To think keep buying books when you haven’t read the ones you’ve got is odd

You are all my people.
(well not OP obviously)

I'm nowhere near a hundred but my pile keeps getting bigger.

If that makes me odd so be it. 🤘🏻

I buy kindle books when they’re on offer. After finishing a Masters degree over the lists few years plus working full time, my to be read list is rather long.

Yeah this is the part that tipped her over into crazy!
Especially since motherhood, my reading comes in waves. I have been through phases when I only read a little but when circumctances conspire, I'm right back at it!
Maybe some of us are scared of running out of reading material because that used to happen loads as children, when we couldn't just get more!

I mainly buy Kindle books now. Have dozens and dozens and dozens unread .... so far. I'm at the stage in my lifecycle when I am downsizing my belongings, but am clinging onto my favourite books 'in case I want to re-read them', foolish woman. If I lived to 110 I wouldn't have the time! I've got those IKEA Billy bookcases along my study wall, crammed. I have been donating my non fiction books to charity, it's my favourite authors I can't abandon - Marge Piercy, Michael Connolly, Iris Murdoch, Jo Nesbø, Louise Penny, etc etc etc. I'm a sucker for the 99p Kindle offers.

we've got probably over 1000 books. To keep it manageable, we give away books we've read and enjoyed. Mostly fiction. We have so many unread books that it's unlikely we will reread a novel rather than a new book. I'd rather pass on a book I've enjoyed to a friend.

Wandering around a used bookstore is a delight to behold. Each shelf is just bursting with potential; I feel like the man from Del Monte, touching and squeezing every orange until I find the ones that makes me say "Yes!"

We are soul sisters 😂

That would be even worse than moving interstate! At least then I could send them by road. It was the downsizing part that made it hard.

That was remarkably kind of that man to send your photo. Whereabouts in Australia are you? I’m back in Victoria.

This is also sacrilege!

Books, shoes, handbags, pasta and ... er, salads should all be kept in plentiful reserve [gavel]

I agree. Though I have to stick to buying books and graphic novels for the kids and ebooks for myself because I can't hold books anymore. Its really not the same reading ebooks.

You know how people buy wine and store it in a cellar for the right time? That's me with books (except they're on shelves where I can see and admire them).

Well, it may be odd. But, if it is, then I'm very odd, and so are several of my friends!

Imagine my pain when I emigrated! I could only take a few boxes of books; I still mourn the ones I had to part with. I gave so many to the charity shop that they sent me a huge box of chocolates! Although a few years later I got a Facebook message from someone who found a photo of my late father in one of the charity-shopped books, he had tracked me down all the way from Cork to Australia so he could post it back to me. I mostly only buy kindle books now (although cookbooks have to be hard copy) but my book buying habit is so bad I actually have two kindles, just in case. 😃

I have close to 2000 books but don't have the time to read any of them (2 nursery age kids and a very consuming job plus long commute that I work during).

I used to read a lot and hope to again at some point in the future. I've had to really reduce my book buying as I would just buy and buy with nowhere to put them. I buy the odd book but usually I put them in my basket online and leave them there. I don't often go in bookshops now as I know I won't be able to resist.

We're renovating our house and now have a library. It holds less than 1000 books, so there will still be books all over the house gathering dust. I bet it will be years until I have the time to sit in it and read without being pestered ☹️

But I want to read them all! To be fair, we've run out of space so have instigated a one in, one out policy on physical books, so thank goodness for Kindle.

Very normal. I have kindle unlimited and daily emails for bookbub etc. Got into a situation a couple of years ago where I had over 600 books on my kindle that I hadn't read and adding more books and free Amazon book samples daily. I ended up wiping it and starting again. Now making an effort to read and delete samples daily or buy the books.

YABU. There is nothing odd about it at all. Books can be read at any time, it doesn't matter if they sit there for years without being read.

I prefer a hardback. You need to buy them on release.

It's like a wine cellar.

We all have! 😁

I have found my tribe!

Yes, this too !

I do this all the time. It’s normal for book lovers I think.

I have a number of books on the go at same time. What I read depends on my mood.

Well... Obviously... You can't resist the pull of the books... And you hope one day you'll actually get the chance to read all the books you've got! ... Yes one day it will happen!

Are you my husband? I wasn’t sure I wanted to read this thread but so glad the answers are what they are!