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Old 10-30-2020, 08:54 AM   #5406
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Originally Posted by issybird View Post
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.
I use sort of a tiered system to achieve this, although it works more loosely in practice than in the theory I'll describe.

Any new ebook purchase that is not a comic book or graphic novel goes into either limbo-read or limbo-unread, indicating that I need to at least check the formatting before putting it onto my Kobo. That's my big slush pile, which I sometimes subdivide on my hard drive to indicate which ones I want to handle first. Graphic novels are different because there's no such formatting needed; they go straight to Want to Read.

Once a book is processed and loaded onto the Kobo, I tag it according to urgency. Anything I could theoretically read right away either goes into Shortlist or Now-list, the latter being the most urgent category. Everything else (usually meaning later books in a series) goes into the general Want to Read category.

In theory, this means that upon finishing one book, I can either look in WTR for the sequel (if applicable), Now-list for something I've marked as wanting to read Real Soon Now, or Shortlist for anything else that tickles my fancy.
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