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What’re your strategies for reading books you already have instead of getting a bunch of new ones? 😭 I keep borrowing new books from the library or just straight up buying them and I have whole shelves full of books I own and haven’t read 😅
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Anonymous 8w

I’m already trying to avoid buying new for a bit (minus preorders) and when I go to the library I make myself use the outdoor drop off so I’m not tempted to browse when I’m done with a book. But sometimes books are on a huge sale, or sound really interesting, and I cave. Thinking about like a randomizer wheel app or something to make picking a book I have more “fun”? Idk, but it’s becoming a problem 😅

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Anonymous 8w

Make a list of roughly the amount of books you think you’ll read in a year/month/time period, but you can only put titles of books you already own on that list. If you don’t read them by the end of the time period, you have to sell/donate them. Keep making the list with different books on your shelves and throughout different time periods until all the books are either read or sold

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 8w

I feel this sm,what helped me was making a list and writing a review in my notes app for each book and I can’t add more new books to my tbr list unless there’s less than 5 books on it

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

Hmm I’m a big procrastinator and I feel like writing a review for every book would feel too much like homework to me, I can see myself not finishing books so I wouldn’t have to review it lol. But I really like the number limit and not adding more until ones gone. I’m currently reading 9 books 🫣 but I’m trying to get it down and keep it down to 5 or so. Maybe out of every 5, 4 then have to be books I already have and then itd be easier for me than cutting out new books all together. Thanks!

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 8w

And if you buy any new books, you have to add it to the current list. So if you’re trying to read six books in three months and buy four more in the first month, now you have to read those four plus the six you already had by the third month. This will make you really prioritize what you buy and what you read

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