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How do you stop yourself from buying more books when you know you already have unread books in your library?
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Feb 15, 2024 08:46AM
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check my bank account and bills, lol but sometimes that doesn't even help.
Hahaha! Don’t you know buying books and reading books are actually two separate hobbies?!?! 🤣🤣🤣
let me know if you figure it out lol
I have a small calendar that says book banning ban till July . Each day I put an x on the day I didn’t buy books ! So far so good ! The reason I say till July is because July is a huge used book sale in my town ! Plus I have a huge pile of books to read on my room . Hope I don’t fall off the wagon ! 🤣
Irregardless of how many unread I set a dollar amount based on how much money I can afford and when going to the bookstore I only carry that amount of cash and no checks, credit/debit cards. Can’t spend what I don’t have with me. On Amazon I buy a gift card at the beginning of the month and keep watch on the balance. Balance 0 I’m done book buying for the month. Other sites like smashword require a bit more will power since they don’t have gift cards and such but often if I know they are having a sale of books I really want I will buy a prepaid visa.As for not buying, I know it won’t happen. Before the internet and ebooks I seldom had an unread book unless it was brand new or a just taken out library book but … I would rather buy books than food.
it has always been my dream to have a library where I always have something new to read. so I buy the books I want (somewhat reasonably)!
what's been helping me is making a Goodreads shelf for my physical tbr, every time I read one of the books on it, I remove it. It feels like a rewarding system to me. however, I still struggle to stop myself from buying them completely
I sort out about 50 books per year and on an average buy 45 books used-like new from amazon.de and amazon.com.
I don't buy books, my mum buys me books lol, tho not often
Excellent question, hunting for answers here--! As it is, I have no self-restraint whatsoever. It's wonderful to have a Kindle so I no longer need even more multiple bookcases in every room--the downside is the immediate gratification of the one click download. I'm a fallen woman.
By just not having any money in the first place. :)
If you have completed reading a book, you can earn 1 Euro. This means that, for instance, if you want to buy a book that costs 10 Euros, you need to read 10 books to earn the money and then buy the book with it.
on the way to the barnes today, I went yesterday also. I love having lots to choose from. :)
I cant even if i uave hundred unfinished books i just buy them but whsn im out of money ... another story
I does add them to my tbr and jus take from n there but Tiktok bootok always have me adding more.
I always buy 3 books at a time, when I’m reading/starting on the last of the three I allow myself to buy 3 more. And also if the book is cheaper on Kindle then the paperback I download it on the kindle instead. But if the paperback is cheaper which it is more often then you would think I buy the paperback :) So I never have a huge TBR on hand.
Auggghhh this is my dilemma too. I keep going to the thrift stores, the free little libraries and book store I keep buying more and more books. I love them all and once I retire hopefully in 3 more years I will be free to READ. READ. READ.
I do this every few months and this method helps. I go through my bookshelves and see what I haven’t read and put them aside. I pick three or four of them I think I would like to try and put them in plain view in my room, usually in a high-traffic area, like my desk or bedside table. After a few days of seeing the pile of “new” books, I eventually pick one up. If I end up not liking it, I’ve got two more to choose from.
Very simple: request the books you are interested in at your local public library. They have ILL (Inter Library Loan) and can get your requested book from any other public library in your state. Very rarely they cannot get you a book.We no longer have any temptation here in Worcester, MA, because our only Barnes & Noble closed for good during the first pandemic summer, unfortunately there is no other bookstore in the city (and Worcester has 206.000 population!).
It was the same in Washington, D. C.. No independent bookstores, just a Barnes & Noble at Georgetown University. A very unfortunate trend.
Ashley wrote: "I do this every few months and this method helps. I go through my bookshelves and see what I haven’t read and put them aside. I pick three or four of them I think I would like to try and put them i..."I've donated hundreds of books to our local library over the years.
I set out last year and this year as a no-buy year. But I've already broken it.
I got an alert on Amazon recently that "quantity is low" for some books I've had my eye and decided to go ahead and purchase. Notably because I think people are hoarding historical reads nowadays. Like out of print, historical reads because others I did not purchase when I had the chance I can no longer find and when I do, the price is now hundreds of dollars.
So I'm still keeping my no-buy but went ahead on a few I know I probably could not get anymore. But that is it. No more. "I'm a disciplined person."
And for classics, I'm really prioritizing ones I already own and comparing to those available at my library and checking the inventory on the Project Gutenberg and Libro.fm website for out of print books that are no longer under copyright.
Because I do feel like for some reason that certain classics I really want to own a physical copy of, but I'm telling myself "no." I can't own everything, that's what a library is for and it's getting ridiculously expensive for books and I got to finish what I already own. This is what I'm telling myself.
Oh, and I forgot to mention, I pursue NetGalley as well. Very helpful to review as a reviewer and not purchase. Although a few I decide I want to own or gift, but times are tight right now and not only monetarily but time-wise, many good books out there, so many being published I can't keep up, wanting to be read and I can't buy them all.
I don't they still keep coming hahahaha
I remember that I don't want to move it. I have 250 books in my Pango bookstore, of books I love because I don't want to move them again!! lol
Self-control mostly. I also try to utilize my public library.
Lauren wrote: "I remember that I don't want to move it. I have 250 books in my Pango bookstore, of books I love because I don't want to move them again!! lol"I moved from Germany to the US some 22 years ago with 127 move boxes, most of them filled with my 1.500 books. I'm so glad I did, because I was worried that at some point no good novels would be published any longer (and unfortunately I was right).
And why is this this a problem? If it is a money problem, refuse to BUY (plenty are available for FREE). I also commend NOT subscribing to KU or other such services. Your local library can get you the ebook (usually) without the monthly fee. If it is a space problem (asks she with piles of books because she has no wall space left for bookshelves), ebooks are stored conveniently in the Cloud or can be requested from the local library.
it is easy - DO NOT BUY BOOKS, DO NOT HOARD BOOKSuse the library - pass along every book you are unlikely to read twice. Be merciless. Save the planet.
I've been trying a new thing this year where every time I finish a book on my physical TBR I give myself $5 spending for my next haul. It's a reward system and I'm loving it so far. It's motivating me to actually read the books on my shelf first instead of buying new ones and reading those while ignoring books that have been on my shelf for months.
Don't read e-books. It's destroying your eye sight in the long run.
budget budget budget save up for a big thing and then (at least for me) you won't spend as much and since you're saving up for a big thing you won't feel as though you can just spend 10-20$ on a new book
I just wait one year and THEN order the hardcover version for $ 7 good-like new at amazon.com. Why spend $28+?
