I'm banning myself from the library (temporarily)
This week I need to take my handy little iPod app and scan all the barcodes for the books that have arrived in my house since...uh...January *cringes* so I can get my LibraryThing catalogue updated. I'm afraid to do it because it will bring home the true horror of how out of control Mount TBR is but it has to be done.
Mount TBR is currently at 152 books without the new-since-January books. Gulp.
I'm putting myself on a temporary library ban. No more books from the library until I've read at least three (I'm not setting the goal post too high) dead tree books from Mount TBR. None. Nada. Nope.
And if I accidentally read Naomi Novik's new book (out this week!) it doesn't count as one of my three because it's not from that huge stack. Although reading it would prevent it being added to the huge stack...
I'm not going to prevent myself reading Kindle books or fanfic or even doing rereads from the shelves. That way leads to madness, I've learned. If it takes two months to read three books from Mount TBR then so be it, clearly there were other things I wanted to read more urgently.
But no more library books. They're the major reason so many dead tree books keep arriving and not getting read - that feeling I just need to finish this library book before I read the next thing and then another one leaps into my hands when I go to return my books. It's a vicious, vicious circle.
*puts on resolve face*
No more library books. Mount TBR needs trimming.
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Mount TBR is currently at 152 books without the new-since-January books. Gulp.
I'm putting myself on a temporary library ban. No more books from the library until I've read at least three (I'm not setting the goal post too high) dead tree books from Mount TBR. None. Nada. Nope.
And if I accidentally read Naomi Novik's new book (out this week!) it doesn't count as one of my three because it's not from that huge stack. Although reading it would prevent it being added to the huge stack...
I'm not going to prevent myself reading Kindle books or fanfic or even doing rereads from the shelves. That way leads to madness, I've learned. If it takes two months to read three books from Mount TBR then so be it, clearly there were other things I wanted to read more urgently.
But no more library books. They're the major reason so many dead tree books keep arriving and not getting read - that feeling I just need to finish this library book before I read the next thing and then another one leaps into my hands when I go to return my books. It's a vicious, vicious circle.
*puts on resolve face*
No more library books. Mount TBR needs trimming.
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