Comments on: No More Book-Buy Bemoaning

By: girldetective

girldetective — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:32:53 +0000

Jodi, I don’t see re-reading as a problem, more of a lost art. I have Lizzie Skurnick’s book, Shelf Discovery, on my request queue at the library and it’s about the joys of re-reading. When are you and your books going to be reunited? And did you have a lot of unread ones there?

By: Jodi

Jodi — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:29:53 +0000

I think that I have, maybe, 5-7 unread new books currently. That’s because the majority of my books, hundreds of them, are down in storage in the states. I haven’t seen them in two and a half years. I miss them. I’m sure there are more unread books down there.

You know what my problem is, I re-read a lot of books. Instead of reading the new ones, I pick up old favorites and read them again and again.

By: girldetective

girldetective — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:27:46 +0000

Oh, that sounds like a lovely book, and I”m already tempted to go to amazon uk since I just finished girl with dragon tattoo and want to order the sequels pronto. Must. Resist. Impulse. To Buy Books.

By: SFP

SFP — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:53:55 +0000

I’ve been telling myself that I’m going to use Susan Hill’s Howards End is on the Landing as inspiration to keep my book buying under control next year (you’d think my husband being out of work would be inspiration enough), but I’m still waiting to see if the Book Depository will actually send it to me–they cancelled my first order over the weekend. I will definitely be on board with a challenge to clear the shelves.

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:56:05 +0000

I’m totally up for the clear the shelves challenge. The other sounds like it has lots of maths. I don’t like maths.

By: Steph

Steph — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:35:15 +0000

I have been trying to employ the strategy of having to read and bring back at least 10 books before I return to the used bookstore, but I still keep accruing more books because I inevitably wind up buying more than 10 on my trip. I suppose I could say that I can only buy as many books as the trade-in credit I get, but that doesn’t seem to be working either.

I think I am going to try to have 50% of my reading be books I already own for next year. And however many books I read this year, I will say that 50% of that number is the total number of books I can purchase next year. I won’t limit library borrowing since that doesn’t cost me money and really can curtail my spending somewhat by sating my impulse to acquire new books (which tends to strike once per month).