Sunday, 21 April 2019

Tackling The TBR


In 2019 I'm making 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! I'll be doing this regular post to show my progress-what came into the house, what I read and DNFed and what was taken off the TBR.

The TBR total shown is the total number of books I own but have not read yet-wishlist books are NOT in my TBR! Re-reads have already been taken off the TBR when I first read them so don't count in reducing the pile but is just here as a note to help for end of year stats! The re-read total is the running total so far for the year, not what I've read each week.

BOOKS IN
-Books in refers to bought, downloaded or gifted THIS WEEK. 
-Books added are books I bought a while back but haven't yet added to my Goodreads TBR so they aren't newly bought, just newly added. Both of these categories together are my 'in' total. 

BOOKS OUT
-Books read and DNFed are 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'.

Sarah over at https://allthebookblognamesaretaken.blogspot.com/ is also trying to reduce her book pile and we hope to keep each other motivated! I'm posting my progress on the 7th, 14th, 21st and final day of the month and noting what is coming in and out of my house. Anyone else is welcome to join in. No rules, set up your your posts how you want and when you want just reduce the pile!

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April 1st-7th
TBR Start Total: 1108

BOOKS IN:
New Books In: 1
Old Books Added: 0

BOOKS OUT:
Books Read: 0
Books DNF: 0
Others Deleted From TBR: 0

Rereads: 2

New Total: 1109

Another week of getting nothing done but no real damage as I only added one book to the pile. 
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April 8th-14th
TBR Start Total: 1109

BOOKS IN:
New Books In: 3
Old Books Added: 0

BOOKS OUT:
Books Read: 1
Books DNF: 1
Others Deleted From TBR: 6

Rereads: 2

New Total: 1105

Did a book cull of my urban fantasy tbr shelf to get the numbers down! 
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April 15th-21st
TBR Start Total: 1105

BOOKS IN:
New Books In: 3
Old Books Added: 0

BOOKS OUT:
Books Read: 5
Books DNF: 0
Others Deleted From TBR: 1

Rereads: 2

New Total: 1103

12 comments:

  1. Wow 5 books this week? That's pretty good.

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    1. They were certainly shorter reads but every one counts!

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  2. Looks like you're doing pretty good!!

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  3. Wow, you own a lot of books! Good luck - it's hard to stay on top of for sure!

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    1. Those numbers are just the unread books! I have a lot more that I've already read!

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  4. Not bad still more out than in! Great work!

    Mary

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    1. If it stays like that most weeks I'll be pretty happy!

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  5. You're steadily making a difference to those numbers :-)

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    1. My total by the end of the month will look really good as I did lots of DNFing this week which will show on the next post!

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