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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
I encountered this a few years ago. I had just finished reading Marie Kondo's The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up, and my wife and I agreed that we needed to downsize some. Mind you, I am not a Kondo disciple, as there are a lot of issues of privilege tied up in the notion of being able to throw out/donate bags of stuff, but I appreciate the notion.
So, we went through every book on every one of our eight 6-foot shelves and decided what to keep. Easy enough. But I am the only one with an ebook library. So I put Calibre into cover view and tried to do the same. I build a TBR every January, and if I couldn't see that book hitting that list anytime soon, it was time for it to go.
As an alternative, you can create a folder of those books elsewhere on your PC and just remove them from Calibre. If, in 6-12 months, you have had no need to go looking for something to read out of that folder, delete it and be done.
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I can't stand the thought of wasting even more time going through my unread books to find the ones I'll never read!
Fortunately, my tagging system means that the mere presence of books I'm unlikely to read isn't normally bothersome (and the time spent tagging has already been spent).