Good luck with the TBR tackle, I know the feeling and it's surprisingly satisfying seeing your progress when the number starts to come down!

@bookinwithdebra

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Thanks. Yes, I'm looking forward to having a bit more space and the sense of achievement reading from my shelves.v

I have hundreds of unread books which I find both exciting and a little stressful. During the pandemic, I went on a book buying binge (online). I work full time,fortunately through the pandemic, so I didn't have extra time to read..I am excited for the stories that await me and I LOVE my library.

@bookinwithdebra

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Hello😀 I am so sorry for the delayed reply. I have only now returned to my channel after taking a break. I found myself with no books I wanted to read when we first locked down for months. But the search for recommendations brought me to booktube and down the booktube rabbit hole I went 😂 I am still a bit overwhelmed by all the books I want to read but I have been struggling with reading, which hasn't helped. I also worked full time, it was very stressful but grateful to still be employed. Outside of work, I spent hrs looking for books online that I might one day read. Libraries are just the best places. I hope you have been reading some great books.

This was interesting 😊 I think it’s like anything whatever number makes a person happy is what they should have. You have made me want to count my unread books. I honestly haven’t got the foggiest how many I have 😵‍💫I have a small immediate TBR which I keep separate but other books on my two other larger bookshelves which I am not fully aware as to how many are unread. 🤔 Gonna go count!! *I have 90 (which includes books I have stolen from Em which is a LOT 😂) Thank you for opening up about this with us 🥰📚❤️

@bookinwithdebra

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It's interesting just to find out how many books you have. Your right - it's however many make you happy. I think I just have a few too many because of not having enough space at the moment. You're so lucky to have a sister who you can steal books off 😂

I like having unread books too and have quite a bit. I too found BookTube in 2020. So grateful for the community. Good luck tackling the TBR. 😊💙

@bookinwithdebra

Жыл бұрын

I am so sorry for the delayed reply. I have only now returned to my channel after a much longer break than I expected. I hope life has been treating you well and you have been reading some great books. I am hoping to get back to catching up with some of the videos in my subscription feed soon. Now I am feeling a bit better and hopefully can get back to reading again. I missed the Booktube Community.

I love having my own little library 😊 I think everyone has different levels of how many unread books that they like to have at the moment I’m happy with mine. I only keep really special booke ❤️

@bookinwithdebra

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I would never want to not have a selection of books to read. If I had a bigger house I would have a whole library room 😂

Love the print/picture/quote behind you 😍 I wish it would be easier for me to pass the books on but if I like the books I read I just never let them go but then...I struggle with space 🙈

@bookinwithdebra

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Thank you. I realised when editing the quote was all about shelves overflowing with books and I was talking about having too many books 😂 I don't re-read books so I think that makes it easier to let go.

"That's not too bad, is it..." NONE of it is bad, Debra. You're all good in MY book. 🤗But I'm glad you're able to take stock and make intentional decisions. 💕

@bookinwithdebra

Жыл бұрын

Aw thank you so much Margaret. It's definitely a time for taking stock and making intentional decisions.

I fully welcome this bookish confessional! I love your facial expressions as you reveal some of the bigger numbers 😆 I could fully relate to them, so you are not alone! This video felt like such a nice chat with you 😊Rather than a particular figure, I personally gave myself a percentage goal. For instance, I am hoping that at least 33% (1/3) of my have read list in 2023 will be from my physical TBR. This allows some flexibility to read library books, friends' recommendations, or anticipated releases, etc. Good luck! Can't wait to watch your progress with this.

@bookinwithdebra

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I'm so glad I'm not alone 😂 It has been really useful to take stock. Another Booktube friend said they were doing 1/3 of books off their tbr too. I really like this idea because then I have 1/3 from library and 1/3 on audiobook. Which is a really good balance across all my books. We can support each other as the year goes on 😃

I have 120 unread book on my physical shelves. I have been tracking my balance monthly for a couple of years and I really enjoy it. I would never want a zero TBR! But I like keeping track of the overall number which sort of keeps me focused on what I truly want to be reading.

@bookinwithdebra

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I'm pleased I'm not the only one with a significant number of unread books too. Like you, I don't think I would ever want to have a zero tbr. I like having a collection of books to pick from.

Very interesting! I counted my unread books a few months ago and I had around 140 (about twice what I expected!). I'm quite happy to be surrounded by unread books as long as they do eventually get read. I have just completed a 25 book read what you own challenge. Today I'm going to the library to celebrate and I'm so excited 😁

@PageTurnersWithKatja

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Wow! Well done. 25s super 😍

@jenniferlovesbooks

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@@PageTurnersWithKatja thanks Katja!

@bookinwithdebra

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It's interesting that you have a lot more books than you expected. I didn't think I had as many as I do. Well done for doing your 25 book challenge. It's great that you now feel excited to go back to the library.

It was really interesting hearing about your acquisition process and projects, and how it has moved to a new phase of reading. Personally I enjoyed a modest target number of 'read what you own' , but everyone's different - as long as it isn't a burden! Celebrating what you read sounds ideal! I get some books for the look of them and their history which is a bit different I suppose. Poetry and non fiction get to stick around for revisits but novels are a shifting population.

@bookinwithdebra

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I tend to keep more non-fiction than anything else. I love that you are a collector of all those books. You have made some really great finds.

Love this video, Debra! I would set a number to aim at, but that’s my character and I like colouring in little boxes as I go! 😂 My goal is to read 120 books this year and I aim to read 80 of my own, so two thirds 🥰📚💜

@bookinwithdebra

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Nikki. I do like the idea of colouring in boxes as you go. I also really like the idea of a two thirds. As I want to keep borrowing from my library and listening to audiobooks outside of my physical tbr - I might go for 1/3 of my books off my tbr 🤔

Hah I’m definitely an options person and in a worse boat than you, I’m at ~250 excluding my mini classics 😅 I even was considering a bin under the bed before I snapped back into reality 😬 The counting was painful but eye opening 🙃 Good idea to sort them into categories so you can easily see where the extra books are! I have a feeling like my world lit is where the bloat is too. So yes, I’m planning a very similar goal! I still haven’t decided on a number but I was thinking about the goal of clearing an entire shelf. So less numbers and more about physical space.

@bookinwithdebra

Жыл бұрын

Yes - it's interesting to count all your books. The big box under the bed was my point of thinking I had more than I needed. I hope to always have lots of reading options but I also want to read the books I have. Sometimes you just stop seeing them. Some have been on my shelves too long. I like the idea of clearing a shelf rather than a specific number.

@KetevanReads

Жыл бұрын

@@bookinwithdebra Yes, you definitely stop seeing them! I try to reorganize them pretty regularly because even picking them up and moving them 3 spots over can inspire me to pick one up sometimes 🙃

@bookinwithdebra

Жыл бұрын

@@KetevanReads I agree. Taking time regularly to look at the be books on your shelves is a great way to inspire you to pick books you have not been paying attention to.

Everyone's library should be different, but I love that you believe as I do, that the library is unread. I also unhaul/donate books I've read. My taste in reading has become more hardcore, meaning, I'm less tolerant of reading books I'm not enjoying, so I dnf often. Last year I unhauled over 100 books. I really enjoy "shopping" my own shelves and see which books I'm still excited to read. If I'm not excited to read the book, it needs to leave. The year 2020 was the first year I'd read 100 books. I don't like having a deadline from a library, so I don't like getting all of my books from there. When I worked and had younger children I set a goal of one book a month. They were usually from the library. I couldn't afford to buy books. Now I set a goal of 52 books a year and however many books I read in a month is usually the amount I try to unhaul. If I dnf, then the unhaul is higher. I think a target goal is good as long as it isn't obsessed over.

I read a meme once that stated: "I started to go through my unread book pile. I'm on track to finish in 576 years!" 🤣🤣🤣

I just checked my very lengthy TBR list... I have 460 books listed on it LOL! Now I don't own all those 460 - some are books I want to read but don't own yet, and some of them have higher priorities and some are listed as books or series I want to read maybe sometime down the road. I think I might need to do a rearrangement, reordering, (and maybe deleting!!??) of this TBR

@bookinwithdebra

Жыл бұрын

My tbr is books I own or have in my possession (borrowed from library). Books I want to read but don't have, I class as wishlist books. My wishlist books to borrow from my library are totally off the scale 😂 I could probably just read books all day til I'm proper old and I wouldn't get through them 👵

Very interesting to hear the 'confessions' of a fellow book collector! Although I had to leave behind about half of my books when I moved from England to Florida, I still have hundreds in my still-expanding mini-library over here. I'd guess that I have somewhere close to 200 unread fiction books - and maybe the same number of unread non-fiction books - although lots of these are on subjects like cooking (lots of Delia's books) and chess, which are rarely, if ever, meant to be read through completely, but more often dipped into. The oldest unread book I have is Lynne Reid Banks' 'The L-Shaped Room' which I bought in 1973 and is still awaiting a first read some 49 years and 4,500 miles later! I just love having my own selection of books available at the drop of a hat and it doesn't bother me that a proportion of them will still be unread when The Big Man upstairs eventually closes my library door behind me for the very last time. I try to set myself an easy target - 2 books a month, one classic and one modern. This month it's Joseph's Conrad's 'Lord Jim' and Flaubert's 'Madame Bovary'. Last month it was George Eliot's 'Middlemarch', which has spilled over into this month (it's a very, very chunky book) and 'The Plague' by Albert Camus - which unsurprisingly had a lot of similarities with what we've all been experiencing since 2020. It wasn't a comfortable read but it was definitely a rewarding one, with a perhaps surprising amount of upbeat sections. A low target of two books gives me some slack to add another item, or sometimes two and I would personally recommend this rather than setting a too ambitious target which might ratchet up the pressure too much. Anyway, my keyboard's about to overheat so I'll finish by thanking you for the video and sending my usual kind regards, Brian.

@btwilks

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P.S. I've just noticed that I didn't leave a comment on your previous video, even though I watched it some time ago. I shall rectify that in the next day or so.

@bookinwithdebra

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I'm pleased to hear you also have a good supply of books in your home. Books help to make a home for me. I can't believe you still have a book from 1973, you've taken it to Florida and it's still unread 😂 I imagine The Plague is very interesting and that many human responses and behaviours were the same back then as they were in 2020. It's not a book I am inclined to read. I also actively avoid any pandemic reads or anything too dystopian. 2 books a month is a really good approach with room for more sometimes. All the best Brian. Take care

@bookinwithdebra

Жыл бұрын

@@btwilks no worries at all Brian

And here I was thinking my 25 unread books was getting to be a bit much 🤣I oftentimes use my library for audiobooks for my owned books to help me finish them faster.

@bookinwithdebra

Жыл бұрын

I like having a good selection of books in my house but I definitely have too many now. It's all Booktubes fault 😂 Too many books I want to read. My library is great for audiobooks.

Ooh, I want to hear your definition for classic/modern classic, Debra??

@bookinwithdebra

Жыл бұрын

I didn't really know so I went to the Internet Land for the answer 😂 After extensive research ( a handful of websites 😂) I just opted for published after WW1. Although I really feel that as time passes that timescale will change. I really just picked that so I could separate my books into classic and modern classic for 2 videos. It was not for any other reason really. Is after WW1 the timeframe you use for May of the Moderns?

@MargaretPinard

Жыл бұрын

@@bookinwithdebra for the Moderns readathon, I picked up where Victoria left off (1901) til end of WWII (1945), inclusive. And when people keep going til 1950, I don’t call them on it. Usually. 😂

@bookinwithdebra

Жыл бұрын

@@MargaretPinard oh yes, I remember now. That's a good way of identifying modern era.

Would you be interested in using buddy reads as a way to read your owned TBR? Do you have them listed somewhere to cross-reference, so we might offer ones in common? :)

@bookinwithdebra

Жыл бұрын

Yes I'm definitely interested in buddy reading some of my owned tbr 😃 I don't have a list of all my books. I could make a list of the books I have that I think will be good buddy reads.

@MargaretPinard

Жыл бұрын

@@bookinwithdebra yay!! Will keep my eyes peeled!

@bookinwithdebra

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@@MargaretPinard I will pull together some ideas for books soon and be in touch.

I have counted all my unread books for very similar reasons. I had 185 in all formats (physical, ebook & audio). I am being more conscious to read what I own, but not on a strict ban. I want to get mine down to under 150 over the year, but don’t have a specific plan on how I will do it. I also had a massive unhaul before counting, I didn’t count how many I unhauled, I just did not want to know 🫣🤣 We can do this 😁📚

@bookinwithdebra

Жыл бұрын

Oh yes you definitely have to do a big unhaul before you count all your books 😂 I don't use an e-reader so don't have any e-books. I think counting all your books does make you more conscious of the books you have. The longer they sit on my shelves the easier it is to ignore them and reach for something new. Good Luck Ange - you've got this 💪📚 When we've tackled our tbr, we can rewards ourselves by buying another book 😂😂