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Originally Posted by pdurrant
...I found I had more than 1000!
Which is why keeping a tight rein on my buying is important.
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More than 1000? Well, I hope I can get
down to that eventually. LOL Yeah, it's that bad.
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Originally Posted by issybird
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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Yeah, the total number is huge but I can't even guess how many of them will actually be worth a read. One of the first things I did after the big import was sort by average rating and then delete any that were under 3 stars. Not a perfect system, but it knocked about 150 off the list immediately which helped me start to feel like I had some control over this mess.
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Originally Posted by issybird
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 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.  |
When my WTR was unowned, it was usually kept somewhat under control, partly because I have a separate to-read-library-ku shelf. I've always been trying to somewhat minimize unnecessary purchases so I've been good about keeping on top of which books I could get at the library or on KU. (KU is on hold right now.)
The end result after last night's shuffling is that the WTR contains the owned books that I'm prioritizing, and it's a bit big (102, I think?) because it's varied. Series I want to get back to, non-fiction that I'm truly interested in, and standalone novels I really want to read in several genres. One of the biggest advantages of using the default WTR shelf for books I already own on Amazon is that I can access that list quickly right from my Kindle.
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Originally Posted by Rev. Bob
One thing I've done, which I mention in case you want to copy, is to create a non-exclusive "borrowed/do not own" shelf in GR. This is not only useful for library reads, but for sweepstakes which place the book on your Want to Read shelf when you enter. Tagging them into this shelf makes removing them considerably easier once the drawing takes place.
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I used to have both out-from-library and library-holds shelf for my current library activity. I only deleted them in the past few days because I'm not allowing myself to use the library till sometime next year. I have exactly one hold still active - #2 in Murderbot, because I've been waiting on that hold for literally months and that's one I will not deprive myself of.
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Thanks for the support and conversation, y'all. I know I make jokes and get silly but this latest face-off with the book pile has been both sobering and revealing. I mean, it's not a tragedy, too many books isn't the worst problem to have. But there have been so many things this year affecting my life that I have absolutely no control over, and this book situation is one of the few things I DO have control over and I think it could actually be emotionally beneficial to me to channel some of my chaotic energy into this.
