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Originally Posted by Ripplinger
I only have about 1500 ebooks so far, but I'm pretty careful about adding what I will have a pretty good interest in reading. So for me, the answer would be no, and doubly so if they were paid for, even $.99 books. I keep all my books on my PC though and only load about 100 or so on my reader at a time now. . . .
Otherwise, depending on how long you live, you might run into the free time to actually read those titles and they may interest you again.  |
I have about 2600 ebooks in my TBR pile. I find I am constantly adding to the pile, even though I tell myself to stop.
Like Ripplinger, however, I keep the books on my PC and backed up to other media for security. I keep about 300 books on my Nook. After I have read and removed a few dozen of the books, I add some from the TBR pile.
It is unlikely that I will live long enough to read all of the books, but what I have learned is that I need to give every book a try because there is no telling in advance which is the gem among the trash. My experience has been that for every really well-written, captivating book in my TBR pile, there are a dozen that should be burned at the stake as insults to intelligence.
As for the books I have bought from B&N, my habit is to archive those I have read for at least a year and then review them to see whether I should permanently deltee them from the online storage (I will still have a local copy).
Something else I should note. I have also found that when I do read a book from the TBR pile and I discover that I really like the author's style, I go out and purchase other books by the author and read them immediately. This slows down my efforts to reduce the TBR pile.
So to answer Don's question, no, I won't be doing any wholesale pruning and I will keep buying ebooks and adding them to my TBR.