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Originally Posted by crossi
Any one else making a serious effort to finish their TBRs?
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I never had a backlog of more than one series when reading on paper. Now I've got a backlog of 487 ebooks (mainly caused by many Forgotten Realms novels). There are also 23 Delphi Classics that, sometimes, contain a lot of novels per book/omnibus.
I buy the books I want at sales, and I often pay less than $1 for each of them. Also, I buy in sprees. In January, I've bought nothing. At some point there may be sale, or a huge reusable Kobo coupon, and I'll buy 50 books again.
Therefore, I stopped caring about the TBR pile: I see Calibre as my own personal library that is about 10 miles away. After I finish the current series on my e-reader, I open Calibre, find something new to read, put it on the reader, and close Calibre again.
At this point in time, I'm obviously still within the "I can read everything I own" range, if I don't count the Delphi Classics. I buy them because they were cheap, complete, and often contained stuff like stories and illustrations that are not available anywhere else. For example, I bought the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle one because then, I'll have a fully illustrated Sherlock Holmes and Challenger set, and the book Through the Magic Door. I never intended to read the entire omnibus.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
I stand no realistic chance of being able to read even a significant fraction of the eBooks I've bought within my lifetime. I too am continuing to buy more books than I read, despite having a list of unread books that numbers in the thousands.
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If you are beyond the point of ever reading what you own now, then why do you still buy more books? You wouldn't have done so if they were paper books, probably; just for building a library so you can always find something to read?