I Am a Bad Girl

[jacey]

Despite my strategic book reserve already extending to three shelves (i.e. more than I can read in a year) I have just ordered six books from amazon.co.uk. Bad Jacey, no biscuit!

Comments

[merriehaskell.livejournal.com]

I am totally using the phrase "strategic book reserve" the next time my husband gets on my case about how many unread books I have.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

I like the term strategic book reserve. :)

I am, however, trying to whittle mine down somewhat. I only read about 1 book every 2 weeks, so I have several year's worth in hand.

Also from now on I intend buying ebooks whenever possible. I am a total convert to reading on my iPod.

Just three SHELVES?

[isfdb.livejournal.com]

I think I have three book-CASES of unread stuff. But of course, I do "serious bibliographical work", so that's my "research library". (Off to buy 6 more books now....)

Re: Just three SHELVES?

[seawasp]

Well, judging by your handle, you would have more reason even than James Nicoll to accumulate a large amount of reading material. :)

Re: Just three SHELVES?

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

I do have a lot more unread stuff, but I have given up on them for the time being and shelved them in with my main run of fiction. There's only so much I can contemplate reading at any one time. It would take years to go through the whole backlog.

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

Three shelves? You piker. I have three bookcases.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it's not just me. Now I don't feel so bad about all the ones bought over the years that I've shelved in with my main run of fiction. I have a load of unread Charles de Lint, Guy Gavriel Kay, Andre Norton (which I collect) - all of which I wuld like to read but never quite seem to find the time. Then there's half a shelf of David Brin (which I was given) and lots of individual ones. I no longer buy whole trilogies because they look good, I buy the first one and then get the others if I like it as well as I hope I'm going to. (The number of trilogies with parts 2 and 3 unread have made me wary.) I suspect if I separated read from unread I would end up scaring myself by how many virgin books I own. If I didn't buy another book - ever - I would never be short of reading material.

Of course the likelihood of me never buying another book again is... hugely slim at best.

The strategic book reserve largely consists of books bought within the past couple of years, since I started booklogging.

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

You sound exactly like me. These days, though, I read fewer from my book pile and more on the computer, by virtue of reading friends' books before they're published. (I'd read them after they were published, too, but this way I get them sooner.) I suspect that's contributing to your growing reserve, too.