Assuming one or two a month counts as "avid" then I count.
Some combination of what's on sale, what my friends/family/favourite bloggers are reading, and what's in a field I feel like I could use more background in for the fiction I write. (Anything that's all three at once gets read first, then anything with two of the three, and then whatever fits at least one of those.)
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