In December 2018 I launched Tackling The TBR, a challenge to reduce the ever extending TBR pile and 2019 was pretty successful in that regard. In 2020 I intended to make a big effort to reduce my TBR by buying less, getting stuff read and getting rid of the things that I just don't want to read from my bookshelves and my ereaders Maurice and Myrnin! However the darn Coronavirus Pandemic has put the skids under all my plans and I had to suspend the challenge. I've now decided to bring it back in a bid to kickstart my TBR reduction as nothing else has been working.
The TBR total shown is the total number of books I own but have not read yet-wishlist books are NOT in my TBR! Sometimes there will be a difference between the books read and new total-sometimes I read a book not on the TBR so it counts for books read for the week but
BOOKS IN
-Books in refers to bought,
downloaded or gifted books being added to the TBR list.
BOOKS OUT
-Books read refers to books read that were ON the TBR and DNFed is obvious.
-Deleted from
the TBR are books I lost interest in reading, or sequels to DNFed books
I no longer want to read and have been removed without starting to read
them. These three categories added together are my books 'out'.
I'm posting my progress on the 7th, 14th, 21st and final day of the month as before, even if there is no progress to report and anyone else is welcome to join in. No rules, set up your posts how you want and when you want, just reduce the pile! And each week I'll add my new week to the end of the post so I can track how the whole month went.
August 1st-7th
TBR Start Total: 1493
BOOKS IN:
New Books In: 4
BOOKS OUT:
Books Read: 7
Books DNF:
Others Deleted From TBR: 1 Target Total: 1450
New Total: 1489
A decent week overall to start the month. Buying a few books did a bit of damage this month but the total is still going down which is the main thing. 1450 here I come!
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You are getting there!!
ReplyDeleteSlowly but always moving down is a good sign! Sadly a lot of books I really want are coming out which is going to play havoc with my total this month!
DeleteI saw that 4 books in and my first thought was "Uh oh". Glad to see it was more than balanced out :-D
ReplyDeleteThank you Paddington Bear! He certainly saved my bacon this week. I've bought ten more Paddington adventures but I'll have them read in one night so it won't do any damage!
DeleteReducing the TBR by 11 isn't bad at all!
ReplyDeleteI only reduced it by four this week sadly but at least the total is going down!
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