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Originally Posted by issybird
Upthread, you mentioned having 4300 Kindle books, over 95% free. How can you navigate that without spending time curating it? One way or the other, it’s a time sink. If nothing else, you probably would benefit from being choosier up front and only acquiring books you really, truly see yourself reading in the next month or two. As it is, if you’re averaging reading 100 books a year, you’ve already got your next 43 years of reading, and that’s without “buying” any more books at all.
Eclutter is still clutter. You want to be able to see the trees and not just the forest.
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Yeah, it's a lot but there's a decade or so worth in there I've already read so it's not as many years reading as it seems. As far as curating, I pretty much don't. I deliver a few dozen to my Kindle and work my way through them, removing them as I go along. When I get down to just a few I go to manage c/d and go through and deliver a few dozen more. Yeah, I guess I might spend a half hour or so going through and choosing and delivering them but then I'm set for months. And I should pass on more buying but I'm a sucker for military history and novels, especially WWII era, so I get all of those every time.