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Originally Posted by Yolina
I count freebies in my TBR pile too, but I only get them if I want to read them and not just because they're free 
My TBR has obviously increased now that I've spent all my mountain of no-rush credits, but it's at a very manageable level of 259 (I normally go through about 150 to 200 a year) so I'm feeling quite virtuous  |
I think that's fabulous. Congrats. I don't have an ideal TBR figure in mind, but I don't think I'd want to go much below 250. I have a lot of shelves/collections and I like a selection, even a small selection, in each one. And at 250, I'd just have all my unread books on my gadgets - that's about the number I keep in current rotation as it is.
The figure of 250 is what we call pie in the sky at the moment, though. Mixing my metaphors, what with OverDrive, public domain, and paper books, even when I'm getting through books at a pretty good clip, my TBR is like a glacier in pre-global warming days. There's very little melt. At least the ice age of increasing bulk has passed.