Just as an addendum to my "yes, I've got it pre-ordered" vote...
I'm not sure how quickly I'll be able to read it, though, b/c of the insanity that is school. But it will be here for me whenever I *can* get some time to read it, regardless of how much I get to do at one time ;-)
That sounds perfectly reasonable to me. I was thinking that I might order a copy myself, but now I'm inclined to wait until a can get it from the library. You never know, though. I might just change my mind!
The interesting thing about this book is that once I do get a copy of it, I don't expect that I will open it and not want to put it down until I am finished--unlike HP. I am also fully aware that I may be completely wrong here, and want to devour it from cover to cover, too. :-)
I doubt anything will suck me in the way HP did, but who knows? We've never had the chance to read anything else she's written, really, so maybe it will do that after all. I'll see how I like it, and then maybe I'll buy an ebook, too, if I really do. That way, I can have it with me, like the HP books ;-)
Well, I chose 'something else', though it's not 'something else entirely'. :-) It's actually pretty close to reading from the library, but what I plan to do is park myself in the Barnes and Nobles cafe with some cake and tea, and read the book. If I can find it, that is. I expect it will take me several trips to the bookstore to finish it, since it apparently runs to cinder block size. It is also entirely possible that some of those trips will be frustrated by the bookstore temporarily running out of volumes. At which point I will have to decide whether I want to buy it, after all. It will greatly depend on how much I liked what I've read up to that point, and how impatient I am to continue. (Then again, if I don't like it, I will probably stop reading after the first couple of chapters, so it will be a moot point).
Oh! You are devious (but then I knew that) and perhaps a wee bit smart. Read a bit and see if it interests you before you commit. That makes a whole lotta sense.
On the other hand, going back to the bookstore multiple times to read it is a wee bit insane unless you go there everyday anyway on your lunch break or something convenient like that.
Nope, not on the lunch break, but as an evening after-dinner outing. We go there all the time, even when I have nothing in particular to read. But when I do, I end up going several evenings in a row to finish whatever book I'm reading.
It's not very nice to read a book and not pay for it (though borrowing from the library is exactly the same!), but I justify it to myself thusly: First, we spend pretty lavishly in the cafe, so the store makes money off of us. Secondly, most of the books I read are just mindless pastime, and I don't miss them if they're gone before I've finished them, and they're not worth anything to me. And thirdly, if I find a rare book that I actually enjoy, I do buy it, even after I've read it. (Which is what happened with the first 3 volumes of HP, btw). That's my particular brand of market economics. :-)
As for JK's book, I'm rather annoyed at the price tag. So I have to really like it to buy it.
Here's my complicated answer: It starts with "I'll read it sometime when I feel like it." I tend to read things when the genre and plot fit my mood. (Or perhaps when the hype is too much to ignore.) So at that time, I'll download the sample from B&N on my Nook. If I like it, I'll check the library's e-book availability. If the queue is terrible (which for a JKR book is likely) and I'm too eager to wait, I'll buy it using Google books so my local indie bookseller makes the profit. However, occasionally life's To Do list just gets overwhelming so in order to skip the step of downloading to Mac and then uploading to Nook, I just download it straight from B&N to Nook anyway.
Okay that sounds complicated...but at the same time perfectly and utterly reasonable. :-)
Ultimately though you will read the book--sometime--as seems to be the case with most replying to this poll.
Now I'm really intrigued to hear the reactions and reviews once people have had a chance to read it. My curiosity has shifted from whether people will read it (which I now know that they mostly will) to whether people will like it. Ergh...my insatiable curiosity!
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I'm not sure how quickly I'll be able to read it, though, b/c of the insanity that is school. But it will be here for me whenever I *can* get some time to read it, regardless of how much I get to do at one time ;-)
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The interesting thing about this book is that once I do get a copy of it, I don't expect that I will open it and not want to put it down until I am finished--unlike HP. I am also fully aware that I may be completely wrong here, and want to devour it from cover to cover, too. :-)
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On the other hand, going back to the bookstore multiple times to read it is a wee bit insane unless you go there everyday anyway on your lunch break or something convenient like that.
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It's not very nice to read a book and not pay for it (though borrowing from the library is exactly the same!), but I justify it to myself thusly: First, we spend pretty lavishly in the cafe, so the store makes money off of us. Secondly, most of the books I read are just mindless pastime, and I don't miss them if they're gone before I've finished them, and they're not worth anything to me. And thirdly, if I find a rare book that I actually enjoy, I do buy it, even after I've read it. (Which is what happened with the first 3 volumes of HP, btw). That's my particular brand of market economics. :-)
As for JK's book, I'm rather annoyed at the price tag. So I have to really like it to buy it.
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Ultimately though you will read the book--sometime--as seems to be the case with most replying to this poll.
Now I'm really intrigued to hear the reactions and reviews once people have had a chance to read it. My curiosity has shifted from whether people will read it (which I now know that they mostly will) to whether people will like it. Ergh...my insatiable curiosity!
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