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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Baja Arizona
Device: nook, Aluratek Libre
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Recap of 2021, Goals for 2022
Ending the year with 179 owned but unread ebooks and paperbooks. I began with 184, deleted 1 that was gosh-awful, and acquired 15 newbies. Of these owned books I read 19. That’s 15 new books and 19 read.
Overall, I read 87 books of which 39 were borrowed, 19 were owned, 12 were audiobooks either borrowed or owned, and 17 were advance reading copies. My goal for the next year is to only buy books I plan to read right away. Even if they’re not on sale. I think I’ll spend less that way than by buying bargains that I just end up hoarding. Also, I’m setting a LibraryThing ROOT (Read Our Own Tomes) goal of 18 books including audio. 01/07 - 179 found 1 ebook 01/31 - 179 02/28 - 178 03/22 - 177 deleted 1 ebook 03/31 - 176 04/30 - 177 05/31 - 180 06/30 - 179 07/31 - 181 08/31 - 181 09/30 - 181 10/31 - 181 11/30 - 182 12/31 - 183 Last edited by wandalynn; 12-31-2022 at 07:29 PM. |
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#5702 |
Connoisseur
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Karma: 2332848
Join Date: May 2021
Device: Kobo Libra Colour, Bigme B751C, Kindle Voyage
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Technically, the month is not over, but I'm not going to get any further in my reading goals. I read 10 books this month, with 8 books from TBR and 2 from KU. I bought 2 books, so I start the year with a TBR of 232.
My plan for 2022 is to really focus on getting through those paid for books that I've let pile up. Before August of this year, I was reading a lot from Kindle Unlimited and got stuck in a rut of always reading the same type of book. I've started using the pick a random book feature of calibre, which helps change things up. |
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#5703 |
o saeclum infacetum
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Karma: 224182110
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: New England
Device: H2O, Aura One, PW5
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For the coming year, I’m going to try to restrict myself to purchasing wishlist books only; i.e., no purchases where the price creates the want. I won’t be petty about it; if I run across a book for cheap that’s exactly my thing I’ll go for it, but I’ll try to be like a horse with blinders on, so to speak. If I don’t see it, I can’t buy it.
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#5704 |
The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Norfolk, England
Device: Kindle Voyage
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I have bought one book already! But it is the monthly Dick Francis. In the UK the publisher seems to be offering one random Dick Francis novel at £0.99 each month. I suppoe I could have waited until nearer the end of the month to make my figures look better, but I don't want to miss it.
I'm certainly not going out and looking for bargains. But if uk.ereaderiq.com tells me that one of the books on my wishlist has reached the desired price (mostly £1.00), I'll probably get it. |
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Karma: 5575734
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: UK
Device: kobo Aura H20 2nd Ed
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#5706 |
Wizard
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: UK
Device: Kindle, Kobo Touch, Nook SimpleTouch
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I'm very happy with my 2021. I bought just 27 books, and have started 22 of them (finished 19). Only 2 were in paper, both non-fiction hardbacks, and one was also bundled with a PDF, which is what I'm actually reading (also both in the started-but-not-finished group - one is a very long listicle type coffee-table book that I'll be inching through for ages, and the other I just haven't wanted to read so much because it is in paper).
I read 72 books, well over twice as much. Including freebies and loans, my unread count is still slightly up (79 total books in), but not by much, and I've decided I don't care about freebies. They aren't doing any harm. If I want to read them, I can; if I don't, I won't. I guess I'm saying I think I might be cured. Or, to put it another way, I have accumulated so many unread books already that it's increasingly ridiculous to buy more, especially if I'm not going to read them immediately. |
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#5707 |
Bibliophagist
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Vancouver
Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos
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Just checking and for December, 2021, I purchased 73 books. 11 of them were purchased with Kobo gift cards that I received for Christmas so I'm ended the year with 6 unread books. One of the series that I bought was definitely worth the price, one of them was not bad and the third was good until near the end of the last book where the author pulled a deux ex machina to get out the corner she'd painted the main characters into.
Oh, ghod, for however long I have a TBR pile. |
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Karma: 63194629
Join Date: Oct 2018
Location: Canada
Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD
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Also, I have a friend who DNF'd a book and when he went to look up the ending it turned out that in a military sci-fi book, Dracula suddenly shows up and kills all the aliens. |
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Diligent dilettante
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Join Date: Sep 2019
Location: in my mind
Device: Kobo Sage; Kobo Libra H2O
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Karma Kameleon
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Device: iPad Mini, iPhone X, Kindle Fire Tab HD 8, Walmart Onn
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: South Georgia
Device: Surface Pro 6 / Galaxy Tab A 8"
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#5712 |
o saeclum infacetum
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: New England
Device: H2O, Aura One, PW5
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Kind of a bad news, good news status update.
On Sunday, only the second day of the year! ![]() So the slate has been wiped clean and I hope I’ve both learned a lesson (again!) and that success will breed success. Because I really don’t need more ebooks. (On a related but OT note: I also went through my holds at OverDrive and canceled most of them - the ones of less than extremely high interest. If it’s a book I really want to read, lowering my TBR rather than reading a borrowed book becomes a foolish goal. However, the problem with library books and one I’ve had my entire life is that the nature of due dates pushes the books I want to read most down the reading queue behind marginal books that need to be returned.) |
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Professor of Law
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
Device: Kobo Elipsa, Kobo Libra H20, Kobo Aura One, KoboMini
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For the New Year, I made sure that my court bag included my Kobo Mini. I usually work at a public library if court ends early due to travel logistics. Being IN the library usually led to getting library books that I didn't really need. Having my mini with me led me to start actually reading a book I own yesterday rather than checking one out. It means I have different books going on different readers, but its not really an different than having a book going on the reader and a library book on the beside table. |
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o saeclum infacetum
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: New England
Device: H2O, Aura One, PW5
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ETA: Yes, the library issue is that it’s a hidden cost. The books appeal because they’re free, leading to lower criteria - except that reading time is not free. Last edited by issybird; 01-04-2022 at 10:38 AM. |
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#5715 |
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Cleveland, OH
Device: Voyage, Oasis, Kobo Glo HD,iPad Pro, Sony 350 and T2
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I remember that book. I'm a big Weber fan, too. I HATED that ending. I'm not sure if I've ever been more disappointed in an ending than that one. If it would have been a paperback I would have thrown it across the room and then set it on fire, probably.
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