[DixieGal]

Recently, I found that I was swamped with books and spending as much time downloading as I was reading. Something had to be done to stop the madness. So I used the EBW Librarian (basically, a spreadsheet setup) and collected all of my downloads from home and work computers into one master list. They are categorized as Finished Reading, To Be Read, and Nonfiction.

Then I wiped everything off my device except for the few things that are "secure" and could not be put into the Librarian. After that, I loaded all of the TBR books onto the device. It took about 4 days working off-and-on to get it right.

Now I'm happily working my way through the TBR books, one after the other, and don't feel pressured or worried that I might be missing something. I'll get around to everything eventually. If I start something and don't like it, then it gets deleted from the device and changed to Finished in the Librarian.

I have a self-imposed moratorium that no more books will be put onto the device until I have read or rejected all of the books already there. By the time I finish that long list of titles, the only things that should be TBR in the Librarian are things that I have downloaded since getting organized.

I wasn't sure at first if I had the self control to slow down my reading and enjoy the books again, after going hog-wild and devouring eooks wholesale since getting my device. But it worked and I'm a happy reader.

As for pbooks, well, I haven't touched one since getting my device. I'm going to experiement with slicing the binding off of a few favorites and scanning them, but the others are destined for a thrift store retirement home.