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Originally Posted by Hampshire Nanny
I'm coming up on the end of two years with a self-imposed book buying ban.
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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
I don't have that kind of strength, but as 2016 is only a couple of months away, I have my first New Year's resolution decided upon: I will not buy new book until I have read at least two that I've previously bought and haven't yet read.
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I've been giving these posts some thought and they've helped me to a resolution. I do, as with Tom, have to get serious about net reductions in my TBR, but I also don't have HN's discipline. I've got sufficiently better about buying ebooks that I'm not as concerned with that, but this has pushed me to resolve not to buy any paper books for the first six months of next year and then I'll take stock. I didn't think I could commit to a year, but anything less than a half-year resolution makes it seem too easy just to postpone a purchase for a bit.
While I don't love eclutter, it's still a dang sight better than the the still-accumulating physical piles of books, and I don't even like to read paper books any more. But some books I want to read aren't digital and I'm too prone to order them, so they'll be here when I get around to them. I'd hate to run out of things to read.
Enough. If it's not digital and not at the university library, I won't read it. I'd need four lifetimes to read what I'd like to read as it is.
To bring this back to topic, some of my subgoals are in increasing jeopardy of not being met by year-end. I've got a lot of reading commitments and I'm not sure I can slot everything in. I'll try.