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Book Buying Problems and TBR

I am Ashley and I have a huge book buying problem.

I recently downloaded the Delicious Library, and using points bought a little bluetooth scanner because I am a total nerd who wants to catalogue all the things.

I decided to give it a go, and using this program catalogued the books on my shelves into Read and To Be Read piles.

I own 675 books. I have only read 260 of them. That gives me 415 books to read, not counting those which are on my TBR list that I want to take out from the library.

This is my pact, to not buy anymore books UNLESS they are the continuation of a series. This is my pact to only read books that I currently own from now on.

We’ll see how this goes, then, shall we?

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12 responses to “Book Buying Problems and TBR”

  1. Jorelene @ Page Chronicles Avatar
    Jorelene @ Page Chronicles

    WOW. That is a lot of books to own, and to read… How big is your bookshelf? I’m sure it must be beautiful if it holds that many books. I can only strive to have that many books one day!

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    1. alilypea Avatar
      alilypea

      It includes my digital shelves too, so what I have on my Kobo. Out of the 675 books I own only 295 of them are what I call “book books” which are printed on paper. The only reason I own this many is because every year for my birthday, and then Christmas I always end up getting bookstore gift cards. Like an insane amount.

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      1. Jorelene @ Page Chronicles Avatar
        Jorelene @ Page Chronicles

        Oh, that makes so much more sense! Haha, that’s still an insane amount, and it must be really great to have those many books on your bookshelf :)

      2. alilypea Avatar
        alilypea

        It is an insane amount, but a lot of them I got for very cheap, I think just because they were cheap.

        It is and it isn’t great. Because it’s actually quite daunting to see that big of a list, considering on average I only read about 100 books in a year, this is literally the next four years of my life haha.

      3. Jorelene @ Page Chronicles Avatar
        Jorelene @ Page Chronicles

        Haha, it is crazy when you think about it like that. I wouldn’t be able to hold off on buying books for four years – that sounds tough. It’s nice at least that you have a variety of books to choose from when you’re not sure what to read!

      4. alilypea Avatar
        alilypea

        Here’s hoping. I am debating on starting with the short books first, but that feels like cheating haha.

        I doubt I’ll be able to hold off on buying more books, I’m going to try not buying books for 3 months to start.

      5. Jorelene @ Page Chronicles Avatar
        Jorelene @ Page Chronicles

        Three months is a good goal!
        I don’t think it’s cheating by starting out with the short books – that might actually make the whole daunting task of reading hundreds more approachable :)

      6. alilypea Avatar
        alilypea

        My bank account will seriously thank me.

        I think that’s what I’ll go with when I finish what I’m reading now.

  2. LaChatBlanc Avatar
    LaChatBlanc

    I hope it goes well! This post made me smile. :)
    Also, 675 is a pretty good collection!

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    1. alilypea Avatar
      alilypea

      I hope so too!

      I feel like it is, but so many of the books are ones I bought for like a dollar just because they were on sale. So will I ever actually get around to reading those? Who knows?

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      1. LaChatBlanc Avatar
        LaChatBlanc

        Lol, I love it!
        I can relate; where I live there is a giant book sale twice a year and the books are priced incredibly low. I’ve recently cleaned them out though, since there were a lot I wasn’t going to actually read. ;)

      2. alilypea Avatar
        alilypea

        That will be my next task I think, is going through and determining what I will not read. And then strategizing how to go about reading those I do want to keep.

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