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Originally Posted by issybird
Moreover, tastes change ...
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This is the biggest problem with having a very large TBR IMHO, especially books for which you've shelled out money. What you loved 5 years ago may be of little interest today.
Weirdly though, even classics that I enjoyed when I was younger don't keep my interest. I'm glad I got them free or cheap during the early Whispersync days because I now am not sure when I will get to them. Charles Dickens....where has your spark gone!?
As to paper books, I think by the end of the year, I will be paper free except for a few craft books and no more than maybe 20 cook books. I'm giving up my final novel (paperback of Sword of Shannara) to a Little Library. Thought it was gone long ago, but we have so many danged boxes it must have found its way there. Some of those books in my TBR were replacements for the paper books I had to give up because I couldn't read them any longer. So, I don't really have any guilt over those ones. The downsizing continues....