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

[Saymyname777]

Like having over 100 and keep buying how are you going to get through them

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.

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.

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 ☹️

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. 😃

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

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).

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.

This is also sacrilege!

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

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.

We are soul sisters 😂

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'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.

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.

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 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.

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

If that makes me odd so be it. 🤘🏻

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

@Saymyname777

Thanks for so entertainely so judgemental about people like myself,

I see it also akin like a form of home decour or home ornaments of libarey of books with eye catching artisically designed covers reaveling tanitilising glimpse into a different parellell world ect,

Pure escapism is like magic

I do this lol

🤣@Saymyname777

I've got so many books on my night stand and can get rather annoyed at not being able to have the energy to read them, or the time. It's my plan to make time shortly once I've got kiddies in a better routine. Easter holidays are full on

DP said to me yesterday evening shall we have a car boot sale, waved at my bookcases, and said for this lot?

I think that's grounds for separation!

I've got a pile on my bedside cabinet -- I'm working my way through. Not counting all the holds on Libby and 200 samples downloaded on my Kindle.--

I'm a bit weird with my reading.

I was reading in the garden a few years ago. It was a lovely sunny day. I was trying to read a Rebus book, set in a cold wet Edinburgh.

My brain could not cope with the cold wet and the lovely sunshine.

I had to swap to something else.

Now I have a kindle and download things I like the look of but might not read for a while.

Such a waste of money! Try visiting the local library ;-)

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 certainly am. The idea of not having something to read scares me, so I always make sure I have plenty of books waiting to be read. This served me well when lockdown happened and the libraries closed - I was prepared and had a big pile of books I got out of the library as soon as they started talking about closing them, plus all the books that I've bought over the years but not read yet. Did not run out of reading material.