How many books have you unread on your shelf?

corblimey · 25-11-2009 01:42PM #1

Just did a quick count last night, and I have 44 unread books on my shelf right now. Add to that another 15 or so that I loaned to my dad that will be coming back to me this Christmas on top of whatever books I get for the actual event, and I have a feeling that I'll be topping off around 60 unread books come the new year! :eek:

(I'm hoping to knock off a few of the 44 between now and Xmas)

Even if I read one a week, I won't need to buy another book til about Mar 2011

Anyone doing worse than me?

Funglegunk · 25-11-2009 02:06PM

corblimey wrote: »

Anyone doing worse than me?

Not worse than you, actually you've made me feel better!

J/k, I have about 25 unread books. Curse that bookdepository and its free delivery!

Graceland · 25-11-2009 07:53PM

Just counted my unread books now and I have 276, lol. That should keep me going for a few years. The worst thing is now I have joined the Book Depository:)

Valmont · 26-11-2009 03:06AM

Book depository does not help the unread book pile. I added two more to mine today and now it has.....11. It mocks me every morning I wake up!

Denerick · 26-11-2009 03:29PM

I have around 300 books at my permanent home and around 35 in my Dublin adress. I'd say I've read between 25-30% of my books at home and a good 60-70% of my books in Dublin. The problem is that I tend to use libraries a bit too, so its not entirely representative... Too... many... books!!

emeraldstar · 26-11-2009 06:52PM

Literally hundreds. Between books I've bought but not had time to read, books from college that I didn't read even then, books I've taken from my granny's house (which is FULL of books) with the intention of reading but never got around to, books I've won (won 80 in a single competition last year

), books I've been given, books I've 'inherited' from around the house, etc. I've long ago faced the fact that I will never, ever catch up with my backlog!

Valmont · 26-11-2009 08:41PM

I always thought I was the only one with an unread book pile! I feel much better now.

emeraldstar wrote: »

books I've won (won 80 in a single competition last year ),

What sort of competition has a prize of 80 books? Was it one of those ironic prizes in that you won an xfactor endurance rally or something? No?:P

Corkfeen · 26-11-2009 08:54PM

Have about 30 to 40. Keep buying books that are about a 1000 pages long so its beginning to drive me nuts.:D

dudara · 26-11-2009 08:58PM

I have close on 1,000 books and I'd say that there are about 75 in my unread pile. I receive review copies of books for advance reviews so I try to read them first, which means that books I purchase tend to get pushed to the back of the pile.

I'm flying to San Fran soon though, so I'd imagine that I'll get through a few on the flights there and back.

ixoy · 26-11-2009 09:24PM

22 books at a total of 11,045 pages (yes, I keep a spread sheet). That's excluding 'Doctor Who' books whose total I no longer know (and books I have no plans to read any time in the immediate future).

Paddy Samurai · 27-11-2009 02:39PM

Have 24 books at the moment to read,with 2 more on the way.Also have a list of around another 10(mostly out of print) that i am after.
Hope to order one or two of these in the next week.

Sephiroth_dude · 27-11-2009 05:43PM

I've no more than 10 I'd say,I plan on reading them.........at some stage :pac:

Eliot Rosewater · 28-11-2009 01:00AM

About 20 or so. I used to feel unbelievably guilty about them until I started reading here! Some one Ive no interest in reading. Ive decided that life really is too short to spend reading stuff you dont want to.

Ive cut down on buying books a lot in the last while, due to this backlog. My girlfriend always gives out about my buying books. Even if she has a book and offers to loan it, I want to buy it anyway. She says its sad. Pffft! Nothing can beat the owning of a book. Placing it on your shelf so that in the morning you can gaze over the multicolored spines. Take it down, feel the cover, read the blurb, search for quotes ... owning a book cannot be substituted by mere lending arrangements.

Lame Lantern · 28-11-2009 01:56AM

College has provided me with a sizeable Stack of Shame. A lot of books with spines cracked up to page 40 with no damage any further. I could use them to pinpoint the days I curtailed study time to go play drunken Guitar Hero in somebody's campus apartment.

Seren_ · 28-11-2009 07:53PM

I seriously do not want to know how many unread books I have! I just counted 15 on my bookshelf, and that's just the ones that I have at college. There must be at least 50 more at home.

eclectichoney · 29-11-2009 12:31PM

I'd say I've about 50 or so, but this year (as a function of my financial situation!) I have made a conscious effort to wade through some of the TBR pile. I finally got around to reading The Magus which I bought about 3 years ago! :eek::eek: Was thinking of implementing a 'for every 1 new book i read i have to read a TBR one' rule

ally2 · 29-11-2009 02:06PM

This thread made me smile because I am currently haunted by my bookshelf. On top of the unread books, I recently ordered a pile more that I know will take me a year at least to read. I wish I could read faster but I tend to pour over the pages of a great book, re-reading great sentences, etc.

I have to stop buying books until I've read at least ten out of the estimated 100 unread that are there.

pixiegaga · 18-01-2010 08:00PM

wowey I have 5 and I thought that was shocking!!! Well I am only 16!!! x x x

Dublin141 · 18-01-2010 08:05PM

At least 50 - I'm afraid to count them though...I bought too many books over the last two years and received an awful lot of free ones and unproofed copies so a lot of things got pushed to the back and forgotten about. I will catch up.

mackthefinger · 18-01-2010 08:35PM

Damn this thread, made me go and count 'em.
I keep them in separate 'little' piles, as they don't
haunt me as much then.

About 25 or so. In the habit of reading one book about a
subject, then deciding I have to check out lots of others
about the same thing. Similar for authors I discover.

But I wouldn't have it any other way. I need a selection
of books to choose from for my 'next' one, depending on
mood.

Plowman · 18-01-2010 09:16PM

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Sephiroth_dude · 18-01-2010 10:26PM

I just recounted and I have 18 :O,I really have to stop buying books until that lot is read.

Malari · 19-01-2010 11:20AM

Wow, I don't have any unread, apart from the couple I bought at the weekend, because I only have a day or two left in the one I am reading! I just read everything I get. Maybe I should be more discerning...;)

lemon_sherbert · 19-01-2010 05:48PM

Mm, I have a terrible book collecting addiction, I would think I have about 75-100 unread books in my room... not to mention those in the rest of the house

But I don't feel too guilty about it, I know I'll get round to them eventually

Plowman · 19-01-2010 11:28PM

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Ave Sodalis · 20-01-2010 12:57AM

3

Thomas828 · 23-01-2010 12:26AM

I'm not much of a bookworm so there aren't more than five. There are dozens more that for one reason or another I've never got round to finishing.

KRIS VL · 23-01-2010 03:11PM

I have only 5. Maximum.

JesseCuster · 24-01-2010 08:57PM

lemon_sherbert wrote: »

I would think I have about 75-100 unread books in my room... not to mention those in the rest of the house

Not far off this myself!
I cannot enter a bookshop without buying something - it's an addiction I guess.

gaf1983 · 25-01-2010 11:06PM

Probably about 15 or 20 on my shelf.... not to mention the 20 or so on the floor... the 10 others between my bed and the wall.... the 10 or so on my desk... the couple of audiobooks I downloaded.....don't even want to think about the 50 or so classics I downloaded with Stanza onto my iPod.

Talk about having your work cut out for you.

Cicero · 26-01-2010 11:57PM

Must be close to 30 or 40......:o,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,someday.......I just keep buying others I want to read first..:P

How many books have you unread on your shelf?

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