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ironed_orchid ([personal profile] ironed_orchid) wrote in [community profile] bitesizedreading2015-05-13 07:21 pm
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Wednesday Intended Reading Post

Or: what DIDN'T you read this week?

We all have things we mean to read, but never quite find the time, whether it's a bunch of unopened tabs, or an ever growing pile of books by the bed.

What's on your to-be-read list this week?
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[personal profile] alexseanchai 2015-05-13 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
my entire collection

I joke. Somewhat.
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[personal profile] ironed_orchid 2015-05-14 10:32 am (UTC)(link)
Somewhat.

A year or three ago I went trough my bookshelves and sort of half pulled out all the books I had never read. The idea was to read as many as I could before I spent anymore money on books...

I got through maybe 5 or 6 of them before a new book in a series I was reading came out, and then I started buying new (and secondhand) books again.
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[personal profile] fred_mouse 2015-05-19 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
oh, I hear you on that. I went through a phase where a book I had read was put on the shelf the 'right' way, and a book I hadn't was put in spine facing up, to try and get me to read the collection. Eventually, I hated the way it looked, and tidied it so that all the ones I had read were on one shelf, and all the ones I hadn't were on another. Also drove me batty...

These days, I have 4298 books in librarything, 2260 of which are tagged 'unread (fred)'. Even allowing for my dodgy updating, not good...

I actually have a 20 year plan for getting rid of the books that I'm never going to read. I kid you not.
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[personal profile] weaverbird 2015-05-14 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Hee! Yep, I'm with you there.

Interesting collection! Spotted any number of things I want to read (like I need more to-be-reads). Also, now I want to get back to cataloging mine - I stalled out ages ago, when it came to manually entering the miles of pre-ISBN stuff.

[personal profile] thamesynne 2015-05-15 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
no joke for me, at all. i have piles of books and piles of time in which to read them... but on the very few occasions i do actually motivate myself to pick one up, i then have to battle handcramp (from keeping it open) and the rapid onset of sleepiness (from, i dunno, something), so that while i feel like i've achieved something when i get to the end of one, i'm not that keen to repeat the experience. which wouldn't be so bad if i didn't know myself to have been capable, at my best, of chugging through three books (well, about 750 pages) a day.
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[personal profile] alexseanchai 2015-05-15 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)

I read the seventh Harry Potter in about two hours the night it came out, having blasted through the previous six in the two days prior to the big release party--which were work days iirc. I have read...fifteen books in 2015? (do I have a tag something like 'book log' or 'reading challenge log'? that should go to an up-to-date post.) That's not even one a week.

So yeah. I feel you.

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[personal profile] alexseanchai 2015-05-16 03:56 am (UTC)(link)

I stand corrected: Twenty books so far this year. Exactly one a week. Still not many.

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