How Much I Spent on Books in 2017

Here’s the fourth edition in my series of how much money I spend on books each year.  You can read my posts from 2016, 2015 and 2014.

Books I Bought in 2017

Hardcover

1. $12.14 – Truly, Madly, Guilty
2. $20.29 – Star Wars: Rogue One Novelization
3. $18.22 – Always Hungry
4. $29.99 – Beauty and the Beast MinaLima Popup book
5. $10.11 – Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up
6. $10.22 – Star Wars: Rebel Rising
7. $20.00 – Moby Dick
8. $23.19 – Star Wars: Thrawn
9. $14.39 – Leia, Princess of Alderaan
10. $20.29 – Star Wars: Phasma
11. $43 – Louvre: All the Paintings
12. $7.99 – The Weapon of a Jedi
13. $10.39 – Smuggler’s Run
14. $10.39 – Moving Target
15. $10.31 – Legends of Luke Skywalker

Total Hardcover: $260.92 (was $272.35 last year)

Average per Hardcover: $17.39 (was $16.02 last year)

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Subsciption Boxes

(I put the list price of the book since it came with other items and I don’t know how much the book actually cost.  All editions are hardcover.)

Owlcrate

• $18.99 – Caraval
• $17.99 – Daughter of the Pirate King
• $17.99 – Upside of Unrequited
• $21.99 – Eliza and her Monsters
• $17.99 – The Sandcastle Empire
• $12.99 – Rising
• $18.99 – Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue
• $17.99 – Wild Beauty
• $17.99 – The Glass Spare
• $17.99 – Foolish Hearts

Uppercase

• $10 – By Your Side

Litjoy

• $17.99 – Shadow Run
• $18.99 – Strange the Dreamer
• $18.99 – The Last Magician
• $18.99 – Wonder Woman: Warbringer
• $17.99 – The Last Namsara

Total Books from Subscription Boxes (book only price): $283.85 (was $277.91 last year)

Total Books: 16

Average per book: $17.74 (was $18.52 last year)

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Paperback

1. $10.16 – The Husband’s Secret
2. $16 – Boys in the Boat
3. $9.79 – The Magnificent Glass Globe
4. $7.19 – James and the Giant Peach
5. $5.03 – Because of Winn-Dixie
6. $5.75 – Trumpet of the Swan
7. $5.75 – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
8. $5.38 – Revenant
9. $6.79 – Janitors
10. $20.00 – Alexander Hamilton
11. $13.60 – Glass Castle
12. $12.80 – A Man Called Ove

Total Paperback: $118.24 (was $29.70 last year)

Average per book: $9.85 (was $5.94 last year)

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eBook

1. $2 – The Girl From Everywhere
2. $2 – Emotional Agility
3. $11.99 – Courts of Love

Total eBook: $15.99 (was $92.85 last year)

Average per book: $5.33 (was $9.29 last year)

Audible Membership: $143.64 (9 months)

Total Spent on Books Overall:

$822.64

Number of books: 46

Average per book overall: $17.88

Last year I spent $828.81 on books.  So it’s about the same this year.  This is the first year that I’ve purchased so few ebooks.  I usually buy about 10-20 ebooks a year.  I’ve found that I don’t enjoy reading ebooks anymore (except at bedtime which is when I read my digital scriptures). I also don’t like reading on my kindle paperwhite anymore.  I prefer my iPad.  The black background with white text feels a lot more comfortable to read at night.  The more I read real books, the more I notice I like to stop and flip through the pages to appreciate how far I’ve read.  The percentage marker in my ebook just isn’t the same.  Because of that, it feels like ebooks take a lot longer to read.

Out of curiosity, I counted how many gifts and books for review I got (which I didn’t include in this post).  I got 18 books as presents and 3 books for review.  If I had bought those books the number would be even higher. Yikes.

Maybe one year I’ll have a New Year’s Resolution to spend less on books.  But that is not this year!!!!!