Nici Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 59 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supergran71 Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 I have a mere 37 on my TBR pile, but there are loads on my list of want to reads which I havent acquired yet. I feel I must get my TBR pile way down first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kateleopald Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 I thought my pile was bad - at a tower spanning 13 high... that was until I read this thread! Although hasten to add these are ones that I have in the house.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heather Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 I have 57 TBR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carm Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 I've stopped counting:lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 Somehow my TBR pile has increased from 233 to 337 in about 8 months. I don't know why I say 'somehow', because I know exactly how it happened...I'm addicted to buying books And now I have to go out and buy 8 more books to catch up with Prospero Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 Kylie - you might be interested in an idea I've had, then. To shrink my TBR pile I've often thought I should implement a 'buy one book for every three of my own I read' rule. I can read as many library books as I please but they don't count towards my 'three before you buy any more' count. We could support each other as we try to kick the habit. Not that it's a bad thing, but if we buy faster than we can read, then we'll end up with houses full of books we haven't read, and that would mean they'd go to waste, practically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 It's a good idea, Prospero, and one that I've tried to implement, but obviously I'm not strong enough. I'll try harder from now on I promise. And I'll start looking at each book I buy as a 'reward' for reading three others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 Kylie, you do realise I meant, "Read three books BEFORE I buy any more," not, "I bought three today so that means I have to intend to read nine?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 What?? No way! Yes I realise and I shall buy myself one book after I've read at least three others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 Done. And if either of us breaks the vow we have to buy a book as a gift for the other. Of their choice. In hardback! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~V~ Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 Done. And if either of us breaks the vow we have to buy a book as a gift for the other. Of their choice. In hardback! May I join in please? That means the loser has to buy two books (Text books don't count though do they?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 Oh blimey, there will be no breaking the rules with you, you Gestapoesque BookNazi! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~V~ Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 Just to explain why I'm a worthy joiner-inner .. 381 books on my visible Mount TBR. That does include six library books but doesn't include some hidden boxes of books which is a mixture of read and unread and I have no chance of estimating how many are in there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~V~ Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 Oh blimey, there will be no breaking the rules with you, you Gestapoesque BookNazi! I shall consider that a compliment from you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 I have started a thread on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freewheeling Andy Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 My TBR pile is small. Very small. But that's partly because I've been very good in the shops recently, and partly because I read all the easy stuff when it comes in. The problem is that although there are probably only 7 or 8 books in the pile, those 7 or 8 books have been there for years. And even if I read nothing else it would probably be 6 or 9 months before the pile is reduced. Vineland by Thomas Pynchon, which I've just started, has been sitting there since 2000, I think. The last Pynchon I read took me 4 months. Also in the pile is Peter Ackroyd's London: A Biography, which is 1000 densely packed pages. I read the first 400 over the course of, again, 3 or 4 months, but then came to a juddering halt. Independent People by Laxness is sitting there, and that's long, and apparently fairly slow and bleak, although atmospheric, and I fear will take me until the end of the decade. There's The Travels Of Marco Polo, as in, in his words, which I really should read but will be terribly turgid. There's an Iain Banks, the only vague hint of lightness sitting there, I think. A book on the recording of Kind of Blue, which I have no real interest in reading at all but which my mum gave me. I'm sure there are a couple of other things, too, but I forget what. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 I've just whittled down Mount TBR from 135 to 94. I decided there were books on there that I was never going to read after all, due to having gone right off the idea of them or them just not appealing quiter so much any more. I figure if there ARE any I want to go back to, I can always get them from the library. I decided I had to ditch some as I was running out of space on my TBR shelves again and I couldn't get moved on my desk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 Join my gang! Pweeeeease! (Honestly, I'm such a threadpimper...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 I would, but I'm shortly going to be buying lots of books for Tadpole. Would that mean I had to give away loads of my books as a result? I don't want to risk it with the ones I have left! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 Hmm. I think it would be your own personal TBR pile; Tadpoles are exempt. (I make the rules up as I go along, you see). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 Hubby broke my bookscase at the weekend, so whilst I was moving everything, I had a sort out. Quite a few books have been given new homes, which leaves me with an official TBR pile of 54, with 2 others in progress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Welshman Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 You see the trouble is I suffer froma chronic relapsing condition called BAS (Book Acquisition Syndrome). Everytime I go past a bookshop it calls to me. Now as a result of coming to this site I have learned you can swap books too - just one problem. No-one, and I mean no-one is having any of mine, but I want all of your's!!!! So how many do I have on my to read list .... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcow Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 You see the trouble is I suffer froma chronic relapsing condition called BAS (Book Acquisition Syndrome). Everytime I go past a bookshop it calls to me. Now as a result of coming to this site I have learned you can swap books too - just one problem. No-one, and I mean no-one is having any of mine, but I want all of your's!!!! well you can't Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelly2008 Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 I think its 40 or just under Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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