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According to bookwyrm, there are 161 books in my TBR. I need to go through and prune it though, there’s probably a bunch I added that I’m not really interested in anymore.
Same here, 208 for me on my bookwyrm To Read list, with some of them only there because I haven’t deleted them yet. Shouldn’t be more than 10 I would not want to read any longer though I guess.
Quite a long while ago mine went from a few to dozens to hundreds to… basically ALL the interesting books.
I don’t have a list as such now. I simply pick up whatever book interests me most at that moment when a slot becomes available.
Currently, it’s around 75 books. It used to be over 200, but I realized there are only certain books that I will actually read, so I narrowed it down.
A majority of these books have already been released, and there are some that I’m just waiting to be released (and of course there are some that I want to read but don’t know when they are going to come out).
My list currently stands at 582, although some of those are the first/next in a series, so there’s probably another 100 you could add on there.
When I go to add a book to my TR list and find it already there, I add it to my shortlist, which is another list I generally ignore.
Do you use anything in specific to track your to-read list?
I’m currently using Goodreads (“Want to Read” is a shelf, “shortlist” is a tag) but I’m definitely open to alternatives* - I was a user before Amazon bought it and nowadays it’s so slow (and the Android app is even slower) that it’s unpleasant to use. I’m not a fan of the redesign either; the functionality I actually use it for is now further away.
* I started making one myself, but I already have too many side projects. Bookwyrm has been mentioned here a few times and looks interesting. I’d looked at other potential replacements before and they all seemed to suffer from not having a good enough database of books.
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I find if I plan too far ahead I start to get distracted with what I’m currently reading. If I see an interesting book, I might make a note of it, but I think maybe 10 books ahead, let myself catch up, and then pick some new ones.
I do have to stop myself from weekly half price trips though.
i’m under no pretenses i’ll ever get through mine. goodreads clocks it at 443, and that’s not counting the 10 books i’m on and off reading right now in varying capacities.
10 books. I had hundreds in my TBR list on GoodReads and when I switched to StoryGraph a few months ago I wanted a fresh start.
Too long…
Want to read some Malatesta, a book about ID Software, and This is How You Lose the Time War, but my nature makes this difficult. I always think like “Wow I want to read” and then will continue sitting on some game or website instead lol
If it helps, I read the ID Software book a few years ago and it was great.
I’ve heard! ID fascinates me on the whole so I imagine it’s great, thanks for the motivation!
Somewhere around ~150. much like my music listening wishlist, I’ve come to terms with the fact that I will never, ever get through all of it
I try not to overexpand my list because until I have the time to tackle all of it, I might lose interest in the selected topics. We grow over the years and our interests change with us. This is why I limit my list to a year’s worth of books.
Same here but only a month or two. Sometimes 6 months go by and I realize I have only been reading a single author, sometimes it’s all over the place. But I don’t think I plan hundreds of books ahead of time at all, based on this thread I’m maybe odd man out.
I’ll let you know when I find the end of it. I really like collecting books.
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Usually about three books long. Not because I read really quickly, but because I only remember the last three books in my pile.
I just passed 200 recently. I don’t mind a long list because either i have books i really want to read already on hold at a library or I will use a script to randomly pick one.
