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Old 12-28-2013, 07:56 AM   #36
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Originally Posted by Nyssa View Post
And already I'm wavering on my promise to KISS! One of the book clubs I'm in over on GoodReads is starting a really cool (and flexible) series challenge.

I'm so tempted, especially since I do have a ridiculous number of series I'd like to both start and finish.
I'm doing something similar with the smaller challenge I'm in, which is to read a dozen books you've owned for at least a year but not read yet. I've got loads of Ent corpses, and with very few exceptions, they're over a year old. I've picked seven series out of the graveyard, and combined they account for 21* physical books. I've read at least the first book in all but one of those series, and this gives me an incentive to finish the rest.

In addition, one of the big reasons I switched to ebooks was to stop piling up more physical stuff. Unfortunately, the nature of an e-reader is that it encourages me to keep reading ebooks, which does nothing about the physical stacks. By deliberately adding these physical books to my challenge list, I hope to develop the habit of alternating between physical and electronic books, to finally reduce the physical stacks.

Plus, of course, those books all count toward my broader "read X books" goal - so each of those 21 books winds up doing triple or quadruple duty.

* Yes, that challenge is for 12 books and two alternates, which is only 14. I'm still finalizing my formal list, but the other seven books will go to my personal "secondary" list. It's just a question of which books I feel more like tackling when.
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