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alyaza [they/she] ( alyaza@beehaw.org ) MA to LiteratureEnglish · 3 years ago

how long is your To Read list, Beehaw?

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how long is your To Read list, Beehaw?

alyaza [they/she] ( alyaza@beehaw.org ) MA to LiteratureEnglish · 3 years ago
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  • Kamirose ( Kamirose@beehaw.org ) 
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    According to bookwyrm, there are 161 books in my TBR. I need to go through and prune it though, there’s probably a bunch I added that I’m not really interested in anymore.

    • courts ( courts@feddit.de ) 
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      Same here, 208 for me on my bookwyrm To Read list, with some of them only there because I haven’t deleted them yet. Shouldn’t be more than 10 I would not want to read any longer though I guess.

  • EntropicalVacation ( EntropicalVacation@midwest.social ) 
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    894

  • kCNrnHcEkvqdtLCQoQbK ( kCNrnHcEkvqdtLCQoQbK@sopuli.xyz ) 
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    Currently, it’s around 75 books. It used to be over 200, but I realized there are only certain books that I will actually read, so I narrowed it down.

    A majority of these books have already been released, and there are some that I’m just waiting to be released (and of course there are some that I want to read but don’t know when they are going to come out).

  • Deebster ( Deebster@beehaw.org ) 
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    My list currently stands at 582, although some of those are the first/next in a series, so there’s probably another 100 you could add on there.

    When I go to add a book to my TR list and find it already there, I add it to my shortlist, which is another list I generally ignore.

    • icanmakesound ( icanmakesound@beehaw.org ) 
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      Do you use anything in specific to track your to-read list?

      • Deebster ( Deebster@beehaw.org ) 
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        I’m currently using Goodreads (“Want to Read” is a shelf, “shortlist” is a tag) but I’m definitely open to alternatives* - I was a user before Amazon bought it and nowadays it’s so slow (and the Android app is even slower) that it’s unpleasant to use. I’m not a fan of the redesign either; the functionality I actually use it for is now further away.

        * I started making one myself, but I already have too many side projects. Bookwyrm has been mentioned here a few times and looks interesting. I’d looked at other potential replacements before and they all seemed to suffer from not having a good enough database of books.

  • GreyShuck ( GreyShuck@beehaw.org ) 
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    Quite a long while ago mine went from a few to dozens to hundreds to… basically ALL the interesting books.

    I don’t have a list as such now. I simply pick up whatever book interests me most at that moment when a slot becomes available.

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    • ianw ( ianw@beehaw.org ) 
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      If it helps, I read the ID Software book a few years ago and it was great.

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  • alyaza [they/she] ( alyaza@beehaw.org ) OP
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    i’m under no pretenses i’ll ever get through mine. goodreads clocks it at 443, and that’s not counting the 10 books i’m on and off reading right now in varying capacities.

  • wispikat ( wispi@beehaw.org ) 
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    Somewhere around ~150. much like my music listening wishlist, I’ve come to terms with the fact that I will never, ever get through all of it

  • kessleragain ( kessleragain@beehaw.org ) 
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    10 books. I had hundreds in my TBR list on GoodReads and when I switched to StoryGraph a few months ago I wanted a fresh start.

  • icanmakesound ( icanmakesound@beehaw.org ) 
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    I find if I plan too far ahead I start to get distracted with what I’m currently reading. If I see an interesting book, I might make a note of it, but I think maybe 10 books ahead, let myself catch up, and then pick some new ones.

    I do have to stop myself from weekly half price trips though.

  • Demonstrable_Legume ( Demonstrable_Legume@beehaw.org ) 
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    I just passed 200 recently. I don’t mind a long list because either i have books i really want to read already on hold at a library or I will use a script to randomly pick one.

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  • DJDarren ( DJDarren@beehaw.org ) 
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    Usually about three books long. Not because I read really quickly, but because I only remember the last three books in my pile.

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    I try not to overexpand my list because until I have the time to tackle all of it, I might lose interest in the selected topics. We grow over the years and our interests change with us. This is why I limit my list to a year’s worth of books.

    • v_krishna ( v_krishna@lemmy.ml ) 
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      Same here but only a month or two. Sometimes 6 months go by and I realize I have only been reading a single author, sometimes it’s all over the place. But I don’t think I plan hundreds of books ahead of time at all, based on this thread I’m maybe odd man out.

  • OhSnapKracklePopped ( OhSnapKracklePopped@beehaw.org ) 
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    I’ll let you know when I find the end of it. I really like collecting books.

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