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If your TBR is large, you should try waiting even for authors you like. Unless you plan to read the books immediately. After all, the book you buy today at full price might be in a Kindle Daily Deal tomorrow. Or Kobo might issue an unlimited 50% off coupon. But well done on resisting "oh this is on sale and looks good." |
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01-31-2017, 11:02 AM | #4112 |
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Eight hours to go, and only 3 (THREE!) books bought this month! (OK, I also added three freebies to my TBR.)
But with 13 read, I've reduced my TBR by 7 this month! I'm aiming to reduce by my TBR by at least 47 books this year, so I'm well on my way. I wonder what February will bring.... |
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01-31-2017, 11:03 AM | #4113 | |
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01-31-2017, 11:16 AM | #4114 | |
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(I have to confess that I have over five years of my average reading in my TBR. I'm working on it. But every time I make a new inventory of my books, it seems to get bigger!) |
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01-31-2017, 11:27 AM | #4115 | ||
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At some point I want to reorganize my Calibre library so that the active portion only contains books that will be read and I'll "archive" the rest, since storage is cheep, unlike shelf space. Quote:
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01-31-2017, 05:19 PM | #4116 | |
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01-31-2017, 07:03 PM | #4117 |
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Just when I thought I'd got through January unscathed, I was mightily tempted by a publisher's deal: regularly $14.99, now $2.99. But as I've said, I know it's easier for me to buy nothing at all, so I I'm sitting on my hands.
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02-01-2017, 02:33 AM | #4118 | |
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As for the growing inventory, I completely know how that goes. I've read 43 books so far this year, but a large chunk of those were graphic novels that I hadn't added to Goodreads. Thus, while I made a huge step toward meeting my annual goal, my TBR list didn't drop nearly as much as it "should" have - I'd start a GN, add it to GR for tracking, finish it, and my TBR would be right back at square one. The upside is that most of that - all of the complete GNs I had in comiXology, except one I reserve for emergencies - has now been taken care of. I still have some bundle-bought GNs, like the Buffy Birthday and Top Cow stuff, that need added, but those are pretty far down my list of reading priorities. In fact, now that I think of it, a big chunk of that 1899 count comes from the Open Road Christmas giveaway, where I got about 450 books at no cost. I'm so far behind on processing that bundle that I still need to add "I own a copy" notes on 400 of them to Goodreads, but setting those aside cuts my "unread books that need processed" count practically in half - from 1081 to 631. That's still a lot, but it's less than what's already on my Kobo. (Now, watch as I attempt to forget that a sizable chunk of the Kobo contents didn't really get processed well…) tl;dr - At least you know someone else is in even worse shape! |
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02-01-2017, 04:15 AM | #4120 | |
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My problem tends to be deciding what to pick up next, and this year's "weekly theme" structure is already helping me quite a bit in that respect. I had a short superhero novel "left over" from last week, so I dug into my archives for the back half of a series I've been meaning to finish to keep the week "thematically pure" before switching to SF next week. |
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02-01-2017, 06:32 AM | #4121 | |
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02-01-2017, 07:29 AM | #4122 | |
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What I wish is that I'd not carried over my pbook buying habits to the etherworld. It made sense to have a substantial backlog of pbooks, so that not only would I always have something to read, I'd always have a selection so I could suit the mood of the moment. This is, as we know, unnecessary with on-demand buying. But I still seemed to have the same level of "what will I read next?" insecurity, compounded by the lack of the physical brake created by stacks of books. Yeah, I know, bargains. But only if they get read at some point! |
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I bought a ton of ebooks while I was making steady money, well more than I could keep up with. I used the hell out of Kobo coupons, and if I hadn't, I wouldn't have been able to replace nearly as many dead-tree books as I did; that path is most likely closed forever. If I hadn't built up a big TBR pile while I could afford to do so cheaply, I'd be a lot worse off now. I don't regret that a bit. What I do regret, to some degree, is going overboard and paying full price for vaguely appealing books that I could've picked up anytime. |
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02-01-2017, 08:48 AM | #4124 | |
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Oh, well. It didn't take food off the table at the time and now it's a sunk cost. I think (hope!) I've finally learned my lesson. |
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