Just curi­ous to know how many books do most of you have in your TBR piles? At last count I had 783 books. That is not count­ing a) ebooks or b) graphic nov­els. Most of the books I plan to spot­light on TBR Day are books that are really, really old. Books I’ve hung onto for years. At the other end of the spec­trum — how many read­ers do not have a TBR pile?

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I use to always ratio­nal­ize why my TBR pile was so large was because if the bot­tom fell out and I was out of a job — my TBR pile could sus­tain me for quite a few years. [g] I would love to one day do a true count but that takes a lot of work. Most of my books are in a temp con­trolled stor­age room 10 min­utes away.

One of the biggest headaches for me hav­ing such a huge TBR stock­pile is when the mood hits me — I like to rearrange them. Or when I see a great review of an older book, I have to go look­ing for it and that means rear­rang­ing them again. Any­way, this will be the year of read­ing out of my TBR pile because while hav­ing hun­dreds of books around me is reas­sur­ing, it is also annoying.

I still buy new books but not as many as I did when I first started read­ing. Over the years my spend­ing has steadily decreased. Plus and I know many book­sellers don’t want to hear this either but since buy­ing and read­ing ebooks — my book­store vis­its have been decreased even fur­ther. I love to browse but I would never buy any­thing. I usu­ally end up buy­ing books for some­body else. Any­way, I think I’ve ram­bled enough. TBR Day starts this Wed. Can’t wait to see what good books read­ers found in their TBR piles.