01-30-2014, 09:55 AM | #16 |
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This for me too. Just the free books I've been picking up each month from the Deals section here lately puts me even deeper in the "never ever able to read it all" category.
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01-30-2014, 10:22 AM | #17 | |
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I'm not losing any sleep over it, though. The expense has been trivial in the grand scheme and storage issues are non-existent. I compare that to my perfume collection, for example, where I also own far more than I can consume in my lifetime, purchased at quite some expense, difficult to store, and prone to deterioration (also a consideration with ebooks, if you don't stay on top of things). |
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01-30-2014, 11:20 AM | #18 | |
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I do everything this way: the same, the same, the same, something different. (don't know what that is called) I do this with food, TV, hobbies, and esp books. I will read romance, romance, romance, biography, biography, biography, etc. Except it isn't just 3. I have been eating the same thing for dinner for close to 5 years (Lean Cuisine Pizza). Pretty soon, I won't be able to look at another one, and will go to something else. I guess I don't do very well with a lot of options. That is why I hope putting just 80 books on my kindle will help. There is a wide variety on there (political, nonfiction, romance, mysteries, thrillers), but it is better than looking at Calibre, which although I have virtual libraries, is just overwhelming at times. I had no problem going through 2000 books yesterday, but if I were looking for ONE book, I would be lost. |
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I believe that the most depressing thought I could ever have, is thinking that there is a possibility of completing my TBR list in my lifetime. |
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01-30-2014, 12:12 PM | #20 |
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I treat ebooks like I do groceries: I buy them for a period of time in advance in order to "save money" or follow a carefully laid out plan, then I end up ordering pizza from the delivery service.
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01-30-2014, 12:48 PM | #21 |
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I stopped Visiting The "Hey!! Let's get some action going! What are we reading? " thread because every time I did I would add more books to my ever increasing TBR list.
I am trying to get through the books I already have but there is no end in sight. |
01-30-2014, 02:08 PM | #22 |
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My public library and Project Gutenberg have thousands and thousands of books I'll never get to, I'm not any more bothered that I probably won't finish all the ebooks I've collected.
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01-30-2014, 02:54 PM | #23 | |
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I've been putting a lot of books on my wishlist instead of buying them. I'm only buying the ones I'm planning on reading right away or that are too good a bargain to miss. A lot of the ones on my wishlist drop in price and those emails from ereaderiq are slowing my progress on getting through my TBR list. What hurts is when an author drops the price on a whole bunch of their books all at the same time. To buy or not to buy? If I like an author I really do like to have all of their books. |
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01-30-2014, 03:13 PM | #24 |
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01-30-2014, 03:19 PM | #26 |
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Have a list of approximatly 200 books Iwant to read but don't own a copy of any of them. 50/50 chance that I will actually buy a copy of them, but only a twenty percent chance of that. I am attempting to hold down my purchases of books.
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01-30-2014, 03:21 PM | #27 | |
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01-30-2014, 03:58 PM | #28 |
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I personally don't worry about my TBR list. I have a bunch of books in Calibre, and once I finish one I pick another one. I don't know how many books there are in there to be read, neither do I care - every now and then I add some, so the list doesn't run down too low, that's as far as I go.
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01-30-2014, 04:05 PM | #29 |
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This is me. I use to get anxious about all the paper and e-books I have that I haven't started. Between books bought online, books bought used and books borrowed from the library, I realized that there is just no way I'm going to read every book in my TBR list. Now, I just buy books without worrying about when or if I'll read them. Getting them on sale or used helps because then I don't feel like I've spent a ton of money on books that I might not read.
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01-30-2014, 04:06 PM | #30 |
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