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Old 02-01-2017, 02:33 AM   #4118
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
(I have to confess that I have over five years of my average reading in my TBR. I'm working on it. But every time I make a new inventory of my books, it seems to get bigger!)
I've got over a decade of reading lined up, but most of it needs to be processed and polished before I load it onto my reader. (My reader shows 940 books loaded while Goodreads shows 1899 unread ebooks, but I've already read some of that 940 - they're on the device for rereading and/or evangelizing.) That doesn't even count a few hundred untouched Ent corpses…

As for the growing inventory, I completely know how that goes. I've read 43 books so far this year, but a large chunk of those were graphic novels that I hadn't added to Goodreads. Thus, while I made a huge step toward meeting my annual goal, my TBR list didn't drop nearly as much as it "should" have - I'd start a GN, add it to GR for tracking, finish it, and my TBR would be right back at square one. The upside is that most of that - all of the complete GNs I had in comiXology, except one I reserve for emergencies - has now been taken care of. I still have some bundle-bought GNs, like the Buffy Birthday and Top Cow stuff, that need added, but those are pretty far down my list of reading priorities.

In fact, now that I think of it, a big chunk of that 1899 count comes from the Open Road Christmas giveaway, where I got about 450 books at no cost. I'm so far behind on processing that bundle that I still need to add "I own a copy" notes on 400 of them to Goodreads, but setting those aside cuts my "unread books that need processed" count practically in half - from 1081 to 631. That's still a lot, but it's less than what's already on my Kobo. (Now, watch as I attempt to forget that a sizable chunk of the Kobo contents didn't really get processed well…)

tl;dr - At least you know someone else is in even worse shape!
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