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Do you buy more books than you have time to read?
I think I have about 1,000 or more. I've read quite a bit, but that still leaves the 1,000 or so unread. I have stopped for the meantime in buying more because I want to read so many of what I own, but I'm finding it hard to select the book I want to read next lol.
you have a book challenge too? Awesome!
Louise wrote: "Wooooow....*bows to queen Ellie* ;-)
Better than 700 pairs of shoes or 700 cigarettes - right?"
LOL: Bows to you for making me laugh.
And Sonya, I was thinking I feel like a book-aholic today-I'm actually afraid to post I finished The Pact today - 3 books in one day, I'm totally hungover. (But 2 of them were more than 1/2 finished already)
Yesterday I went to a few garage sales I came home with six books which cost me the grand sum of $3.00 all in great condition.
I thought I'd a lot of books to read... until I'm seeing posts of people with hundreds to read. But I have books sitting for ages waiting to be read. My worst is buy 2 for £X, buy 2 get 1 free... any of those sort of offers. I just can't say no!
OMG, am I happy to find this group! It's nice to know there are other book addicts out there. I have more than 100 books on my TBR shelves and I just got a Kindle, so guess what I've been doing? Buying more books! lol :) I also go to the library (2 of them, which also gives me access to libraries all over the U.S.) and when I travel I listen to audio books in the car. It's one thing in my life I'm never stopping!!
Sometimes I wonder if I should talk to a therapist about my book buying problem :( I have to fight the urge to go to Goodwill every day. Sometimes I can walk out with 2 or 3 bags of books, but lately I've been limiting myself. I can actually walk out with maybe just a couple of books! But then I might go to the library afterwards..sigh. I mostly just check out manga and graphic novels, though, because those are rare at Goodwill. I'm using GoodReads to help me catalog what I have which is going to take a long time because I don't have the bookshelves for all that I own. I easily have more than 1000. It's also helping me actually read what I own! Hooray for challenges!
But, of course! lolI never have to leave home to find a book to read, no matter what I'm in the mood for. (And most found used at rock bottom prices.)
Lynn, I have close to 5000 books. lol I've read maybe 800 of them I think.
Back before ereaders were all the rage I had mountains of books that I and everyone else knew I wouldn't be able to read in reasonable time. Of course they just piled on and on. Now that I save most of the books I want to read on my computer I don't have a closet full of books I don't have time for, but I do have a folder that has at least 500 books, and counting, saved to it. Thank goodness most ebook files are less than a mb or I wouldn't be able to save anything to my laptop.
Lynn wrote: "Lets just put it this way for me. with close to 2000 books and 700 e books, I will never get them all read. and yes I still buy. but my children/grandchildren will have a nice home library when I..."Lynn and I are kindred spirits.....I have to say I have a few more than Lynn but she contributes when she puts gems on swap. :)
I buy more books than I can read in the immediate time frame, yet at the same time I am buying books that be just as interesting today as they will be when I'm 50,60,70,80. So I think of it as my retirement entertainment :)
(A quick calculation yields 8.5 years worth of reading on the bookshelf, at a rate of 10 books per month)
I like to imagine I'll read all the books I have piled next to me as I write, but know I never will. But who cares. My romance with the printed page continues . . .
Thanks. I used to smoke and read. Now I just read and read. My only new addiction is: goodreads. And buying for my Kindle. (I'm trying just to get free books, at least until after my son's birthday on the 22nd :-/
ஐ Briansgirl "Book Sale Queen"ஐ wrote: "But, of course! lolI never have to leave home to find a book to read, no matter what I'm in the mood for. (And most found used at rock bottom prices.)
Lynn, I have close to 5000 books. lol I'v..."
Paul Auster's Moon Palace has some very gripping stuff, about inheriting a home library - that's my excuse too :-) (My husband likes to point out that I'm only 33 when I say that...)
Ellie wrote: "Thanks. I used to smoke and read. Now I just read and read. My only new addiction is: goodreads. And buying for my Kindle. (I'm trying just to get free books, at least until after my son's birthday..."Congrats one less addiction to attend to.
O.k. I feel A LOT better now that I have read this. I only have about a year worth of books to read.
Lynn wrote: "Oh gosh 5000 If I had not put a bunch on Book swap and taken quite a few to the library book store and gave some to friends I would have close to 4000.It is just so hard to part with my books but ..."I have 37 of those really old Reader's Digest Condensed Books as well from over the past decades. There is a particular thrift shop in KS that I get to a couple times a year that has old books at 10/$1 and I picked up only the Reader's Digest Condensed Books that had at least one novel in them that I wanted to read. I got really LUCKY once. Inside one, someone had used a crisp $20 (with a 1960s print date on it) as a bookmark and left it in the book. :)
I buy an enormous amount of books with the thought that "someday, I'll have time to read that." You know, someday never comes really.
This is a horrible addiction, but one vice I am not willing to take on. I keep buying, reading, staying up all night at times to keep up with what I buy, and always adding to the pile to read. It is this horrible feeling if I don't go to the store once a week and buy at least 3/4 new books, like my week is lost, or I failed somehow. I love the smell, the feel, the search of books. The written word, dangerous and provoking.
Lynn wrote: "Oh wow. What a bookmark. I like to read the novels for one thing alot of writers put alot of filler into a book to make it bigger which doesn't go into the condensed books.And you know what-- It..."I've found condensed books for novels I can't find otherwise, so although I'd prefer to read the full length book, I can't find them. Most of my Reader's Digest are old, which means so are the novels. I loved reading Spencer's Mountain by Earl Hamner. (They made a movie of it starring Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara.) The next condensed book I want to read is The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo by Irving Stone. (It too was made into a movie starring Charlton Heston and Rex Harrison.) Loved the movies so wanted to read the books they were based on.
I try to only buy a new book after I have read a couple of my tbr books :) doesn't always work out but it helps me keep up
This is the perfect group for me. I just bought like 5 more books today that I know it will be months before I read and I have at least 50 on the shelves I haven't gotten to yet either. But my boyfriend and I do trade out some of the old ones at the used book store for credit.....although it is not very many....Like other people have said, it is an addiction....but a healthy one. And I could never get an Kindle or something. We would go broke!
Definitely. I can never go to a book store or garage sale & get just one but but a bagful. That's on top of the 2 bookshelves I have of book still to read
Unfortunately yes. But I get time off at Christmas, Thanksgiving, and in the summer so I try to catch up then. Of course, I also will need something to do during retirement in 15 to 20 years or more so I figure I better stockpile now since my income will be so drasticly cut, if there at all, at that time. 8^D
can't have enough, greedy with books.
Deedee wrote: "can't have enough, greedy with books."My thoughts exactly!
I am far too greedy for books.
Most definitely! One can never have too many books!
OF COURSE!!!!!!I already pre-ordered, sad to say that some of them don't even come out till next year.
MAY RELEASES:
JUNE RELEASES:
JULY RELEASES:
AUGUST RELEASES:
DECEMBER RELEASES:
2012 RELEASES:
Me??.. Addicted??.... NEVER
I am an addict and I am sorry to say I have made my children addicts as well. Whe tehy were young we spend afternoons in B&N, aTlantic and the library. Each would walk out with a pile of books whidh we read in a matter of days. I always said my kids we book spoiled, it remains true and I have shelves and shelves of books that seem to muliple overnight. i would have it no other way
Heather wrote: "Most definitely! One can never have too many books!"I don't even understand what that could mean: Too many books? Too many for what? Happiness? Not likely.
I do I just have to have some books even though I haven't read six that I just baught. I'm obsessed.
Yay I just discovered that there's a flea market with lots of books next Sunday - I can't wait!
i have enough for 3 years and wish-list is chock full.
Ellie wrote: "Heather wrote: "Most definitely! One can never have too many books!"I don't even understand what that could mean: Too many books? Too many for what? Happiness? Not likely."
Ellie, "Too many books" is pretty objective isn't it? 10 might be too many for one person, while 1500 would be too many for someone else. But for those of us who love books, I think too many is a infinate number!
I'm aiming at owning 2000 books (just don't tell my husband :-)
My "to read" pile on my desk now has 13 books in it. I know that's not a lot of some of you, but I usually only have about 2 or 3 books in the to-read pile. :)
*looks at the bookcase with her 700+ to read pile and admires Kristin's restraint :-) *
God willing I will be reading when I pass the century mark and leave thousands of yet unread books in my vast literary estate!
I think that's an excellent plan Thom!
Thom.....you are a man with a plan.....and a good one. There probably isn't such a thing as too many books but if there is, I suffer from that malady. I probably have 100 in my TBR pile and am still buying and going to the library. I would be in a panic if I didn't have a shelf of books waiting to be read......what a wonderful addiction!!!
My to be read just past the 1,000 mark & that's not counting my subdivisions "tbr-next", "tbr" soon, + "tbr mystery," & "tbr bio-memoir". I mean it's depressing just to look at. But I actually don't put every book I hear about on my tbr list, even though it looks like it!
I've noticed that ever since I joined Goodreads (pretty recently), my to-read pile has been growing and I have been spending more money on books. I'm a little worried about that. :)
I wish I could tell you that gets better. But for me, it hasn't. It has gotten more enjoyable.And PaperBackSwap & Book Depository were 2 sites I could save money. And bookswapping here on GR.
I so have this problem. I didn't even dare walk into a bookstore this month. So, I stopped at Target instead!!
Kristin wrote: "I've noticed that ever since I joined Goodreads (pretty recently), my to-read pile has been growing and I have been spending more money on books. I'm a little worried about that. :)"Hmm the exact same thing is happening to me Kristin!
Louise wrote: "Kristin wrote: "I've noticed that ever since I joined Goodreads (pretty recently), my to-read pile has been growing and I have been spending more money on books. I'm a little worried about that. :)..."Likewise. Goodreads is a reading-addiction enabler.
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When I need to do a challenge I have no problem finding them in my library. I have a kindle too. Challenges are helping me read a lot of the TBR books...so I am enjoying my retirement library just as planned.