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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
I have found more I really to read since getting an ereader. My want to read list is frightening in length. A very good thing overall but can be stressful as there is no way I can finish it and I add more every week  |
This is my lament as well. I add to my TBR pile daily, and I can truly put the blame on my ereaders. Before I bought my first ereader, I think the largest my TBR pile had ever been was about 50 hardcover books. I'd see a book I wanted to read, look at my TBR piles, and say "No more buying -- yet!" I would then just add the book to a written list of future purchases. My TBR was physically intimidating.
The came my first ereader. Alas, there was no visible, physical pile of ebooks to be read. After all, what are a few bits and bytes when storage media is so cheap for so much? Today, my ebook TBR is more than 3,000 ebooks and growing daily. I'll not live long enough to read every book in my TBR pile even if I stop adding to it.
For me, books are an addiction. I can neither stop buying nor reading. The ereader has also been deadly for my hardcover TBR piles. Whereas before I had maybe a maximum of 50 pbooks waiting to be read, my current hardcover TBR has more than 125 hardcovers waiting and I just ordered several more.
Oh, well -- if I have to sink under something, I'm just as happy that it is under the weight of too much to read.
