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Feb 09, 2009 05:46PM
Yeah, I see what you mean. And, I'd need my list of books that are on my "To-Read" list. I always forget what's on my "To-Read" list and end up buying a book I already read or a book that's not on my list. Ha ha.
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I need to do that as well with not buying books that are on my to-read list.I've recently made a rule that I can't buy book that I haven't heard of before I go to the bookstore.
Melissa wrote: "o.0 There's a thread for this?! That's so weird! I was just thinking about how I'm probably the only teenager whose parents actually tell them that they CAN'T buy anymore books (unless it's with ..."Hehe My mother's not stupid - she only gave me an allowance (as opposed to pocket money) from age 15 but I've always been responsable for buying my own books.
I take my to read list with me every where. I no longer allow myself to buy anything that isn't already on the list. Now if the list weren't so darn long that would be much more helpful!
£1,000 would cover about 1/4 of my read list - how depressing!
I've ordered the other 2 books from the nigtrunner series last week. while I was reading the second I just thought what the heck let me just buy the other two and get done whit it.oh weel yesterday i had book 4 on the mail, the 3 didnt arrive yet. I hate when that happens. it better be there today!
Muahahahaha...you are all weak. Join me on the dark side! (I'm not even trying to pretend I am being good anymore. I'm just about to order a book, even. Right now. Like, the page is open. Just...one...click...away...)
Ichaerus wrote: "Muahahahaha...you are all weak. Join me on the dark side! (I'm not even trying to pretend I am being good anymore. I'm just about to order a book, even. Right now. Like, the page is open. Jus..."that was what I did last year - a lot.
"I'm having a crappy day- let me go order a book" :P
Yep Bnoir, I'm still clean. *sniff sniff*
So not book buying has suddenly become a virtuous thing?Interesting.
Becky, I'm still not buying any books.
Fi is making this very hard for me though.
I have bought 20 books this year so far...not to mention all the ones I've gotten through bookmooch.OMG! I am crazy.
*blush*lol. Its all the freaking SERIES that I'm addicted to.
Hahhaa.Well, try getting them at the library. That always helps for me. I bought City of Bones, read it, and then read City of Ashes from the library.
Yeeeeeah...but when I like a series I just have to own them.I know...I have a problem. It happens. I don't usually pay full price at least...I go to used bookstores.
hmm...I'll watch it during my lunch hour :-)
The thrift store near my house sells books for $0.50 paperbacks, and between $1 and $2 for hardbacks, so I buy a lot of books, but mostly used. I only buy new ones if I just have to have it now and can't find it there. Like ICTC. Or Outlander.
I think I need rehab too! I am starting to pile my books around my bookshelves and take off things I can move to school to make room... I just need to stop buying books. I put my paperbackswap on hold and I think I am ready to try... I know that sounds week, but there is sooo much temptation out there.
I'm doing good so far, I've read: The Tales of Beedle the Bard
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Solaris
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Heart-Shaped Box: A Novel
The Runaway Jury
Where the Heart Is
The Andromeda Strain
The Reader
American Gods
The King of Torts
And I'm currently reading Beloved.
I really need to stop buying more books. My bank account cannot handle me spending $25 or more on books each month. Especially since I'm buying more than I read. Since December, I've bought close to 30 books and I know I haven't read that many...
I'm feeling kinda naughty. I've just come from work at the library with Twilight in my paws. I didn't pay for it and I'll have to give it back but it was bought entirely at my behest!
Even worse when I mentioned my book diet to the Head Librarian she said that if there was anything I really wanted she could buy it for the library so I could borrow it.
I'm with you Lori, I really have to stop buying books. One I have no more room for them, 2. My husband said I can't buy anymore till I read the ones already on my shelves (there are a lot) and 3. we are suppose to be saving money not me spending money. LOLOk, No more buying books the rest of this year ...lol
"I promise to abstain from purchasing new books until my to-be-read pile is looking more respectable and I must read the books I already own!" I resolved to do this before Christmas, but then I scored Amazon gift certificates. Yay! But! That leaves me with THREE more books left that I'm hot to read. (I ordered 7 in all, but 4 have been read already. Wee!)
The thing about having shelves of unread books, is that no matter what mood I am in, I'm sure to have something on hand that will satisfy. My fiction shelf runs the whole gamut, really: fantasy, sci-fi, adventure, juvenile fiction, mystery, thriller, comedy, romance, chaste romance, erotica. Whatever I want, I have!
I've been bouncing back and forth between sci-fi and fantasy for a couple of months now and last night I decided to cleanse my pallet with a murder mystery. Haha! Strange application of this phrase, I know - but hey if you read, then you know precisely what I mean!
My point is that I have all of these books for a reason and I absolutely resolve to follow through with my original intent and read the dang things.
(I'm amazed at you folks who've counted your unread books! Good for you!)
I went to the library to get love in time of cholera-its not buying. so a point for me.And I have to tell you guys abouy something really really stupid I did.
(I'm beating my had against the wall over it)
I ordered book 2 and 4 of the nigthrunner series instead of ordering book 3 and 4. now I have 2 copies of book 2. and have to wait another week to get book 3.
Dumb!dumb!dumb!
anyway I already picked my new ikea bookshelfs just need to go get them.
bookshelf space always makes me feel better about my tbr amount
Fiona wrote: "*tweets innocently*"Tweety fly away and read!!!!!
Melissa wrote: "o.0 There's a thread for this?! That's so weird! I was just thinking about how I'm probably the only teenager whose parents actually tell them that they CAN'T buy anymore books (unless it's with ..."How great melissa!!!! I whish there were more teenagers when I was one that adored reading and didn't think I was weird because I would spend so much of my free time reading and not hearing when my parents would call me!
Melissa wrote: ":) Thanks. Ha ha. I could spend a grand on books in no time. Just drop me off at a bookstore and give me about two hours."
me too but not in two hours. If I do really my best I alreayd need at least an hour to choose only one book....But having all that money to spend on them in one time......Maybe come back after noon....
Melissa wrote: "Yeah, I see what you mean. And, I'd need my list of books that are on my "To-Read" list. I always forget what's on my "To-Read" list and end up buying a book I already read or a book that's not o..."Melissa, I also always seem to come home with books not on my lists. I am always happy and go and check my lists to put a line through the ones I bought and I never seem to fins any!:-)
Fiona wrote: "This is my list of books I have read from my pile. Oh a measly 5!1. An Air That Kills - Andrew Taylor
2. Shadow of the Wall - Christa Laird
3. One Day in September - Simon Reeve
4. Turnstone - G..."
Gooooooooo
Ooh... I just passed my first real test! (I mean, besides the one in which someone glued "A Thousand Splendid Suns" to my hand.) My boyfriend and his friend decided that they had to make a "pit-stop" in Barnes and Noble and made me go too, since I was the one driving.
We were in there for nearly an hour!! I picked up some books, and wandered around, and got a coffee and wandered some more, but managed to not buy ANYTHING! (Except the coffee).
Yay! I feel... empowered. But that's temporary, I'm sure. ;)
Nope. I didn't. I picked them up, flipped through, and then put them back and wandered some more. I did pick up and SERIOUSLY consider ICTC though. It was the only copy in the store, and I almost talked myself into it because "what if I can't find it later??".
Bad little shoulder-demon!
I really have to be done this time. I would have bounced checks if I had not noticed that, after my bills get paid, I would not have had enough to cover my pending transactions (ie, books from amazon). Becky, What are the parameters of your no book buying?
I'm not buying any new books until the remaining 98 books on
this list
are read or until the end of the year, whichever comes first. Actually, I only have to read 84 books, as 14 of the books on the list are incomplete series books. So once I am down to those, I will allow myself to buy new books. I'm not going to the library, getting books through BookMooch or PaperbackSwap, no gift books, no trades, no library freebie giveaways, nothing.
And I'm being strict, much to Fiona's dismay! ;)
ok my second to last purchase came today from Amazon. I bought four books...I want to go to Borders tomorrow and buy one more than I am not buying anymore till I have read A LOT of them on my TBR shelf. I am having surgery at the end of the month and will be recovering for most of March so I am hoping to get a lot of reading done then. Wish me luck! :~)
Becky wrote: "Ooh... I just passed my first real test! (I mean, besides the one in which someone glued "A Thousand Splendid Suns" to my hand.) My boyfriend and his friend decided that they had to make a "pit-s..."
You have been soooo strong! Were they surprised?
Becky, I think I'm going to have to start being strict with myself too. I have a whole lot more than 98 or 84 books to read, so I wouldn't be buying anything for a while. I may have to say that once I read 75 books I own that I've never read before, then I can buy or check something out from the library. I really want to give myself the caveat that if Borders comes out with a really amazing coupon (such as 40% off) then I can get something. But I know that on diets if you allow a caveat, you don't do as well...
Lisa, good luck, both with the surgery and your book-ban!Jeane, actually, I don't think that Thomas noticed that I didn't buy anything. He was giving me a hard time about it on the way in, but when we left, he wasn't paying me any attention. I could have bought a thousand books and he probably wouldn't have noticed.
Lori, I think 75 is a good goal. My goal actually started out as a 75-80% goal, but I figured that since I have an amount that could reasonably be read in a year (if I apply myself) that I should just go ahead and do the whole thing.
You're right though about allowing little rewards though. I'd never thought about that. Maybe at the 6 month mark I'll let myself buy a book... I'm not sure.
It's only been 44 days, 13 hours, 17 minutes and 50 seconds (*sigh*) since the "official" start of my challenge, so I'm not even sure if I can make it 3 months! Maybe I should do a quarterly reward?
But I don't know. I really want to see if I can go the whole year without getting another book.
A quarterly reward does sound good but make sure not to undo what you reached. You can like f.e. buy a book you really want now but not like 3-5 or more!
Becky, I'm thinking that if I can make it to August, I'll allow myself to buy a new book to celebrate. It will celebrate back to school and it will be a reward for working all summer.
I know Jeane, that's the problem! I don't know if I would be able to narrow it down to just one book. So its better if I just stick to my goal and buy none. Lori, That would be about 6 months, I say go for it! :)
Oooh, this thread is following the constant battle I am having with myself. I have been to Broders three times this week with gift cards and had to promise myself I wouldn't buy more than the gift card would cover. Then I had to stop at Half-Price yesterday, but I managed to escape with all the money I went in with. My goal was to get through my 2read pile over the summer and really I just succeeded in making it taller and I am still adding to it!! I need to set some boundaries for myself.
TIP FOR ALL BOOKAHOLICS:Okay, go see Confessions of a Shopaholic, it made me swear off book buying until I have five hundred dollars in Chapters giftcards.
Or it just might give you the urge to buy the book...if so... don't see it.
I made a shelf of the books that I'm going to read before I buy any new books. There are close to 80 books on the list, which is way more than I read in a year, but it needs to be done. Because what's the point of having books if you're never going to read them?
Liz wrote: "Do they have an AA for bookaholics? ;o)"Yep, this thread! ;)
Good for you Fiona! Be strong!
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