally still do) because of their non-drm policy.<\/p>\n So, since 2010, I have accumulated more ebooks in ~10 years than I did in the preceding 45. That says something about me, but I am not sure exactly what \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n I decided on Steven Brust’s The Baron of Magister Valley<\/em> \u2014a very under-marketed book published last year that I didn’t realize even existed until very recently. I have been trying very, very hard not to acquire any new books in order to get my To-Read pile down. I can happily announce that, other than a pile of “backup book” (classics and freebies that I have in case of emergency but don’t really intend to read unless I have to), I was down to 3. Woohoo!<\/p>\n So I went on a buying spree:\u00a0A Desolation Called Peace <\/em>by Arkady Martine, Martha Wells’ Fugitive Telemetry \u2014<\/em>number 6 of awesome The Murderbot Diaries and The Assassins of Thasalon<\/em> (Penric & Desdemona) from Lois McMaster Bujold. Which brought my\u00a0 ebook count to 899.<\/p>\n <\/p>\nNumber 900?<\/h3>\n