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Old 03-10-2015, 11:10 PM   #3397
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Originally Posted by issybird View Post
I guess there's browsing and browsing. I won't find something undreamt of in my library, but I still like browsing it to see which book jumps up and says, "Me! Me! Pick me!" when I'm looking for my next read. It's the same way I choose a perfume in the morning.
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Originally Posted by Katsunami View Post
For some reason, I rarely experience that situation.
Same here; I don't use perfume.

As for books, I've got several lists of varying priority. Just on my Glo, I've got a "read now" list (25-30 books), a "read soon" list (around 430 books), and then Everything Else... which consists of books I've already read plus later-in-series books. For instance, there's a six-book series where the first book is "soon" and the other five are "else." Then there are my physical stacks, where I've got a list of a dozen that I want to get to Sometime This Year (for a challenge) and the rest are pretty much "else."

Then there are the ebooks I haven't parsed yet - bought and downloaded, but I haven't cleaned up the metadata and/or CSS, so they haven't graduated to the reader/library yet. There are enough of those that I've sorted them into five loose piles: Already Read (physical books I've rebought as ebooks), First, Later, On Hold, and a handful of So New They Haven't Been Sorted Yet. There are a few subdivisions in there, like bundles that default to Later and a few books that need autograph pages added, but those categories are (more than) enough. I really need to plow through some of those piles...

So when I finish a book, I've got plenty of options on tap. It just comes down to what I feel like reading (or, for some physical books, unearthing) at the time. It's a lot like that "pick me!" process.
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