Sometimes we buy a book and don’t read it.

The not reading may be because we are reading another book.

Maybe we wanted to support the author but it’s not our thing.

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Perhaps we are not in the headspace to read it yet.

We may want to save reading it for a special occasion - a holiday, a day off, a specific time of year.

It may be because we are not the person we want to be yet and we see flickers of it appearing and want to encourage it and your book is part of that and we will read it when we get there or are on the way to being there enough to appreciate it.

So why buy it now?

Because it’s on offer.

So we don’t forget.

So it’s there waiting for when we are ready to read it.

If we’ve bought it in some part of our brain we wanted to and maybe even intended to read it and we still might.

Don’t give up hope.

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