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The reason that I am trying to limit the growth of the to be read stack in not shear volume of books, its that with each additional book that I add to the stack it gets harder to crate a strategy on how to read all of them. Two or three are easy to figure out a reading strategy, fifteen to twenty are a tad harder but 2 terabytes worth, I don't know where to start.
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That's exactly why it makes more sense (to me) to throw "strategy" to the wind and just pick up the next book that catches your fancy. I have an
idea about what I want to read next, but it's never carved in stone or even formally "written down" anywhere, so I have no guilt about going out of order. Browsing my calibre library to see what jumps out at me is every bit as enjoyable to me as "browsing the stacks" at the bookstore/library. Hesitating because you don't know where to start is a completely foreign concept to me. No 16 ton weight is going to fall on my head if I get it "wrong." I simply put down the book that's not currently doing it for me and grab the next one.
I liken it to going to meetings at work: I can either
talk about the work you want me to be doing, or I can actually
do the work that needs done, but doing both is inefficient. Likewise, I can be
planning my reading strategy for the next year (creating lists, sifting priorities), or I can be reading. I know which one I prefer.
I'm not trying to be demeaning... I understand not wanting to spend ridiculous amounts of money on new books when you own a scad that you haven't read yet. I get that. I just don't understand angsting over the size of your TBR pile and strategic ways to decrease it. If I "catch up" with my TBR pile, I'm going to be pissed. Because that most likely means that nothing new has caught my eye in a very long time.
I wish you luck with your dilemma, though.
