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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I'm hoping to get down to about six months to a year's worth of books in my TBR eventually - say 100 to 200 books. I'm not sure I'll make it this decade though...
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I quit making lists and making TBR's. I don't really care anymore, as long as I can get some very big Kobo codes now and again. If I can buy books at a rate of under €1 (sometimes as low as €0.35), I just buy everything that strikes my fancy. "Hey, 10 Malazan books in a €89 omnibus, now for €8.90. Hm. Very good reviews. GET OVER HERE!"
Compared to the paperbacks I bought in the past it's all negligible, both the financial outlay and the space required. I can now get 10+ books for the price I paid for one crappily printed and glued paperback back then, and it doesn't cost any space to store them.
So, if codes are available, I buy what I want in a gigantic spree, organize the books in calibre, make backups of my disk, and forget about them. When I want to read something, I use calibre as my personal library. (Obviously, it's a library restricted to genres and books I would actually read.)
Sometimes I have calibre pick a random book for me, and then I read that; if it's in the middle of a series which I didn't read yet, I'll start with the first book of that series.