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AJ wrote: "This week, I have purchased no less than 5 books. I haven't even really read all that much. Does anyone else seem to have a problem where they buy books faster than they can read them?"Yes, and so it goes.
I do try to keep the aquisition rate below the reading rate, but it really is rather hopeless...
I used to accumulate tonnes, especially when Borders still existed. Their 3 for 2 tables were too tempting! Now that I have made the transition to ereading I just get them as I go.
Susie wrote: "I used to accumulate tonnes, especially when Borders still existed. Their 3 for 2 tables were too tempting! Now that I have made the transition to ereading I just get them as I go."Even with kindle, I accumulate them and I have on hand so many dtb, I'm trying to clear them out but I find I like reading on the kindle better now.
An example - I took 3 books and my kindle on vacation; finished the books and donated them to the town library here, but managed to find 3 in their sale racks. Then on our way to a lobster pound for lunch spotted a sign for the annual library book sale in the next town on Saturday. So guess where I'll be on Saturday? Thank goodness this is a driving trip and I have room to bring home books!
I am a big library user because it's just so easy. But I also accumulate books. And occasionally grab a few from Amazon when I need them in a hurry. But there are lots of places to donate them when I'm finished. There are library carousels, carousels at the pool, on vacation, I leave them at my mothers house, at doctors offices. I give them to patients. I actually just ordered the Alice Network. I needed it for August, and it wasn't coming quickly enough. I buy books for my kids. My house is indeed overrun, and my husband gets a little annoyed. But I also need a place to stack the library books. Got some great ones for August, even one from the seven day speed read. So I better finish Celine today. Got five days left for the seven husbands of Eleanor Hugo.
Amy wrote: "I am a big library user because it's just so easy. But I also accumulate books. And occasionally grab a few from Amazon when I need them in a hurry. But there are lots of places to donate them when..."I stopped using the library because the friends of the library section was so good I couldn't stay away from it and I have too many books which I own, to need to use the library, unfortunately. Sometime in the distant future, when I have read all my books and haven't replenished them, I will go to the library again.
I have a book-buying problem, I'm aware of it. It all started back when I lived in Verona and there was a great second-hand bookstore. I started accumulating then and there. I had the same problem in Florence, where the second-hand bookstores were more than one, all extremely good.Then I buy books at book fairs, because hey, they're cheaper and there are so many tiny publishing houses that are so interesting and I wouldn't find their books in bookstores now would I?
Then there is the Kindle store. Buying ebooks is simply too easy - a clic is enough, and the damage is done.
Goodreads tells me I own a little over 320 unread books/ebooks. Preposterous. My sister tells me I'd just need 3-4 years to read them all, but the problem is I keep buying them. She says that's not a real issue, lol!
I sometimes get rid of my paper copies, though. I free them through bookcrossing, I give them to friends or family, I swap them on book swapping websites. I don't sell them, though.
I prefer the library also, I actually own relatively few book for how much I read, but I love going to the library and just wandering, or going straight to a list of books I want and coming out with a huge pile of books I'll have to renew three times to be able to read them all.I'm not quite the type to buy new books, unless they're inexpensive (2 for 1, half-off, etc.) or that I've already read it and love it so much I want it accessible all the time. I am however a sucker for second-hand books, and cannot go into a second-hand library without coming out with at least two or three new books, whether I've heard of them before or not at all. For example, once a year the big library in Montreal has a sale for all their old books they don't have space on the shelves for anymore, they sell the a dollar each, and I'd barely finished the ones I bought in 2016 than the 2017 one came along, and I bought five books there. And seeing I haven't even started any of the yet, I doubt I'll be done before the 2018 sale. But I'll still go.
up until i was 19, i could definitely say that a book i bought would be read within the week and no new book is going to be bought until those i've already bought have already been read. however, after i started working and started rediscovering my love for reading, i suddenly started buying books and then just buying and buying and buying until i realized i have 1 full shelf of unread new books so now i'm on a book buy ban (on new titles and excluding harry potter) until i have only 5 books left unread on my collection. i wish i wish i wish i could go to a library that have nice books. but unfortunately where i live, there is no such thing.
I mainly accumulate books because I will buy DTB, but then read my nook- or library books. So I'm consistently reading, but never actually reading the books I buy because "they'll always be there".
AJ wrote: "This week, I have purchased no less than 5 books. I haven't even really read all that much. Does anyone else seem to have a problem where they buy books faster than they can read them?"Oh, absolutely. I haven't read at least half of the books I own and I keep buying more.
I'm big on the library. The only books I really buy are how-to books, like cooking, quilting, gardening reference books. It's a rare fiction that I buy with the exception of e-books that I can get for a song or, sometimes free. They don't take up space though! What I usually do is choose my books for the month from the tag, or a challenge, then get on-line with the library catalog and find out if they own it. If they do, I put a hold and get them for the month. If they don't I think it might still be available, I'll request them to purchase the book and they often do! (But Hey! I'm a librarian!)
This is why I use the library for most of my reading! This way if I don't get to a book, I can return it and not feel like my money is tied up in unread books. That said, there are books I have bought that have taken me years to get around to reading.
I buy far fewer books than I used to, and I usually prefer to read on my kindle or laptop. I buy ebooks when I can get them cheap and I buy audiobooks with 2 monthly credits, if I can't get something I want on overdrive.That said I like to have the physical book if the book is beautifully printed. Good illustrations, beautiful binding, it's like owning a work of art. And I try to support my local independent bookstores. so when I want a dead tree book, I give them my business.
I borrow over 90% of the books I read, almost all of them via Overdrive for Kindle. The rest of my books come from my Audible membership and my book closet (Yes I have a book closet). I think I bought 5 books this year and I've read three of them.
I am like Linda--I actually purchase very few books. Libraries are my friend! I maybe purchased 10 print books in the last year?I also purchase audiobook with my Audible credits, so about 12 over the last year...maybe a few less as I am sitting on three credits at the moment. The Audible ones are easier to move though ;)
Ellie wrote: "I prefer the library also, I actually own relatively few book for how much I read, but I love going to the library and just wandering, or going straight to a list of books I want and coming out wit..."I'm like Ellie. Primarily, I use the library, but - especially the past 10 years or so - I seem to picking up more and more books from used bookstores (or free from Little Free Libraries... which is also where I often drop them off when I'm done). My Kobo made buying books easier (unfortunately!), as well. It's rare that I'll buy any priced more than $5, but even then, I seem to have way more than I ever need!
I have an issue with buying books and then reading library books on the Kindle instead. LOL!
Clearly we all need to start "Readers Anonymous" and call it a day. I've gotten better thanks to e-readers and Overdrive, but still buy a lot of ebooks and have TONS of DTBs that I haven't even read.
All right, I have to ask... what exactly does DTB stand for? XD
Ellie wrote: "All right, I have to ask... what exactly does DTB stand for? XD"I did not know either!
Joi wrote: "I mainly accumulate books because I will buy DTB, but then read my nook- or library books. So I'm consistently reading, but never actually reading the books I buy because "they'll always be there"."
This is my problem too. In fact if I really want to read it I won't buy it because then I'll never read it! The library books have to be returned so it gives me an incentive to read them first!
I have that trouble too. That's why there's a stack in my hallway. The Library books live on top of all The only books that I've picked up at various carousels, cheap fairs etc. it's a lot harder to get to because I own, but I have been working at it. I started charting how many books I've owned that I've read, but the trouble is half of them I bought. The other half have been giveaways or ones I picked up for cheap somewhere.
Yeah --- I used to feel bad about buying books. But my attitude has changed over the last couple of years. I love to read and in order for me to read, someone has to produce the books that I read. In order for them to produce the books, they probably need to get paid which means that people need to actually buy the books.I do try to use the library as much as possible, especially when I've been not working. However, I will almost always buy a book at an independent bookstore because I want the small business to stay in business.
JoLene wrote: "However, I will almost always buy a book at an independent bookstore because I want the small business to stay in business. ."Good point.
JoLene wrote: "Yeah --- I used to feel bad about buying books. But my attitude has changed over the last couple of years. I love to read and in order for me to read, someone has to produce the books that I read. ..."I agree, which is why I buy some. But lack of space and budget constrain my buying.
JoLene wrote: "However, I will almost always buy a book at an independent bookstore because I want the small business to stay in business...."Me too! When I do buy books I have no problem spending a few extra bucks each and purchasing them from this cute little bookstore within walking distance of my house.
I have read more these last few months, so my donate and sell boxes are getting fuller. So there may be a path through the library soon!