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pdurrant · 12-19-2008, 09:32 AM

I was recently wondering when I'd get to reading the latest G.K. Chesterton upload by Patricia, so I decided to check the length of my reading queue.

I have my library organised by author folders. I also have two special folders, "New Books" for books I've bought but not yet read, and "Classics" which mainly contains interesting looking downloads from Mobileread.

I currently have 296 books in my "New books" folder, and 310 in my "Classics" folder. And while I have read a few of the "new" books before, and some of the "classics" (& some are reference so don't get 'read' in that way), I now have well over 500 novels waiting for me to read them. Hmmm... checking up, I have just over 2200 distinct eBooks in my library, so I've read about 1600 over the past six years. That means I already have enough unread books to last me for about two years....

Perhaps I ought to stop buying books for a while!

I blame the fictionwise sales over the past six months or so. Does anyone else 'suffer' from a long reading queue?

12-19-2008, 09:32 AM	#1
pdurrant The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠 Posts: 74,002 Karma: 315160596 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Norfolk, England Device: Kindle Oasis	Length of Reading Queue I was recently wondering when I'd get to reading the latest G.K. Chesterton upload by Patricia, so I decided to check the length of my reading queue. I have my library organised by author folders. I also have two special folders, "New Books" for books I've bought but not yet read, and "Classics" which mainly contains interesting looking downloads from Mobileread. I currently have 296 books in my "New books" folder, and 310 in my "Classics" folder. And while I have read a few of the "new" books before, and some of the "classics" (& some are reference so don't get 'read' in that way), I now have well over 500 novels waiting for me to read them. Hmmm... checking up, I have just over 2200 distinct eBooks in my library, so I've read about 1600 over the past six years. That means I already have enough unread books to last me for about two years.... Perhaps I ought to stop buying books for a while! I blame the fictionwise sales over the past six months or so. Does anyone else 'suffer' from a long reading queue?