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Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash
I'm taking small steps. Okay, one was a really big step that took a long time - importing 10 years worth of unread ebooks from Amazon to Goodreads. I'm not going to use numbers. I can't think about the number.
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I hear you. I only use TBR as a relative number: how much have I reduced it. It wouldn’t be productive or even accurate to put an absolute number on my TBR list; there are books that won’t be read. I did a few big purges early on; as of now, what’s left in Calibre is ranked for appeal. The bottom will never make it onto a reader and that’s good enough.
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Then, I moved some Goodreads shelves around, renamed some other shelves, and THEN moved a subset of the big pile of unread books, so that now my Want To Read shelf on Goodreads actually contains books I already own instead of books I might be tempted to buy.
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Thank you! It’s a minor but recurrent irritation for me the way people put every passing fancy onto their Want to Read shelves. I have GR friends who have WtRs of literally thousands of unbought books. I don’t see the point myself; like having thousands of freebies, it’s useless without a lot of additional effort. Why not be choosier? People can do as they please, of course, but it affects me when I try to do a book comparison and the other person’s books are mostly WtRs of the unbought. That tells me nothing; I want to see how they’ve rated books we’ve both read or at least know that they’re committed to the extent of actually owning it.
I have a limit for myself of 50 owned books for my GR WtR; right now it’s 48 but that’s because I merged another shelf of false starts into it. Still, it should be lower and you’ve inspired me to take a hard look at it and delete those I’m less likely to get to any time soonish. Then the list would be more of a motivation at that, instead of a lot of books I continue to reject.
