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Old 11-29-2013, 01:17 PM   #2062
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
I keep around fifty or so books from my TBR on my device, so that I have a choice of book to read next when I finish one, and so that I don't have to work hard to remember which book is the next in any particular series - I only keep the next one on my device.
I edit the titles of my series ebooks to encode the series name and number, so that part isn't a problem. As for remembering what's next, I tend to catch up on a series all at once. That is, I'll read the current volume and then proceed straight through with the rest until I'm finished; I just tackled four novels and a tie-in novella that way, and I've just started an eight-book (well, trilogy omnibus plus five sequels) series where I expect to do the same.

The biggest TBR problem I have now is the Ent cemetery. My Kobo displays the current book's cover, so when I finish a book there, I feel a strong pressure to start a new book - just to avoid The Blank Screen. I also try not to read multiple books in parallel, with the exception of a graphic novel or something similar that I can read in one or two sittings. As a result, since I try to restrict myself to ebooks for new purchases, my forest of dead trees isn't growing...but it's not shrinking, either. It's just aging. Complicating matters is the fact that some of these books are in literal stacks, meaning that pulling one can become a game of literary Jenga.

What I need to do is, once I finish a series (or at least get caught up with it) on the Kobo, open (but don't start) a new book on it to kill The Blank Screen, but then put the ereader down and tackle a physical series. The one flaw in that plan is my monthly book club meeting, which takes place in a bookstore. I can bring an ereader in there, but not a physical book...so that tends to influence my reading choices around that date.
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