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Wow! Love this idea! I'm tied up in other things these days, so I haven't bought anything since 6/10. (Guess that's success by accident.) However, once I get my other adventures under control, I'm putting myself on some sort of schedule and READING will be on there. Once that happens, the urge to buy will be strong again. So yes, once I'm back on track, I will do this.
I think that is a great idea!!
I love this idea. I just went out and got 10 books. 8 at the second hand book store and 2 at the Kindle store. I have to be stopped!
Lauren wrote: "I love this idea. I just went out and got 10 books. 8 at the second hand book store and 2 at the Kindle store. I have to be stopped!"I'm the same way, lol!
I have a question: what should we do with DNFs? I categorize my DNFs in two ways: "read" - meaning I have no intention of ever trying it again
"DNF Will try again" - Meaning that I have no real interest now but I might again in the future.
MrsJoseph wrote: "I have a question: what should we do with DNFs?"That's a good question.
I don't count DNF books as "read". I just remove them from my TBR. Books that I begin and put aside to try again at a later date remain on my TBR.
Loosheesh wrote: "Hmm, good question. I'm thinking those you consider to be "read" should count, and those you shelve as "will try again" can remain on the TBR list until you actually read them or decide you won't e..."I like this idea. :D That way my DNFs count toward a new book credit. :)
I like your idea to, Lauren. My only issue is where do I shelve the book after I DNF it. I don't keep an exclusive DNF shelf, only for those books I plan to pick up again in the future.
I've been fascinated by this challenge, since I've been trying this year to work at my TBRs, both ebook and pbook. I just counted up, and so far this year I've bought five pbooks, but I've read 21--which seems a decentish ratio at slightly better than four to one, if not up to challenge levels. I'm thinking that I'll take the year as a whole and aim for a five to one ratio, which means I'm four pbooks behind. By the end of the month I should be caught up, I think.
I'm glad you decided to join in! It's really hard for me but I need the discipline, lol.
The pbooks are more of a problem for me than the ebooks, since ebooks are so expensive with Agency pricing. But the challenge is really holding me back; I've got a few pbooks I'd love to buy, but I'm telling myself I have to earn them.The sweetener is that the pbooks represent real physical clutter. I'd love to get a lot of crap out the house, and not just books.
As for DNFs, I borrowed a shelf title from someone else at GR: too crappy to finish. Obviously this could be cleaned up a bit, lol. I have to click read but I don't count them toward the 100-book challenge. And there they sit with their single star in my too crappy to finish folder.
I haven't been doing too well with this. I keep finding new books to add to my TBR. I really need to get a grip on myself.
This sounds really interesting and I think I will give it a try.
I really need to do this. I keep getting more books and forgetting about the ones I have had for 6 months or years.
TBR Mountain Decimation Challenge
Inspired by Dawn at FA
Decimate
1: to select by lot and kill every tenth man of
2: to exact a tax of 10 percent from
3a : to reduce drastically especially in number
3b : to cause great destruction or harm to
It has become apparent that there are those of us who have a small addiction…to books. Our "To Be Read" lists have become so mind boggling, life expectancy defying-ly huge that we have ceased to call them lists and have dubbed them mountains. We haven’t yet met a library we didn’t like while simultaneously spending every free dime on books.
Take me for example:
TBR Owned: 125
TBR: 223
Total: 348
Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a problem.
Thus I suggest to you the TBR Mountain Decimation Challenge. There two parts to this challenge.
The first challenge is to read at least 1 out of every 10 books on your TBR Mountain. If you have library books, you have to read those first.
The second (and possibly hardest) part of the challenge is to not buy any books if you don’t read X number of books first. You choose the number, but in order to be sporting it really should be more than a 2:1 ratio. :- ) For example, Dawn purchases 1 book for every 6 books she reads.
So, who’s interested in trying to decimate some of those TBR Mountains?!