I Confess, I have An Addiction...

brainstorm77 · May 25, 2009

I confess, I have an addiction. I keep buying books even thought I have about 150 books on my to be read list yet I just keep buying more. :tongue

Does anyone share this addicton?

backslashbaby · May 25, 2009

I do

There are too many great things to read!

I usually buy used, so it's hard to pass up on things for the price/availability thing too.

jennontheisland · May 25, 2009

Not really. I don't usually buy books unless I know I want to read them immediately. But other people seem to like giving me books. I've got piles and piles of them, most of which are unread, that I plan on taking to the UBS in the next couple of weeks. Some of them have been sitting for over a year.

Zipotes · May 25, 2009

BIG TIME!

I have SO many books on my bookshelf to read, but everytime I hear of more potentials I'm online ordering or making a pit stop to one of two bookstores I frequent.
I keep telling myself I MUST stop until I've at least read half on my 'to read' shelf, but I'm addicted. I've stooped to hiding books so I won't get in trouble.

spamwarrior · May 26, 2009

Nope, I just borrow from the library. Endlessly. I read fast, and that helps me keep up

brokenfingers · May 26, 2009

brainstorm77 said:
I confess, I have an addiction. I keep buying books even thought I have about 150 books on my to be read list yet I just keep buying more. Does anyone share this addicton?

I used to do something like that, but then I went through a period where I couldn't read and enjoy a book. I must've started and stopped about 30 books during drought of a couple of years.

I began reading again a little over a year ago.

Now I buy online more than anything. No more impulse buying. I also usually research a book, read reviews, excerpts etc before I buy it.

AmandaAcidic · May 26, 2009

Oh... SOO BAD.

I can't help it. I always tell myself I'm just going in to B&N to look. I'm not going to buy a new book.

I usually walk out with two.

brainstorm77 · May 26, 2009

I buy mainly online but I find myself buying at thrift stores and used book stores not to mention whenever I go shopping and pass a book display.

EFCollins · May 27, 2009

I not only buy books every chance I get, if hubs or kids or the 'rents ask what I want for b-days, mothers day etc. I ask for more books. That's all I want. For any reason. Give me a book and I'm like a kid getting the biggest toy in the room.

benbradley · May 27, 2009

Beek pron:

Hints on getting books without breaking the bank:
http://ben-bradley.blogspot.com/2007/08/how-and-where-i-buyget-books.html

Ben, "professional addict."

Jill Leo · May 29, 2009

Absolutely!! I just drove from C. FLA to ATL and there is a Books Under $3 Outlet and got almost 3 dozen to add to the untold dozens in my queue!! I only buy extremely discounted books or my favorite authors 'cuz I can't wait to snag it at the library.

Of course, I hope everyone lays down full price for my books!!

RunawayScribe · May 29, 2009

I'm trying to switch to the library. I have this problem too - I love re-reading books I've enjoyed, so I like owning them. Thanks to this addiction, I own a handful I didn't enjoy so much, though...I'm meaning to donate those.

scarletpeaches · May 30, 2009

I have nearly 400 books on my TBR pile and well over 700 in total.

Grrarrgh · May 30, 2009

It's so bad. So, so bad. I try so hard to stop, but I just can't. I try to start getting them from the library, but no go. Then I tell myself that I can't get any from the library until I read and donate/give away some of the ones I have. That doesn't work, either. I would just stay out of the library until I've done that, but I like to go get audio books to load onto my Ipod so I can listen to books when I'm driving. And as long as I'm already at the library, it wouldn't hurt to just check and see what's new, right? Right??????

Bookdragonette · May 31, 2009

brainstorm77 said:
I confess, I have an addiction. I keep buying books even thought I have about 150 books on my to be read list yet I just keep buying more. Does anyone share this addicton?

Yeah, but do you feel quilty for not having read the books you bought several months ago? I do. I have books I bought last year I haven't read yet.

brainstorm77 · May 31, 2009

Bookdragonette said:
Yeah, but do you feel quilty for not having read the books you bought several months ago? I do. I have books I bought last year I haven't read yet.

I do a little, but I figure I will get around to them

I'm also in the process of having some built in shelving installed in my living room to house some of them

KTC · May 31, 2009

benbradley said:
Beek pron:

Hints on getting books without breaking the bank:
http://ben-bradley.blogspot.com/2007/08/how-and-where-i-buyget-books.html

Ben, "professional addict."

Which addiction is worse...the guitars or the books?

RunawayScribe · May 31, 2009

brainstorm77 said:
I do a little, but I figure I will get around to them I'm also in the process of having some built in shelving installed in my living room to house some of them

Yeah, same. I get to them eventually - it just takes me awhile sometimes.

Bookdragonette · Jun 1, 2009

brainstorm77 said:
I do a little, but I figure I will get around to them I'm also in the process of having some built in shelving installed in my living room to house some of them

True. I try to keep the same attitude, but it can get hard in the face of the pile of the unread books.

dgiharris · Jun 1, 2009

benbradley said:
Beek pron:

Hints on getting books without breaking the bank:
http://ben-bradley.blogspot.com/2007/08/how-and-where-i-buyget-books.html

Ben, "professional addict."

I usually just steal my books. You know, break into B&N late at night.

On a completely unrelated topic. Ben. Where do you live? I have a umm... letter... yeah, a letter that I ummm... want to mail you.

Also, when do you take your vacations?

Mel...

Arisa81 · Jun 1, 2009

I have a to be read list, which at the moment has about 105 books on it. I just keep adding to the list every time I come across another book I want to read, but I don't have any books piling up that I haven't read. I have that bit of self-control, I guess, lol. Truth be told, if I could buy all the books I love and want to read, I would be a very happy woman.

Chauchat Butterfly · Jun 2, 2009

I've got a large box overflowing with books I've yet to read. I made a pact with myself when I started reading seriously to always keep it full. Well, it's more than full, although, I confess that many of the books in it are large (Don Quixote, I Know this Much is True, House of Leaves). I don't want to start another box but I may have to. Especially now that I've bought seven new (read: used) books today from the thrift store:

Bel Canto, Anne Patchett
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson
A book of plays by Henrik Ibsen and one of short stories by Dostoyevsky (Including Notes form the Underground).

All at just under eight bucks.

brainstorm77 · Jun 2, 2009

Chauchat Butterfly said:
I've got a large box overflowing with books I've yet to read. I made a pact with myself when I started reading seriously to always keep it full. Well, it's more than full, although, I confess that many of the books in it are large (Don Quixote, I Know this Much is True, House of Leaves). I don't want to start another box but I may have to. Especially now that I've bought seven new (read: used) books today from the thrift store:

Bel Canto, Anne Patchett
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson
A book of plays by Henrik Ibsen and one of short stories by Dostoyevsky (Including Notes form the Underground).

All at just under eight bucks.

Thrift stores are great, I also on occasion have found some great reads in the dollar bin at the used book store.

Lady Cat · Jun 2, 2009

I think my wake up call about my book buying addiction came when I was organizing the bookcases in my office and discovered I had five duplicates - books that were both on my already-read-shelf and my to-be-read shelf.

I have 14 bookcases spread throughout the house (six of which are in my office) and one of them is filled with books I haven't read yet. Now that I'm financially challenged, I've been trying to make myself read five books before I can buy a new one.

Good thing I read fast!

brainstorm77 · Jun 2, 2009

Lady Cat said:
I think my wake up call about my book buying addiction came when I was organizing the bookcases in my office and discovered I had five duplicates - books that were both on my already-read-shelf and my to-be-read shelf.

I have 14 bookcases spread throughout the house (six of which are in my office) and one of them is filled with books I haven't read yet. Now that I'm financially challenged, I've been trying to make myself read five books before I can buy a new one.

Good thing I read fast!

What did you do with the duplicates?

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