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DrNefario · 11-07-2018, 08:30 AM

I'm not going to make myself read something I don't want to read, just because I paid money for it in 2011. It might add a bit of weight to the scales, but I'm still reading for enjoyment, and recognise that I own quite a lot of books I'm probably not that interested in any more, or was never that interested in, in the case of some freebies.

My collection is pretty uneven. SF & F are my weaknesses, where I am most likely to buy a book I don't need and maybe can't even read for a couple of years, until I've read its antecedents.

I've been tracking "conversion rate" this year, which is how many of my acquisitions I've actually started reading. It's running at about 30% overall, but for non-fiction it is 100%. This tells me I should probably be more relaxed about picking up non-fiction books and less willing to pick up SF and fantasy, but I doubt it will work that way.

I set myself an exercise, recently, to go through my TBR and pick out 50 books I definitely wanted to read and could read right now (ie. no deeper series books) in each of the following categories: SF, Fantasy, Crime, Other fiction and Non-fiction. Sadly, I was able to fill all 5 lists of 50 fairly easily.

11-07-2018, 08:30 AM	#4862
DrNefario Wizard Posts: 2,218 Karma: 12029046 Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: UK Device: Kindle, Kobo Touch, Nook SimpleTouch	I'm not going to make myself read something I don't want to read, just because I paid money for it in 2011. It might add a bit of weight to the scales, but I'm still reading for enjoyment, and recognise that I own quite a lot of books I'm probably not that interested in any more, or was never that interested in, in the case of some freebies. My collection is pretty uneven. SF & F are my weaknesses, where I am most likely to buy a book I don't need and maybe can't even read for a couple of years, until I've read its antecedents. I've been tracking "conversion rate" this year, which is how many of my acquisitions I've actually started reading. It's running at about 30% overall, but for non-fiction it is 100%. This tells me I should probably be more relaxed about picking up non-fiction books and less willing to pick up SF and fantasy, but I doubt it will work that way. I set myself an exercise, recently, to go through my TBR and pick out 50 books I definitely wanted to read and could read right now (ie. no deeper series books) in each of the following categories: SF, Fantasy, Crime, Other fiction and Non-fiction. Sadly, I was able to fill all 5 lists of 50 fairly easily.