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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Oh - an an example of why it's not wise to have a large TBR...
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I don't like ebooks with regard to the TBR pile.
While reading from paper, I got about 4-10 books at once; maybe 1-3 series, and I'd read one book from one series, one from another, and so on, until everything was done. Then I got another 4-10 books, and so on.
All these cheap books and some huge almost-free collections (darn you, Delphi) have netted me a TBR pile of over 300 books in only two years. (And then I'm counting the Delphi collections as one book each, which they obviously aren't.)
Problem, you say?
Yes. I only read about 50 books a year, and the TBR pile causes me to want to read something ELSE than the book I'm reading at the moment. It doesn't matter what I'm reading, I always have that pile and the sense that I must read more and faster in the back of my mind. To be honest, having such a large TBR makes me feel rushed, and I don't like being rushed. I'm no fracking river with a maelstrom in the middle.
Having all books on my reader makes this worse.
Therefore I've wiped all books from my Kindle, and I just put one (1) on the device, and I treat Calibre like a library that's 10 miles away. I never open it and never browse through it, except to add books, and to put one (1) book on my e-reader.
It also creates the sense that the e-reader is a book I'm reading, instead of a data storage device that happens to be able to open books.... I only have two books on the reader when I'm nearing the end of one. If I end that one, I *WILL* start the book that I put onto the reader some time ago.