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Originally Posted by CRussel
I'm in trouble here. I've bought or acquired 116 books (actually 137 since many are multiple book volumes), and only read 55. This is NOT improving my TBR one bit, and I'm clearly out of control.
The only good news is that many of them were either library books or public domain, and several others were cheap bundles, so my cost per book is still only ~$2. But I really need to get this under control. Especially since at least two of those bundles turned out to be mostly duds.
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At least library books disappear after a while
I 'solved' the Public Domain/freebie problem by simply not adding them to my TBR (and occasionally using CC's random book selector to choose my next book so that there's still a chance of reading them) along with the rule 'no books I wouldn't spend a buck on'
I now only buy cheap book bundles if there are enough individual books that I actually want to read to be worth it. Those books go on my TBR list, books that might be worth reading someday are added to the general pool and books that will be never ever read are junked. This way my TBR list isn't full of junk that was bundled in with stuff I actually wanted to read (although I still have to thin out stuff from before) and I'm less likely to buy bundles simply because they were cheap and sounded vaguely interesting.
My TBR list is still currently over 400 books so obviously these are mitigation strategies rather then a solution to excessive book buying.
