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Originally Posted by JDK1962
But there's a conversation there. Why do you think you've acquired that many books? How many do you add a week? How many do you read/discard in a week. Do you anticipate actually reading them all?
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Why? It's definitely a collecting thing. And I definitely do more collecting than reading. It's a bad habit for sure. Not only do I have so many books I've purchased, but about half of my reading is ebooks I borrow from the library. I buy maybe 1-5 per week, purchasing them if they are books that were on my wishlist and have become exceedingly cheap (under $3), and I get at least one per week when I get my $5 Amazon Gift Certificate from swagbucks. I pick up the occasional freebie from Amazon, but most of them aren't my cup of tea.
Ultimately, I generally finish 2 or 4 books a week. I'm at 107 for the year right now. This includes audiobooks (and I have a pretty big backlog of those as well). It takes me several weeks to get through an audiobook, as I generally only listen to those while driving.
Will I read them all? Not in this lifetime. Not if I don't stop collecting. I need an intervention.