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Self Challenge - Kath's 2012 Books - The final stats are in
Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "I don't know I've not read it yet. It's The Interpretation of Murder"I really enjoyed this book Jud,I read it pre-Kindle and it was quite expensive if my memory serves me right.
haven't really been updating this - oopsbut my spreadsheet is telling me that i am currently reading my 99th book of the year...
i think i will spend a while today thinking about what to read for my 100th - i have known it is looming for a bit now and have been totally flummoxed about what to read for it. i have enough on my voucher for it to be a new read rather than one off my tbr and am also willing to go above my usual price limit as it is a "special read"
Foul Justice - Mel ComleyMemory Scents - Gayle Curtis
Lauren's Nightmare - Karl Jones (SS)
The Cleansing - Bill Rogers
The Head Case - Bill Rogers
Moon - James Herbert
Fluke - James Herbert
The Tiger's Cave - Bill Rogers
A Fatal Intervention - Bill Rogers
Bluebell Hollow - Bill Rogers
Timeline - David Wailing (SS)
Day By Day - Shaun Jeffrey (SS)
Callie's Last Dance - John Locke
As You Sow, So Shall You Reap - Tim Ellis (SS)
The Breath of Life - Tim Ellis
On The Rocks - Rosen Trevithick (SS)
The Covenant Within - RAR Clouston
Turn the Tides Gently - Matt Wingett (SS)
Angel - Sebastian Michael
Bold Counsel - Tim Vicary
I have to admit to being on holiday for 2 weeks since the last update! That helped "up the numbers" somewhat.
Go You Kath!What are you going to choose for your 100th?
Thanks Sarah :) For my 100th, I decided to read The Pariah by Graham Masterton - basically cos it was the first "adult" book I ever read when I was bout 15 and I have never read it since. Thought that would be kinda poetic.
Not started it yet - been busy with other stuff. Hope to start tomorrow though...
eeksi havent updated this in time
i am up to 176 books now this year and as i have now moved onto a spreadsheet it isnt as easy as cut n pasting them here...
what i am going to do is work out how much i actually paid for each book and how much the normal price would be (for the library books, sale books and the freebie kindle ones) and see how that compares... i think that might be interesting...
i'll let you know :)i thought of it when i was looking at the price of some of the kindle books that i have been borrowing from the elibrary and most of them have been about a fiver and i have borrowed 17 so far this year! So that plus all the freebies and sale books should have saved me a pretty penny compared with retail price. Of course in the days before Kindle I would have gone "charity shop" so wouldnt have paid full-up retail price anyway on most books, but just as a comparison!
I thought that would be too difficult cause the prices vary from shop to shop so how would I know which price to go for...
i'm just going to go for the Kindle price as showing on day of investigation compared to the Kindle price i actually paid for it. the library books likewise (if available on kindle) although, of course, i wouldnt have paid anything for them! and i am ignoring dtbs as it is purely an ebook exercise.i realise it is not going to be an exact science but if/when i share the results i will list any assumptions and stuff...
i also realise that "saved" is not strictly speaking true for the "discount stores" and "charity shop" reasons already mentioned...
basic numbers for those interested!172 ebooks read this year (including short stories)
total cost to me £87.26
total cost IF i was buying them on AZ today £387.93
"saving" of £300.67
that said, of the £87.26, £72.96 of that is in vouchers that I didn't even pay for - either earned from ValuedOpinions or given to me.
so actual cash spend for reading all them books is £14.30
so either i am a tight git - or very shrewd...
interestingly enough 6 of the paid books have gone down in price since i bought them and I couldnt find current prices for 6 of them and so i left them at 0.00 and 4 of them are currently reduced to 0.00 so i dont know what their full price would be if they had one
i dont think the authors would agree Judd, but yeah - it well surprised me !just to add for any aggrieved authors who may bimble here that before kindle i bought 95% of my books from charity shops, book exchanges, pubs and stolen off me mum and none of yous got a bean from it. at least these days, you get something from me!
I keep a running total of the books I have bought and so far I have spent £147.13 on 784 books from Amazon and have only read £82.96 worth of them
yeah i do likewise - i have a LOT of paid for books still unread that i snaffled up in sales cos they were cheap. if my mum knew, she'd say something like - "it's only a bargain if you use it"total spent since got kindle: £361.98
total left unread: £170.76
which actually blows all my savings out of the water and shows that i mostly read free books before paid for books which in a round about way means that indie authors rock !
i really should extend the numbers to include all books, but i wasnt so hot at keeping track of what i read last year.
i am not mentioning how much I've spent on kindle books..
Very interesting Kath!I've spent nothing as I buy from Phil's account but he says Kindle has saved a fortune as used to purchase several books a week,mostly from supermarkets( when doing wekly shop) also from charity shops and boot sales but I did have a bit of a 'thing' about books being in pristine condition. Phil reckons biggest boon is not having to build book shelves!
yes, my house is tidier now i stopped buying physical books !i'd just like to ram these numbers down the throats of all the people who moan about the prices of ebooks cos even if i take out all the library books i have had (cos i realise not everyone has access to them and you have to read on tablet and not kindle) i have still read a considerable number of quality (imo) books for a very very reasonable outlay.
just shows what can happen when you open your mind up to indie authors!
Agree 100%. Of all the pleasure my Kindle has brought me this past 18 months the discovery of Indie Authors has been the one I treasure most.I never cease to be amazed at how talented they are and despair that so many people are missing out on the experience.
Oh gosh yes Sarah!But I do think that the world is catching on to this - albeit slowly...
I am up to 187 now and starting to think about what to read for magic number 200... never thought I'd read that many books in a year...
Update time again :)192 ebooks read this year (including short stories)
total cost to me £97.77
total cost IF i was buying them on AZ at their usual price £436.50
"saving" of £338.73
Still searching for that special 200th
That's very impressive Kath, especially the amount saved.And even if you spent on average £1 on a charity book, that would be a cost of £187 so far.
What is your favourite genre? Would you want something short and snappy or a big chunky one? Perhaps a classic or re-read your favourite book of the year.
Thanks Joo. Not bad suggestions there. I did a re-read for my 100th so it would be cheating doing that again. I also have to re-read Jon`s book for KUF but that won't count twice. I may just look at my paid for book spreadsheet and random number one i haven't read yet. Kinda leave it to fate...
Oh I'm itching to recommend books I was bowled over by to be your special 200th but I'd hate for you to not love it as much as I did.It'll depend where your head is when you start it and if life interrupts while you're reading it and many other factors.
But that's all part of the joy.
You should pick the one you've spent the most money on
Sadly, the books that I have spent the most money on haven't always been the best...
How about, pick the top 5 most expensive books and then pick the one that interests you most? That way you'll hopefully enjoy it and feel good cause you've read a book you paid more money for
Or just tell us what the top 5 are and if we have read them we can recommend which one (or not if that is the case)
I'm coming up to my target for books read this year and juggling the TBR list so that the "winning" book will be one that I really enjoy.The one I paid the most for was a Terry Pratchett - which of course I enjoyed.
Most of the other books that I have paid for have been recommended by people on here - I know which people enjoy the same sort of books as I do so I know if they recommend something I would most probably also like that book.
I have sometimes looked at the recommendations on here and on Amazon - but since the Amazon one is based on what I have bought I am currently getting a lot of recommendations for books that I most certainly don't want to read (but nieces are only 18 once thankfully ;) )
i have planned (as much as we can plan tbr lists) up to book 1996 x crime (3 gritty, 3 cosy)
1 x biography (if the library gives it up in time)
the expensive books on my paid for spreadsheet are all omnibus books so that won't work and also i would like it to be one of "our" authors if at all possible as my 100th was mainstream!
What books have you got that you haven't read by our authors?
loads of them - loli'll make a short list in a bit
our lights have just come back on so i will have to do some work for a bit catch up from yesterday!
Oh good!Just asked about your lights in the grumpy thread! :)
Post your 5 for choices, then ask people to rank them then choose the one that's top ranked.
i have found 5 books by our authors and i think i have narrowed it down to that special one but i wont post what it is just in case i dont like it or am not in the mood for it and have to move on to one of my reserves! i'll tell you the 5 authors though -
marc, lexie, darren h, steve r & linda gillard
although, all that said, anything can change between now and then so...
Do you want us ranking the authors for you?
i think i have it sussed joo especially as i have kinda picked 5 very different authors which will help with the mood thing. but if you want to - go for it - see if it matches what i kinda have in mind - although i cant confirm or deny lol
I'm sure you'll enjoy whichever book you pick Kath.Go You:@)Terrific saving too.I am often amazed when I go back to a book how much the price has risen since I downloaded it,especially the ones I paid 20pfor.
yes Sarah, and some of the sale books too - their "real" prices can sometimes be very high!little update: i sacked off one of the books on my list as it was too hard work and i wasn't enjoying it but the library came through on my sport biography. the library also has a couple more Alan Hunter - Gently books available which I have waitlisted so one of them may come through in time to replace the sacked off one!
but... then something happened at the weekend and it became clear to me what i need to read for my 200th. sadly for people here it isn't one of our authors, it isn't an indie, it's not fiction and i am reading it as a dtb. paid proper spends for it new too! but it is something i have been toying with reading for a while and, as i said, things conspired with me at the weekend and i know it is the right time now for me to read it...
That's good news that you have picked the 200th book :o)You are allowed to read DTB's still, we will only glare at you for a short time before accepting you back into the fold. At least you paid money for it, that eases the pain a little ;o)
Hope you enjoy it :o)
lol Jud!i actually had an inkling that a book would choose me rather than me it!
oh and for the record, the dtb was MORE EXPENSIVE than the kindle book but it is one that i wanted physical rather than electronic and also new rather than used.
you'll understand better (and be more forgiving of my heinous crime) when i have read it and can tell you what it is!
i am reading a kindle book on cloud reader at the moment...i just have to remember to type something every so often so my boss doesn't wise up to it!
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Books mentioned in this topic
A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke (other topics)The Interpretation of Murder (other topics)
A Fatal Verdict - Tim Vicary
The 24 Hour Jazz Cafe - Jamie Sinclair
Joe Cafe - J D Mader (SS)
Death in a Scarlet Gown - Lexie Conyngham
Savage Run - CJ Box
Winterkill - CJ Box
Ten Years On - Alice Peterson
The Destiny of Ethan King - Martin Cosgrove
The Three Belles Star in We'll Meet Again - Matt Wingett (SS)
The Boscombe Valley Mystery (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes IV) - Andrew Delaplaine (SS)
August Heat (Montalbano 10) - Andrea Camilleri
It's summer now and so i will slow down cos i will be out a few evenings a week as well as all day saturday and some sundays with cricket stuff... but then i have a holiday coming up soon and should get caught up a bit... ooo reminds me i must plan my books and make sure they arent in my archive and pick an emergency paperback !