I used to be all about the count, like I'd feel proud knocking out a book a week and logging it. Then my group did Pachinko over two meetings and it was the best talk we ever had, people brought up stuff I totally missed about the grandma character. After that we tried rushing through two short books in one night and it was so flat, just five minutes of oh yeah that was good then silence. So yeah I flipped on this. One good book with real talk beats five skims every time, and nobody remembers the count anyway.

That purge valve issue is the whole ballgame right there, because a hood that leaks air makes the seal pointless no matter how good the skirt fits. In my experience the cheap knockoffs cut corners on the valve and the glue around it, so you end up fighting two problems at once instead of one. Your mileage may vary, but saving for a real one might actually cost less than burning through two or three fakes.