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I have done something similar Jenny. I have been a member since 2008. I used to cull my TBR on a regular basis in an effort to keep it below 100 books. In the past, I stayed on top of this, but my TBR is over 300 now! Ridiculous.One thing I take into account is the rating. If it is below a 3.75, I reconsider whether I want to tackle it or not. I also take into account my friends' ratings or whether they have read the book or not. That goes a long way in deciding if a book is worth the time.
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Oh I do like this strategy, actually numbers based.
Great idea! I've been here 11 years and I've currently got 1726 books on my TBR - and that's after a cull of about 250 last year. I've always thought of my TBR as a bookstore of potential reads, not literally a list to be read, so a high number isn't a problem, but my bookstore has become more of a warehouse so I need to do more cleaning. I like these criteria!
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I’m like you Nadine, my list is potential reads but so many of them aren’t anymore. 250 last year is pretty great!
Jenny (Reading Envy) wrote: "Hi all! I started this in another group but thought I could share it here too. I've been an active member of Goodreads since 2009. This means my TBR in Goodreads is ten years old! I don't know if..."
I like this idea. I've been on Goodreads since 2009, too. My TBR list is only 10% of yours, though, and I've been trying to whittle it down by reading but my list continues go grow. I recently thought about going through my TBR list after watching the Maniacal book tuber from Japan's first "Massaging My TBR" episode from about three weeks ago.
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It’s in the air! I’m sure Marie Kondo hasn’t hurt.
Jenny (Reading Envy) wrote: "Hi all! I started this in another group but thought I could share it here too. I've been an active member of Goodreads since 2009. This means my TBR in Goodreads is ten years old! I don't know if..."
Jenny (Reading Envy) wrote: "Hi all! I started this in another group but thought I could share it here too.
I've been an active member of Goodreads since 2009. This means my TBR in Goodreads is ten years old! I don't know if..."
I like this idea! It never occurred to me to declutter my to be read list:)
I applaud all your ambitiousness.I just don't know if I can bring myself to join in, stop judging me.
I love this idea! My list is only (ha, only!) 300 or so deep, but since I only read about 20-30 books a year, that's quite a bit for me. So I'm working through some of it by creating a TBR Jar where I can pull the names of the TBR books I already own once per month. I have to read that book or discard it when I pull the name. My first goal is to read or declutter the ones I already own and want to read, then I can move on to the TBR list on Goodreads, if that makes sense!
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This is a great way to do it!
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I just don't know if I can bring myself to join in, stop judging me."
Always optional, my friend. :)
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These are some of my favorite episodes. I would love the extra speed dating episodes.
Elizabeth☮ wrote: "These are some of my favorite episodes. I would love the extra speed dating episodes."Me too, I love the speed dating episodes :)
Jenny (Reading Envy) wrote: "So followup question, to the few who will see this thread. This is ending up being a 10 book a month speed date, really. Should I record a bonus episode every two months or so, or should I just kee..."A vote for you to share.
Cristina wrote: "I love this idea! My list is only (ha, only!) 300 or so deep, but since I only read about 20-30 books a year, that's quite a bit for me. So I'm working through some of it by creating a TBR Jar wher..."Oh, I like the TBR jar idea.
Jenny (Reading Envy) wrote: "So followup question, to the few who will see this thread. This is ending up being a 10 book a month speed date, really. Should I record a bonus episode every two months or so, or should I just kee..."Yes share
I always enjoy your speed dating episodes Jenny, so I vote for more...please and thank you for all the time and effort you put into Reading Envy!
My tbr on goodreads is only 218 books and it doesn’t really bother me, it’s a hypothetical list rather than an actual to do list. And a lot of them have been added because of book podcasts just to help me remember. And yes you should share, more reading envy podcasts can only be a good thing though I really don’t know how you find the time for everything.
It's too bad there's not a thing (function) in Goodreads that allows you to randomly select a title from your TBR, like TBR bingo or something.
That's an idea to share with the goodreads team Casey!
One evil thought......if you go wild and have multi-thousand titles on your TBR, the odds are better that a book that pops up will already be on your pile and you can claim it as TBR reduction ;)
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There is this random number generator where you could put in however many books are on your TBR and use the associated number!
https://bookriot.com/2019/04/30/weed-...Thought you would all enjoy this recent Book Riot article about weeding your TBR.
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Thought you would all enjoy this recent Book Riot article about weeding your TBR."
Good advice in that one!
This is a great podcast all about libraries and how they weed books.https://99percentinvisible.org/episod...
I have decided I just want to start over with an empty to-read shelf. I have been an active goodreads member for over 10 years, my shelf has over 1000 books on it. It is completely non-functional in any way for me.Many (most?) are books I either 1) know I want to read, they're on the 1001 books list!, 2) are kid books and now my kids are teens, 3) are things I no longer have any interest in, or 4) I have no idea why they are there (this could be past me, this could be giveaways adding them). I may lose a few that I really want to read, but I am willing to take this risk ;)
Does anyone know how to clear that shelf? I have tried, but get a window saying you cannot delete books from an exclusive shelf. But aren't all books on an exclusive shelf? I can't figure out how to do a mass move to another shelf, I can't make the to-read shelf non-exclusive (I think? It is a default shelf), I cant figure out how to do a mass move to a non-exclusive shelf (but woudn't they still be on an exclusive shelf?). It is painfully slow to delete them one at a time.
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Starting over sounds grand. When I’m deleting from that list I do look at it in list form and just go one by one deleting. What a pain. I guess another strategy is to start a brand new TBR shelf and just ignore the other one! I double checked and those standard three shelves don’t let you uncheck the box that says exclusive. Dang!
When you are looking at a shelf in list view, click on Batch Edit next to the search bar. Thenyou can tick all the books and use the ‘remove from all shelves’ option to delete them.
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I've been an active member of Goodreads since 2009. This means my TBR in Goodreads is ten years old! I don't know if you are the same reader now that you were ten years ago, but I most certainly am not.
I've set myself a pretty simple goal, and so far it's gone well so I thought I'd share it. Every month, I'm looking at ten books on my Goodreads TBR, starting back in January 2009. I am deciding if I still want to read each book by reading the Kindle preview or reading the first 20-50 pages or even just reading the description. If it no longer stands out to me (in other words, if it no longer brings me joy), I am deleting it from my TBR. If it's a book I own, I'm getting rid of the book.
I'm not necessarily reading all the books I decide to keep, although I did end up reading one so far because it was short and it suited my mood.
By the end of the year, I'll only have sorted through 120 books on my 3000+ list, but it still feels like progress. Maybe I can speed up at some point and just commit to sorting through all books added in 2009. I don't know what the number is, so I'll have to check.
How can you explode your TBR?