I am a sane person. Let me stress this, when I’m not on an adventure or at a concert, I’m an in bed at ten p.m. on a Friday night sort of girl. I drive a Taurus. I work with 5 year olds. I live an unassuming life in a quiet town in the heart of Illinois.
Nothing terribly exciting.
Except now I’ve lost it.
I purchased a nook days ago, and before the soft glow of its artificial light had grown dim, I found myself glued to the computer like a crazy-cat lady is to icanhascheezerburger, desperately seeking out all free ebooks, that the Nook has to offer.
Books and more books. Old friends, Hemingway, Dickens and Plath are just a touch of the finger away and others, writers who I have never heard of, are pulling me away from reality, inviting me to dance in their world.Do any of you have a Nook? If so how do you resist the urge to spend all of your time seeking out new works to read?
How do you budget?
I could see myself spending much too much on this, especially since you can set up an online account with a credit card (so I won’t have to see the total until I get the bill.)
A friend of mine advised me to buy a gift card at the beginning of the year and allot my money that way. I’m thinking about try this and if I do, I’ll let you know how it works.
Here’s a possible solution (feel free to tell me if I’m crazy!) … why not just buy books as you read them? As in, don’t buy a book until you’re finished reading your current book. Then buy your next book and read it. Etc. etc. Although it does take away the fun of a book shopping spree, and it doesn’t really work if you read a gazillion books a year anyway …
such a good idea if I have control to do it 🙂
Thanks for the tip on the free books! I was like that when I first got my Nook, I wanted to get so many books. I tried to face reality and limit myself, just because I knew I could only read so much. Good luck!
Check it out. There are so many free books out there, really great ones too
LOL! I got a kobo mini for last Christmas and had the same problem. I’ve slowed down now though. I don’t have a credit card so it’s mainly free ebooks for now anyway. But I slapped myself a few times and forced myself to focus on writing rather than surfing for more ebooks 🙂 The odd one still slips through, but I don’t go hunting them…
I have a Kindle. I only purchase the “gift cards” for it, to prevent me from going psycho shopaholic with books. Even still, I “purchase” every free book offered. 1000’s of them.
There are worse things to purchase, a book addiction is not as bad as say, a crystal figurine addiction, a ballpoint pen in every color and size addiction, or a three prong plug addiction. At least these e-books do not take up any physical space. 😀
That is a great idea!
I don’t have an e-reader as I can’t afford one, but I’d like one. But I do download songs off itunes and I’m tempted just to download everything I find that I love. What I did was get some counters and put them in a dish next to a jar. I allow myself to put a counter into the jar if I do things worthy of a counter. I write down for each counter what I did then get my sister to look over them to make sure I’m not cheating myself and putting in a counter for something lame like doing the washing. I’m allowed to buy one song with each counter but if I haven’t saved enough of my paycheck I’ll loose all my counters. It’s a little kid’s approach to it but it works for me.
I love this idea.
I bought a Kindle Touch back in the Spring, and now can’t imagine reading without it. It was odd at first, but now it feels weird to physically hold a book while reading LOL