I read a lot of short fiction during the year: I subscribe to Interzone, Postscripts, Asimov's, F&SF, read a fair bit of online stuff... So whether I get a Year's Best at least partially depends on how much stuff it has that I haven't read! There is of course always quite a bit.
I've lately really enjoyed the ones that Jonathan Strahan has done with Karen Haber. I tend to agree with most of the selections. I have quite a lot of the old David G Hartwell ones, but probably at least partially because they're reasonably small paperbacks. I have a bunch of older Gardner Dozois ones, and they're great because they're hefty, but I haven't bought the last few since I've been reading a lot of the mainstream journals througout the year. I guess I haven't bought them because they're so big, and so not that cheap.

Jonathan's volumes have the advantage of coming out so early too, I guess...
I did enjoy Bill Congreve & Michelle Marquardt's Aus one (with you in it!), and I'm sure I'll get the next, because I don't keep up as much as I (perhaps) should with the Australian scene. But there isn't as much in the Aus scene of what I'm into (hard sf, although emphatically not old-school Analog mag type stuff; well thought out near-future or far-future stuff I guess). Mind you, I'm a fan of people like Kelly Link & Jay Lake recently, so I'm not too limited.

Anyway, that's my general pattern. "It depends", basically. I suppose I've talked mainly genre; science fiction and, perhaps, fantasy. Not interested in horror, and generally don't read much "mainstream" fiction or essays.

Thanks for asking :)

Excellent, congrats! The Greg one would be the one from the US-only SF Book Club Dozois-edited collection "One Million A.D.", which I bought via Gordon van Gelder... Haven't read it yet, but it's on the top of the pile...

My secret shame is that I don't regularly buy either the Dozois or the Datlow/[Windling|GrantLink] volumes. I was regularly buying the Strahan/Haber books, so I was upset when the iBooks bust happened. I'm looking forward to Rich Horton's series from Prime, and I'm still hoping the Strahan/Wolfe 'year's best writing about sf' gets off the ground at some point.

I don't.

Yeah, I'm just lazy like that.

I go spend my money on, like, volume 7 of Battle Royale, which is dedicated entirely to BRAINS SPLATTERING EVERYWHERE.

And Mimura finally dying. I was sad.

Yeah, got that impression from the 'next week on BR' in the back.

I won't be reading that on train stations.

We get Datlow's if one of our stories gets a mention in the back :-)

I bought the latest one by Bill and Michelle, but I can't say I've read it yet.

Undoubtedly it was, though it doesn't seem that long ago. Your sense of time goes when you get old, you know.

And you're right about the back of those books, but that doesn't mean you have to be. Um, right?

I buy the Year's Best Fantasy & Horror.

And...that's it.

I've really slacked off on reading short fiction in the last few years, but I regularly buy The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror.

Yup. :) See here for the reason why.

I've bought the Datlow/Wilding/Link/Grant and the Dozois best ofs for the past three or four years... I normally only get about half of them read before the next one comes out... as mentioned, their size tends to make them not so good for reading on public transport etc... I've also bought a few of the Hartwells Best SF volumes...

I used to read the Craven essays, although I haven't picked up a copy since it's been done by Dessaix (I think?)... from browsing through, it looked less political and therefore less interesting to me... don't know if this is true or not...

I bought the companion volume of Best Australian Short Stories this year, just to see what's being written outside the genre. I also have one volume of David Eggars' Best Non-Required Reading for a similar reason, but I've only read a tiny fraction of both thus far.