'No More Buying Books Until I've Read the Ones I've Already Bought' Thread

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver

And WBQMS? Don’t think of it as failing. Just promise not to buy anything you don’t strictly need and try again…we all have a wobble sometimes….it just means you have to read a bit more! (What a pity!
I think I need to put a gap between purchases sufficient to clear my mind, promote wholeness, and financial prudence. As big as possible.
I buy books free or priced that i will enjoy unless otherwise.
I would never buy books because they are free but try to buy all books as cheap as possible including free.

InaPickle

scubaangel wrote: »

Just finished The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin. Still working through e-books on my Kindle at a decent rate although along with TID I have to report the in coming of a full set of the True Blood books and Dodger by Terry Pratchett.

That list includes two of my favourite writers...I think I love you, scubaangel! :rotfl:

ruby_eskimo

Have finished Books 1 and 2 of 1Q84 and now on to Book 3. It's heavy going but enjoyable at the same time.

black_cat

I am feeling very pleased with myself! I bought a Kindle with my birthday money and have downloaded about 50 free books - mostly classics.

I walked around Waterstone's yesterday with two half price books in my hand - but eventually walked out without them. When I got home I realised that I already had one of them in a different jacket design!

Have loads of unread books to get through, but haven't counted them yet. This is the year...

mummy2threeboys

HI..im up for this avid reader..thankfully also an avid recycler so usually once read it goes to a friend/mum who then recycles it again lol. I think i only have maybe 20 books at home, id like to have a "stocked bookshelf of classics" and im slowly repacing the junk chick lit novels with the classics, but i want to read those before replacing (and ony replacing if it comes in at the book jumble sales for 50p)

Just finished Call The Midwife, and Before i sleep by Sj watson , both excellent reads. Currently reading Diary of a 1920s Kitchen maid which is also rather worth a read.

Currently on the go i have some random chick lit which is a bit same old stuff really.

Ok just counted i have 27 fiction books really want to read and replace with books i want to keep..see you on the other side hopefully i can do them all this year!

kiss_me_now9

Oh no, I've found another book that I want! 'The Hangmans Daughter', it's 99p on Amazon... reading the sample now and it's very good!

scubaangel

InaPickle wrote: »

That list includes two of my favourite writers...I think I love you, scubaangel! :rotfl:

I find I have to ration myself....and I really really want to get through the assorted rubbish books on my Kindle so I can get to the Pratchetts which are hidden in the list somewhere although I already have them on my bookcase at my Dad's house (next time I visit I really need to start clearing that one out since there are literally hundreds of books on there and most I'll never read again :eek: )

LadyMorticia

I'd like to join this challenge please. I'm a bit of a bookaholic! :eek: I keep buying them but haven't read the ones I have! Will make a list soon.

Thrifty_Pixie

I'd like to join if I may...and I'm here to make you all feel a little bit better about yourselves :rotfl:

My personal library stats:
Complete Library - 1296 books
Reference books - 67
Read but keepers - 471
Unread - 757
In progress - 1

Yes folks, I have my work cut out for me

My main problem has been that I am a bookworm who frequents charity shops and therefore I rarely spend more than £1 per book. I also have a wishlist as long as my leg and can't pass up a cheap copy of a book that I'm after. Add to that a number of ingredients designed to eat into my reading time (a relationship break-up, house move #1, house move #2, marriage, house purchase and move #3...all in 4 years) and you can understand why things may have got outta hand!

But that's not all....

We only went and moved next to a guy who works for a printer, and who regularly gives us boxes of books to send to our troops abroad. Of course, part of the deal is that we can cherry-pick a few ourselves on the way through....argh!

Ok yes this is cheap (free!), but it does nothing for my bulging bookcases and impatient husband.

And so. This year I decided that I am (as much as possible) going to avoid buying any more books before I have read and removed some. So far this year I have added 24 books to my library in one way or another, and so...

:starmod::starmod::starmod::starmod:2013 GOALS:starmod::starmod::starmod::starmod:

1. To not buy another book until I have read 24 books and freed those I will not read again.

2. To read AT LEAST 50 books over the year.

:eek:

I will keep a count as I go in my signature.
Good luck & Peace,
TP
:coffee:

InaPickle

Welcome LadyMorticia, Thrifty Pixie and mummy2threeboys! :wave:

Pull up a pew one and all and get stuck into your latest read...

...speaking of which, I just finished Camp David by David Walliams, which was by turns interesting, funny and sad. I wasn't sure if I would like it as I wasn't sure there would be all that much behind the man, but it was a very good read, and he was searingly honest. It was interesting to see what his life was like before he was famous, and also to see that his relationship with his comedy partner, Matt Lucas, is not perfect either. He is really quite searingly honest.