Fri, May-01-20, 09:33
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Senior Member
Posts: 14,684
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Plan: EpiPaleo/Primal/LowOx
Stats: 220/130/150
BF:
Progress: 129%
Location: USA
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Originally Posted by bkloots
[$10 for a Kindle book] Not unusual. When I buy books, I have a personal "triage": library, paperback, used, digital check-out (often free), digital purchase. Last of all, hardcover (if it looks like a definite keeper for my home library). In this case, I went for instant gratification and convenience, which are almost always the most expensive.
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Sadly, my library card expired during the lockdown. I use web apps to check out ebooks, provided I can finish them before they get automatically returned. I love that feature!
So, my own checklist now goes: - Scribd subscription
- Kindle Unlimited
- Used tree copy
- digital purchase
For the equivalent of two books a month, I subscribe to Scribd and Kindle Unlimited. These let me take as long as I like to read them, too. KU has a 10 book limit, while Scribd does not.
Out of print books are often not digital, but only a few bucks used. I digitally purchase very rarely now, because I'm trying to save money and work through my previously purchased backlog, which is considerable
From the sound of it,
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How to Eat is the title of a book by Dr. David Katz and colleague Mark Bittman
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is one of those CommonSense/InstinctiveEating/FollowYourHunger kinds of approaches, which might work for people whose main problem is cramming in snack food in front of the TV and eating too much takeout heavy on the transfats and breading.
Those DO NOT work for people who find they crave foods that are bad for them. Whose blood sugar plunges with those hearthealthywholegrains. Who already have metabolic issues from years of bad advice.
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