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Old 04-08-2014, 11:26 AM   #35
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Originally Posted by soulfuldog View Post
Sounds good to me.

I have a bunch of books in my Calibre library. I guess that is my TBR list because I hope to get round to reading them all at some point, but when I'm loading up my ereader, I just pick out a handful that I know I want to read, the rest are just picked at random, along with a couple of freebies, so I'm not really sure if I have a TBR list or not?
I had actually intended for that post to be longer but I was hungry and the timer told me my food was ready to eat and everything else became secondary.

I use my well-organized collection in calibre the same way I would use a library. I look around, see what's interesting, grab anything I've been wanting to read and some stuff I might want to read, and load them on my ereader. I will only read some of them before repeating the process. There's never any sense of "I have to read these books" or "I should read these books before those" or anything like that.

(I also do the thing with the Overdrive plugin for books I want from my local library - that's a fairly recent development for me but it's working nicely. Fits in with my book selection process pretty smoothly.)

Anything more structured than that starts to feel like I'm giving myself homework. I don't think of my collection as a TBR because I don't think I ever had the intention to read all of them, I merely wanted the option to do so.

Freebies do get tagged (when I remember to tag them on import as such) but when they get prioritized below others it's usually just incidental - lately I've been reading established series and books by favorite authors, there aren't generally many freebies in those. But near the end of last year I was in the mood to read a bunch of Christmas-themed books and there were a lot of freebies among those.
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