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Originally Posted by DrNefario
I've started keeping track of my "conversion rate" - how many of the books I'm buying I am actually reading.
Last year I managed about 30%, and about half of those were library loans, which have a built-in time limit. This year I have so far read 1 of the 17 books I have gained, and am in the middle of a second. The one I have read was a novella, and a freebie at that. The one I am now reading is my Prime lending library loan, which has a pseudo-deadline (I get one loan a calendar month, which means I need to finish this one before the end of February or I lose my February loan. Not that I know what to borrow for February.) That's not really a great record, although it is early days.
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This was one of my besetting problems in the pbook days. I'd buy the books I really wanted to read and borrow the books I kinda wanted to read from the library. And then the library books became the top priority. I'm much better now, but things still trip me up, like the monthly KOLL book. I'm usually not all that interested in whatever I've found to borrow, but the exploding nature of it adds a false allure.
I forgot to borrow my January book, though, and I'll let February go until month's end and maybe I'll forget again.
I'm trying not to buy any books at all, but I am doing a similar tracking of my conversion rate from last year. I hope to have read a reasonable percentage of them by the end of this year.