# I cancelled my Kindle Unlimited subscription
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cancelled-my-kindle-unlimited-subscription/823268
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 20, 2018, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cancelled-my-kindle-unlimited-subscription/823268 "2018-10-20T23:22:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2018, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cancelled-my-kindle-unlimited-subscription/823268/1 "2018-10-20T23:22:02Z")
Kindle Unlimited truly sucks.
I wouldn’t mind spending some time every week to find three or four books that might be readable, but more and more, it was taking longer to find a book than to read it. Last time I tried, I looked through 50 pages of depressing garbage without finding a single book I was willing to try.
The [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com) main site does a pretty good job of making suggestions for me based on past purchases; Kindle Unlimited seems to think I like cowboy porn. Reader reviews don’t help as every book on Unlimited has four and a half stars.
Unfortunately, the local library doesn’t have a big selection of ebooks. Most of what they have is mass consumption junk, and worse yet, it’s a struggle to get a library book to load on my Kindle.
I like my Kindle and am a compulsive reader, so I’m going to have to figure something out.
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2018, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cancelled-my-kindle-unlimited-subscription/823268/2 "2018-10-20T23:46:21Z")
I know, right? What will we do? I am volunteering at the Library right now. I am reading paper books again, for the time being.
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2018, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cancelled-my-kindle-unlimited-subscription/823268/3 "2018-10-20T23:52:45Z")
Mom likes it for her Christian romance novels. The recommendations work for that. We calculated the cost and KU is cheaper.
Though it weirdly charges 75 cents more than it says it is–without any indication for why. The tax doesn’t quite fit, so I don’t get it.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2018, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cancelled-my-kindle-unlimited-subscription/823268/4 "2018-10-21T00:28:53Z")
Kindle Unlimited: Pay us to read a slushpile!
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2018, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cancelled-my-kindle-unlimited-subscription/823268/5 "2018-10-21T00:38:14Z")
Funny, I have no problem keeping my Unlimited queue filled with pretty good to really good SF and such. Even more so with novels about the Keys, Texas and Life Unordinary.
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### Author:  [@JXJohns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JXJohns)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2018, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cancelled-my-kindle-unlimited-subscription/823268/6 "2018-10-21T03:52:03Z")
> [@silenus](#):
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> Funny, I have no problem keeping my Unlimited queue filled with pretty good to really good SF and such. Even more so with novels about the Keys, Texas and Life Unordinary.
Same here.
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### Author:  [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2018, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cancelled-my-kindle-unlimited-subscription/823268/7 "2018-10-21T12:12:17Z")
For the $10/month that Kindle Unlimited costs, I can buy 3-5 books at $2-$3 prices, which is what the majority of books included in Amazon’s Daily Kindle Deals email cost. Add in a couple more cheap e-Book lists (BookBub, Early Bird Books, there’s a lot of them) and i have no end of non-slushpile books in my digital library.
At least every couple months, a recent bestseller comes through, usually more in the $4-$5 range. Today’s was [The President is Missing](https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/ref=pe_170810_358419270_pe_prime_button_b/?ASIN=B072F3MYRH), which isn’t something I’d normally buy but for $5, why not?
In the past I’ve gotten Booker/Pulitzer/etc prize winners (reading [The Luminaries right now, cost me $3](https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BAXFAJC/ref=oh_aui_d_detailpage_o08_?ie=UTF8&psc=1)), lots of classic sci-fi & fantasy (Octavia Butler books are on there a fair bit, as are Philip Jose Farmer, Neal Stephenson, etc), decent amount of history, etc etc.
Way better than unlimited, and the same price or cheaper, depending on how much you buy.
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### Author:  [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2018, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cancelled-my-kindle-unlimited-subscription/823268/8 "2018-10-21T16:16:16Z")
Any reason we couldn’t convert this into a Kindle Unlimited recommendations thread? Or start one as a separate thread?
Any objections to that **ioioio**?
**silenus** , what’s on your scifi list?