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Originally Posted by Rev. Bob
Speaking of assumptions…
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I’m not seeing the assumptions. When you’ve got hundreds (or thousands) of books, they can’t all be equally appealing. Moreover, unless you acquired then all within the past year or so (ok, there’s a tiny assumption there), you
have rejected most of them as your next reading choice, over and over.
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My electronic TBR list is up in the quadruple digits, the majority of which are freebies, indies, or heavily discounted Big Five books. I have years’ worth of reading material, easily.
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This is a very individual matter. I think that time spent on acquiring, vetting, processing freebies is a colossal waste of quality time that could be spent, I dunno, reading? The more so as most freebies/self-pubbed books are dross. But whatever works, etc., and I note you like the process. I still think fewer are more in the long run.
I’m not worried about running out of books. I’ve got a backlog, there’s the library, there’s public domain. I take a Micawberish view of it. And in the worst case scenario, even though I’m not much of a rereader I’d rather reread the quality books I own and have loved, than read a lot of crap just because it was free. Moreover, tastes change and even delivery methods fall out of favor. I look at all the now-yellowed, now-tiny-print paperbacks I’ve held onto for years and what a waste - I should have disposed of them once read. They represent a huge expenditure of effort and space over time and I’ve still got to deal with them.