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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JoeGKushner" data-source="post: 2117523" data-attributes="member: 1129">I don't keep track of the PDF vs hardcopy. I know that I still try to review PDFs when I have time like the recent Legendary Weapons by the Game Mechanics, and I have Legends of the Samurai in my pritned pile, and several Ronin Arts books that I recently reviewed (Demi Planes and Planar Factions I believe)As far as purchased vs free. Most are freebies. I used to just do the purchased thing when I was freelancing for Shadis and Pyramid online but I received flat fee payments for those reviews. There's a good side and bad side to getting free material. The good side is that I get a lot of free material. The bad side is I'm not always timely when I review it or it's not my style. I know that I lost goods from Fast Forward, Bastion, and a few others due to slow reviews or the dreaded average rating. The slow reviews is my bad. When I get something that doesn't strike me, I either have to review it right away or wait for it to hit the top of the pile again. This has effected me with doing reviews for other sites for provided products like d20 Magazine Rack. Steeve is a great guy but I felt terrible when some of my reviews were waiting past 30 days so I eventually sent the books I hadn't reviewed to another member on the staff for handling.The other bad thing is that because I have so much material, I don't contact as many publishers as I used to. For example, with my friends playing HARP now, I'm tempted to ask for review copies from our local HARP master here, but due to the backlog, it'd take at least 30-90 days before I had some serious reviews of it done. Heck, when I was doing stuff for Gaming Frontiers, I had the whole line of Spycraft and Shadowforce Archer and I had to send it to someone else because I just didn't have time to playtest it or run any games with it. AEG was awesomely cool in offering me a copy of Stargate but once again, due to time restraints, I didn't take 'em up on it.When I buy something that's either got a lot of hype or that is useful, I try to add some reviews of it like Troll Lord's Book of Names or Arms & Armor 3.5 just so that 'my spin' is out there. On the opposite side, I also like other types of games so when I bought Gloom, a card game by Atlas, I reviewed that for RPG.net just so that other people could get an idea of what it's like. Short version: Good but terrible printing.I've kept most of them. I have three bookshelves in my bedroom, two more in the living room, and a bunch of stuff at a few friend's hosues. When I moved from a 3 bedroom to a 2 bedroom with a much smaller dining room, I just didn't physically have the room to keep the stuff. Some of my older material I've finally been getting rid of as well. For example, Games Plus just had their auction and I got rid of like 200+ items. I've also been following some of the 'market' trends and when I see something go for dollars like the Witch Fire trilogy, I e-bay it to help pay for little things here and there. I'd rather keep 'em, but the bills got to be paid!</blockquote>

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