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I read a lot, and a lot of my reading has been done on Webnovel.com, but recently, I've had to change that. Why? Because it's become literally impossible to read featured due to the premium features on this site.

Many novels require as much as 20$ to read to completion, some of them as much as 30$, and not all of them good. Many novels have 90% of their chapters listed as premium, regardless of their quality and or quantity. It forced me to take a step back and stop spending money at all on this website. In an attempt to further monetize novels, it simply turned me away instead. Now I simply spend my days reading fanfictions or privately translated novels since web novel is far too expensive for any avid reader to enjoy.

I have suggestions and encourage anyone else to share their thoughts on the issue besides "simply spend the money, stop being poor" or "simply don't read them if you don't like it".

Perhaps the introduction of a premium expiration date? after a certain amount of time as premium, the chapter becomes free? Like an early-access payment instead of a requirement.
Since I'm no longer able to access such chapters through advertisements, reintroduce those?
Simply give us a way out without spending ridiculous amounts of money for something that we can get for free if we stick the source through a couple of translation sites.

MaxiMaxe Before it was the case. For every 1-2 chapters premium, one previous chapter was unlocked. It was just growing at a different rate, not like now where only premium and locked chapters grow.
But you can find numerous threads talking about the same issue that you mentioned. Recently, a lot of companies have preferred immense greed and short term profits instead of taking care of consumers and planning for the long run. So, in that spirit, I will only ask you one question: " Do you guys not have spirit stones?"

No, not enough, it's never enough

It's honestly unfortunate because I would gladly pay 10-20$ a month if I could access all premium chapters, but instead, I'm forced to simply stop reading them.

This also hurts the people writing and editing these amazing stories, and it just hurts the overall earnings of the company. I really don't understand why companies sabotage their long-term popularity for short term profits, but hey. At least we still have Novelupdates.

MaxiMaxe Isn't there the 25$ a month read-all membership?

There may be, but it isn't available for readers on a computer, and I don't enjoy reading on my outdated and half broken phone if that is where it can be found. My options through this are fairly limited and it seems like Qidian basically bailed on a huge portion of it's reading base in order to promote it's app and premium features.

ShouldBeStudying and kindle unlimited is only $8 with finished books and even cn / jp / kr novels ...
qi is $26 for unfinished novels like I'm still waiting for VM after tofu's gone we were told it hs a new tlk'er that was about 10 days + and i can name more with a lot of dropped ones or unfinished
and then we have the fun that myself and a good few others have ..randomly locked chapters we've already unlocked