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Originally Posted by Jo69
What exactly is the TBR list?
Is it a wish list you've created on amazon or somewhere?
Or a column of the books in your Calibre Library that yes you will read one day?
As opposed to many that you won't?
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For me, it's the set of all books I have purchased (or acquired for free) which I have not yet read but want/intend to read. Due to its size, I more often refer to it as the Tsundoku Massif.
I organize that set in two loose ways. In Goodreads, I maintain a "limbo-unread" list for ebooks that I need/want to go through and at least check the formatting on before loading them on a device. (Most of the indie fiction I buy has rather glaring problems in that area, such as excessive line spacing or using hardcoded spaces to indent paragraphs instead of just defining those paragraphs as being indented.) Once I process a book and load it onto my reader, it gets moved onto one of three lists to indicate urgency. "Want to Read" is the lowest, typically indicating that it's a sequel with other volumes ahead of it. "Shortlist" is for most books that have no such prerequisite - something I could read at any time. "Now-list" is the top, maybe 25 books which have attracted my attention. When I finish one book, I typically select my next one from "now-list" - unless I'm reading a series, in which case I go to "Want to read" to find the next book.
The other loose way amounts to prioritizing which limbo books to process first, and that's an even more complicated, tangled mess. Some of the levels in that system include "need to download" (usually for Smashwords, where downloading and adding the ISBN, description, and the full-size cover are four different manual tasks), "need to add/fix metadata," and at least four levels of urgency apply.
Like I said, it's a
big collection, and I deal with that by using priorities to chop it into (more) manageable pieces.