Okay, so if you haven’t heard already I’m planning to travel around the world after I graduate. It’s not going to be a whirlwind tour, and in fact it’ll probably take a couple of years! I’m planning to settle down in various places as well, if I can get a decent enough job (and a work visa, of course). One of the places I want to live is New Zealand, which means I’ll have to ship my stuff over seas. Which means mucho money spent on postage. Which means I need to jettison most of my stuff. And by “stuff” I mean mostly books.
According to my LibraryThing account I’ve got somewhere around 880 books. No WAY am I moving that many books across the ocean, especially since I haven’t read around half of them! So I have a plan. It’s in two parts, because I’m awesome like that.
Part One: Mount TBR
Like I said, I haven’t read a lot of the books that are in my collection. According to my LibraryThing account, it’s somewhere around 340 as of yesterday afternoon. Now, if I read 25 books a month I can just make it to 300 books by the time I leave next March (which it when I plan to). I might be able to swing more during the summer, and if I also get rid of the books I’ll never read (because you know there are), I might just be able to conquer Mount TBR by the time I leave. That would be fantastic!
To do that I have to a) stop taking in books and b) make the majority of my reading from my shelves. Now, I have a hard time with that first letter, because I work in a freakin’ library and it’s just hard, okay. But I have stopped buying books and I’m only taking in a few new ones from BookMooch and whatnot. Less than 5 a month, I’d say. It’s not that bad, really. The second letter is easier because I’ll just make sure to force myself to scan my shelves for a book instead of reading that great library book I found last week (Trailing the Giant Panda, looks extremely interesting).
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