[issybird]

I crunched my numbers for 2011 in regard to eating away at my TBRs. The news on the pbook front is encouraging; I bought five pbooks but have read 21, for a slightly better than 4/1 read/bought ratio. My plan is to bump that up to 5/1; then I get to buy a pbook for every five pbooks from the TBRs that I read (thanks to the challenge at GR for this idea). It will still be years before I get through the stacks of books, but the trend is in the right direction.

The ebook news is more problematic. My stats are a little murky, but it looks as if I've bought 31 ebooks this year and have read 13. My goal for the year is to get the read/bought ratio to 1/1, which is very doable, especially since I've just about exhausted the options at the three overdrive libraries I use. The pertinent issue here is that almost all my ebook purchases this year were bought before Random House joined the Evil Cabal, so mostly the temptation doesn't exist anymore.

As a result, I have mixed feelings about eating away at my eTBRs (which include pre-2011 purchases). Most of the books were bought at very attractive prices which can no longer be duplicated. Once I read the ebooks I own, I'll be seriously out of pocket keeping myself in ereading material and I greatly prefer reading on my devices these days.

I suppose the lemonade-from-lemons aspect is that this should encourage me to keep at my pTBRs, which are cluttersome and have been around much (and in some cases, much, much, much) longer. But reading is for love, so ultimately I'll read what I feel like reading.