Read — no, I don't. Download to skim and see the contents — yes (even though I don't do it everyday, obviously). In fact, I rarely download less than 4 books at

Read — no, I don't. Download to skim and see the contents — yes (even though I don't do it everyday, obviously). In fact, I rarely download less than 4 books at once, except for occasions when it's a new book of my favorite writer (in which case I can as well just buy it). Instead, there is some topic, some reason why I need these books, and I somehow can gather a dozen of recommendations, maybe more, then I need to actually get a look inside of them, to see what I'll be reading (if anything). It also happens that I kinda know the book, but not precisely enough, because some authors really like to milk the topic by publishing 5 books kinda the same as the first successful one, and if they are technical they can have 5 revisions each. I may not read them at all, or I may be reading them during the whole next year, but I'll need to get them all at once at first. And if we also count papers, which this site provides too — easily.