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

Oh that's me you've described. Can't stop won't stop.

Nope, normal behaviour

Guess I'm another oddball so. 🤣🤣

OP, there is something very wrong with you. You don't wait to run out of book before you get more. What do you read in the meantime??

I buy books when I see books that appeal to me. I will read it when I'm in the mood for that book.

Sometimes, I will read part of a book and find it's not really my thing, and put it down again. Then it joins the stack of the Did Not Finish, which goes to charity shops at intervals.

YABU I buy loads of books as they will all get read eventually. Might get the odd one as a gift too...or a kindle 99p daily deal...love a secondhand bookshop mooch! DH and I thought we'd buy less books once we got Kindles years ago. Spoiler alert we probably buy about the same.

YABVU I've read nearly 100 so far this year so if I didn't buy anymore, what would I read? 🤔 (Completely disregard the 1000 on the bookshelves) 🤭

Not trying to bring the thread down - but I have cancer that will likely kill me in next few years
I still buy books - love them! My children (one son in particular) will read them.

I bet the people who say that listen to music more than once. Reading more than once is just the same. Really great books need to be read every year, I find.

You have to keep buying books. What if one day you run out of books?

The other weird thing I've heard is why keep books when you've read them. Like you expect me to get rid of actual books I've read and enjoyed? 🙄

100 books would only last me a year so there’s nothing unusual about that. I have about 200 unread physical books and another 100 on my Kindle which I’ll get round to eventually.

I would say it would be odder to not have a constant supply of books on tap to read.

OMG OP this isn't odd at all. My favourite aisle in the charity shop is the bookshelf!

Don't buy them. I use a library app called Libby. You can add multiple library subscriptions and borrow audiobooks for free. It's amazing and I use it all the time now

The thing is, when you go somewhere new and unexpectedly come across an independent bookshop, it’s almost criminal not to buy something, isn’t it?

As a person who reads a lot of books, owns a lot of books, I still buy a lot of books… because I’m interested in them!
It’s like painting. You need to be in the mood (for a specific type of book). I don’t just read one book. I’ll be dipping into gardening books, art books, while reading fiction and probably some science based journalism. At the same time.

YABU. The End.

100 books is really hardly any at all. Books are like breathing - if you don’t keep doing it, you’ll die, I actually only have a few hundred physical books these days, because I have a very tiny house and a kindle with about 2500 on it. Oh, there’s another 1500 or so in my office at work, as well.

I spend a good few days looking through mine to decide on my next read - these things are never easy

When lockdown came I felt so grateful for my stash of unread books and I thought oooh now I’m at home I’ll read through my library . Instead I just bought more books than ever before and the stash grew considerably. Book buying is just a pleasure you can’t measure.

Because I delude myself I’ll get round to reading them all

I hate the thought of not having books around me, and have thousands. I have read most of them but some are being hoarded as a little treat in case I am short of a book one evening. If I have a decent TBR pile then all is well with the world.

You know all those documentaries about preppers, OP? Well I'm like that, only with books rather than canned vegetables.

I've sorted one of my book cases out today. I have 2 boxes of books that I'm definitely getting rid of. Definitely not read all of them. Just 2 more book cases to go and room for more books 😁.

I tend to buy a lot at once and work through them, then buy another ten or so. If I spot something I think I'll like I buy it however many I've got to get through! I donate any I've read but don't want to keep on the shelf (we have a book library in the village bus shelter). Looking now, I think I've got around 12 not read on the shelf. Books are my joy and I also collect rare/vintage.

I ran out of books on a trip abroad once. It was in the days before kindles and phones. I wasn’t in a country with easy access to English language reading material. It was driving me crazy.

when I got to the airport I found a tiny shelf with a few English language novels and bought one of everything for my long flight home. Most of it not my normal reading preference, but formulaic romance novels and cheesy murder mysteries were very welcome at that point.

got an hour into a trip once and realized dd forgot her kindle. We went back to get it.

a ready supply of books is a necessity.

I genuinely must have 300-500 unread books…not even sure how many but it’s 20 wide shelves’ worth. I’ll get round to all of them at some point!