Do any of you just buy books to add them to your library?

Knowing you may not get to them for a while?

What do you do, do you only add it to your library if you read it?

Do you limit yourself when you see books and say you already have a waitlist at home?

Edit: typo

  • HipPriest@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, I used to be a sucker for doing this with real books and now because I don’t have the storage space I’m just a sucker for doing it with ebooks!

    I do only get books that I know I will actually want to read, and it may even take me a year or two to get to it/get around to finishing it but it’s not usually a waste. It sometimes certainly is. But I think the ratio of books I’ll read at some point/books I’ll die without opening it’s much better.

    Either way I definitely always have a massive backlog.

    I don’t see this as a negative though - I always have something to read!

    • Mickey@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Yup same here. I have an extensive ebook collection that I’ve been putting together for a while. It helps that I only get them while they’re on sale so it’s actually not too bad (I tell myself)! But yes there are a ton of them.

      I have a whole list of books waiting for price drops as well that get added to the pile. My general rule is that if it’s <$5 and it’s on the list I get it.