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If I read all the books I own and never buy another book (like that's going to happen), it will take me about 13 years to read them all. I really need to stop buying books!
I can't help it. Buying books is an obsession for me. If I find them on sale for really cheap, I HAVE to buy them. The good in that is I rarely buy anything new (good for me, of course, not so good for the author). My husband actually asked me the other day if I had a problem!
Same here. Total obsession. If I've had a bad week, a trip to the UBS is my treat to myself. :P
I'm getting a $100 Visa gift card soon for getting a phone & internet bundle and I'm heading over to a UBS I've NEVER been to before. It's also next door to a Ben & Jerry's outlet, so I'll have old smut in one hand while snarfing down Phish Food or Stephen Colbert's Americone Dream with the other. The card just has to GET HERE. *taps foot impatiently*
I'm getting a $100 Visa gift card soon for getting a phone & internet bundle and I'm heading over to a UBS I've NEVER been to before. It's also next door to a Ben & Jerry's outlet, so I'll have old smut in one hand while snarfing down Phish Food or Stephen Colbert's Americone Dream with the other. The card just has to GET HERE. *taps foot impatiently*
Tonya wrote: "I'm sooo jealous!!!"
It's the next best thing to winning the lottery. :D
It's the next best thing to winning the lottery. :D
my new addiction is lots of books off ebay...bad juju!! lol!assuming I never bought anything again (yeah, like that is going to happen) and read about 10 books month (my norm) about 4 years
Delicious Dee the book slut wrote: "my new addiction is lots of books off ebay"
Um, that's how my TBR increased exponentially. *blushes*
Um, that's how my TBR increased exponentially. *blushes*
I would have to read 5.5 books a week to finish them in a year. I really only read about 3 books a week so it would probably take me about 1 1/2 years.Though some how my tbr never seems to get reduced, too many good recs. keep coming in. lol
lol...so did mine...150 books in the last 2 weeks...not including the 60 or so, i bought for my kindle off amazon, or the 10 audiobooks from audible...Karla wrote: "Delicious Dee the book slut wrote: "my new addiction is lots of books off ebay"
Um, that's how my TBR increased exponentially. *blushes*"
Noelle wrote: "I really only read about 3 books a week"
*brings out a tiny little violin* ;-)
*brings out a tiny little violin* ;-)
Delicious Dee the book slut wrote: "lol...so did mine...150 books in the last 2 weeks"
Yup, sounds about right. :D
Yup, sounds about right. :D
Karla wrote: "Noelle wrote: "I really only read about 3 books a week"*brings out a tiny little violin* ;-)"
LMAO =)
And e-bay has been my down fall also. My husband thinks that I needed a 12 step program for e-bay because when he asked "Don't you think you have enough books??" I said "If I don't bid on those lots of books someone else will get them! *gasp*" lol
Oh my, I think we might need to start a sub-group, Ebay Book Lot Obsessives Anonymous. I recognize that "No, mine! You can't have!" mindset. :D
I don't even like Harlequins all that much, but there are 2 lots of 106 and 119 books that could go for a song. It's the price per book that's so appealing, I'm sure.
That, and boredom.
I don't even like Harlequins all that much, but there are 2 lots of 106 and 119 books that could go for a song. It's the price per book that's so appealing, I'm sure.
That, and boredom.
lol...i learnt to not log onto ebay at 3am when I was stuck at work with nothing to do...lol!I got like 40lbs of books a few months back for $120 (including shipping) - ended up being 90 books and the illustious Stormfire was one of them, so that so made up for the cost
Delicious Dee the book slut wrote: "lol...i learnt to not log onto ebay at 3am when I was stuck at work with nothing to do...lol!I got like 40lbs of books a few months back for $120 (including shipping) - ended up being 90 books ..."
Wow, what a lucky buy! Every time I see that 40lbs of books type of thing I'm afraid to bid because I don't know what books they're going to send me. Maybe I should just think of it as an adventure or a lucky grab bag sort of thing.
i was suprised...i only got 2 doubles out of the entire bag and 5 that I had read (mostly Julia Quin); the 2 doubles were a Nora Roberts (McGregor's Serena and Caine) and Julie Garwood (For the Roses)they were all romance...basically they just load up the box until it hits the weight you ordered (10lb increments)
My fingers are iching to go to e-bay!!!! I think I need to wait until I have some more room to put them, but it does sound kinda exciting =)
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I usually average 2 books a week (I hardly watch TV, I read at night instead). I think I have 96 books on my list right now, so I'd finish it under a year! But a good bit of them aren't available at the library or used book store, and my budget doesn't allow for me to buy them all. Sigh!
Jeanine ♥ Cheshire Catt ♠ wrote: "KimKirt wrote: "I usually average 2 books a week (I hardly watch TV, I read at night instead). I think I have 96 books on my list right now, so I'd finish it under a year! But a good bit of them ar..."Yes, you brought to mind a good book booth at a local flea market. I had forgotten all about it, I'll have to get back there now and check it out (had young son with me last time and he is not very patient when mommy is looking at books).
My TBR is around 900. If I keep up with a reading average of 4 books a week, make those 4 only TBR books and don't acquire anymore-I can get my TBR read in just over 4 yrs. I'm in no hurry to get through them or worried that they're taking over. I don't keep anything after I've read them. So I only have about 1,000 books here with about 100 being books up for trade at other sites. I also have no problem getting rid of a book I haven't read yet because I decided I don't like the author or I just can't get into the book.
I'll be moving to much smaller digs though and will have to get my TBR under better control.
I have just bought 4 bags of TBR not including the ones that i all ready have.On average i ready 4 books a month so it should take me 3 years to finish them all.
Since I joined this group, my TBR pile has gotten bigger. I've been hitting thrift stores to find shoes for my daughter to wear as Mae Peterson in "Bye Bye Birdie" and I take a few moments to peruse the books.I recently found:
Savage Desire by Rosemary Rogers
Love's Daring Dream by Patricia Matthews
Amber Flame by Hannah Howell
Love's Defiant Prisoner by Patricia Phillips
Riccarla
12 years at 10 books a month... that puts me at 40 by the time I finish!
Tonya wrote: "If I read all the books I own and never buy another book (like that's going to happen), it will take me about 13 years to read them all. I really need to stop buying books!"Ok, I DID (of course) buy more books so now it will take me about 15 years to read them all!
I have over 800 books at home. If I average 100 books a year (which is my current average), it'll take me 8 years. But if we're talking about my to-read shelf here at GoodReads? Over 15 years. If I miraculously avoid adding anything new to my shelf (yeah, that'll be the day), I'll be 44 when I make it through all those books. *headdesk*
Jeanine ♥ Cheshire Catt ♠ wrote: "HOLY SHEET! I only average 50 - this is taking a serious toll on my reading speed self esteem!"Don't feel bad at all! One of my friends reads over 300 books per year. I could never wrap my head around how she does it. O_o
I read 60 books last year and that nifty stats widget thingy says that I've read that much already, so I'm improving!
I'll slog through close to a hundred or so books a year, more or less. I do like the fact that GR is helping me keep track of what I have, and have not read -- it does help to avoid rereading something. Or remembering just why I didn't like something. At the rate I'm going, I figure that I have about six good years of reading ahead of me...
*sigh*
So that'll hold me until I'm 60.