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Old 06-26-2014, 05:19 PM   #2879
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
So those 900 are bought ebooks you haven't yet read? That is a very hefty TBR. My TBR is a mere 764 as of today.
It's a little more complicated than that, but pretty close. Out of 902 total documents on the reader, one is my own novel in progress and another is a book I finished reading earlier this week. Of the 900 remaining, some are short stories and some are books that I've read but don't want to be without - such as my Tom Holt, Stephen King, and Robert Heinlein collections - so you can probably knock about 80 more titles off. (I count 78, but rounding is good.) That takes me down to "only" 820 unread ebooks on the reader. Some of those were freebies, but I don't have numbers on those; I don't treat paid as different from free.

Actually, that's not quite true. I've got a big "Pending" folder that contains everything I've acquired but not sorted through and incorporated into my library yet, and one of its subfolders is a "not added to Goodreads" pile, most of which were freebies. (Some of those will get added, but...well, it's complicated.)

So, if I take that Pending folder and subtract the not-in-GR stack, a quick check tells me that I've got 352 books yet to process. I know there's a lot of Kobo-driven backlist content in there, but I doubt that amounts to half the total. In fact, when considering the not-in-GR stack, it's probably best if I call the unread-and-unprocessed total an even 280...again, rounding is good. That takes me to a cool 1100 unread ebooks on my system. Then there are the very-roughly 400 unread Ent corpses to factor in, which takes me to 1500 volumes...an estimated ten years' worth of reading.

So, yeah...my TBR's (very roughly) around twice the size of yours. However, my TBRRFN (TBR Right F'ing Now) list is only 36 items, and several of those are shorter works - like the Tor.com Hugo-nominated short fiction. That's a lot more manageable, right?

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