Getting an eBook reader has made me so much worse for this lol. I ended up trawling through a bunch of public domain book sites so now I'm permanently carrying around a ~700 book unread backlog.

[–] earlgrey0@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pair that with my Library’s Libby and I am completely overwhelmed.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Oh yeah I wasn't even thinking about that too!

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Damn, you are not reading books at a rate never before possible.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not only that, you should see my Steam backlog and 4TB external drive full of downloaded movies!

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 2 points 2 months ago

Extended editions ! Director's cuts I'll watch someday ! Indie games I'll play anytime now ! and all this loot that'll surely come in handy during the endgame !

[–] Mickey@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It really doesn’t help that over the last few years I’ve been getting all sorts of ebooks on sale thinking I’ll get to them eventually, they’re on sale so it’s not so bad, it’s fine… hundreds of books later.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah I've been doing that too! Stupid Kobo store lol

[–] TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

What helped me was creating a smaller handful of books categorized as my current reads/immediate future. Collections on Kindle, but I’m sure other e-readers have some kind of tagging/grouping system.

I call it my “Bookshelf” collection and it’s my default view so I don’t lose track of in-progress books when I add new books to my Kindle, and I have to intentionally remove a book if I decide it’s a DNF rather than just forgetting about it.