Friday, March 4, 2011

What's Your Book Breakdown?



The other day I was thinking about where I get my books. I receive books from many sources. Galleys from publishers, e-books, books I've purchased, and from the library. I looked over my Goodreads history for the last few months and this is what I've come up with:

Library: Twelve books

ARCs: Thirty books

E-books (not ARCs): Five books

Purchased: Fifteen books

Finished copy received from publisher: Five books

So, obviously I've been reading a lot of ARCs lately! Since I'm not reviewing as many books on the blog as I once was, I'm making an effort to accept/request less ARCs. I need to work at my physical TBR pile so I have more room to buy more books! I don't feel guilty about reading so many books from the library as I'm helping to support both my local branch & the Philadelphia Free Library where I get my e-books, but I really need to even out the books purchased vs. ARCs.

As an aspiring author, I can't help but think I'd be glad if people were reading my book, but I'd be happy if they paid for it, so I need to make an effort to buy more books, especially from debut authors. I tend not to buy a lot of e-books for my Nook unless they're free or discounted, but that might change.

What's your book breakdown?


4 comments:

  1. Let's see...
    Library: 14
    Bought/Own: 20
    ARCs: 1
    E-books: 2
    Books Received from Author/Publisher: 6

    Not bad for a first year.

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  2. For this year, the books I read or are currently in my tbr pile ...
    Bought / Owned : 13
    Won : 4
    For review : 2
    Borrowed : 2

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  3. I don't have exact numbers, so I hope percentages work. My breakdown would be
    Books already owned: 40%
    Books bought: 40%
    Books from the library: 10%
    Books won from giveaways: 10%

    - Jackie

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