Funny you post this. I deleted a ton this morning. Plus way too many in my Wish Lists. There are books in both that I asked myself, why in the world did I save these? So, bye, bye.
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How big is your wishlist?
I have around 600 books in my wishlists across Logos and Faithlife ebooks.
This includes 108 books I already own in Kindle or Olive Tree, 47 books I own in print and 122 commentaries that I don't really need given the size of my existing library of commentaries. Plus other books of possible interest.
However, I also categorize my wishlists depending on what I'm prepared to pay. I now have ZERO books that I'm prepared to buy for anything less than 50% off. The only book I'm really keen to buy out of the 600 books is Moo's new ZECNT on Hebrews, but I'm not willing to pay more than $20. My wishlist therefore is really only 1 book maximum, with the other 600 or so there to help me monitor sales. In reality I'm not prepared to pay more than $10 for any of these books in my wishlist.
Therefore, my focus now is exclusively the monthly free book of the month offers, truly significant discounts on sales, and prepubs with enticing discounts.
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96 on my "Saved for later" and "Wishlist" combined.
(I use them both as a wishlist…I didn't realize they were 2 different lists until too late in the game to change.)
I keep telling myself I need to read and/or at least be aware of the existence (ie. tag them) of all the books I have already before buying more, lol…
An aweful lot of books in my wishlist aren't really wanted by me unless incredibly cheap. If I ever read a review of a book that sounds as though it might be of interest I put it in my wishlist. I've now bought every book I really wanted - apart from the Hebrews volume I mentioned. But that's over $40 at present, so too dear at present.
Two wish lists. One Logos wish list with 63 items, and one FLEB wish list with 293 items (and one general eBooks list with 13 items).
I kept them separate, since Logos sends out reminder emails only when a Logos edition on the wish list goes on sale.
On the Logos list, I have 42 individual books or collections, for March Madness, or just sitting there waiting to go on sale, on which I decide individually whether the respective discount is good enough. 19 items as a remnant of classic eBooks I wanted to get from FL Connect trials. And 2 courses for coupon codes included in future libraries.
eBooks is an entirely different story… When they go on sale, very often, it doesn't show as a sale price, but the regular price gets updated. So I have a script checking the price of all these books twice a day, and sending an email to myself when the price drops below an individually defined threshold.
I've got 23 on my Wishlist. About half of them are huge collections that I have no idea how I'm ever going to get, but isn't that what Wishlists are for? Wishing for things.
With that said, I do try to keep it focused on things I really do want and could arguably need. I also try to work on whittling the list down methodically. Yet, every time I get it into single digits, I proceed to go on a spree adding to the Wishlist. SMH.
I only have 5 items and since I had not spent that much money on Accordance I can say I have replicated everything in Logos format, thanks to Logos buying Wordsearch 👍 I only have a couple of books that I’m missing but they’re already in prepub. Maybe Logos can buy Accordance and then we’ll be all set 😁
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113. Most have been there for years. I didn't want them bad enough to buy at full price and they just don't go on meaningful sales. Probably won't get them.
I have 15. I add only those titles that are related to my present research, or that I think could be especially useful more generally. In almost all cases, I wait for the sales before purchasing.
I have around 50 items on my wishlist. Mostly things I added a long time ago and then forgot about. This is the same for my Amazon wishlist.
Pastor, Mt. Leonard Baptist Church, SBC