How many books are on your to-read list? What does your TBR (to be read) pile look like? How high is your Mt TBR?
If you’re anything like me, you have a never-ending pile of books to read. I think I have five. Five piles, not five books!
My piles (and lists) are:
1. Review Copies
I get most of my review copies through NetGalley, which provides free ebooks for review (for more information, click here to read my post at Australasian Christian Writers). I review one or two books a week, and there are currently 28 books in the To Review folder on my Kindle.
2. Ebooks I’ve Bought
Another folder on my Kindle is my 207 To Read folder. This is for books I’ve bought off Amazon since I got my Paperwhite in January this year. When I say “bought”, I mean “paid money for”. Yes, it would appear I buy more than one Kindle book a week … and don’t read them fast enough. There are currently 44 books in this folder.
3. Free Ebooks I’ve Downloaded
When I first got my Kindle I did what many new Kindle owners do: I downloaded dozens—okay, hundreds—of free ebooks. Most of them I’ve never read. There are 30 books in my 2017 Free Books folder on my Paperwhite, and I think there are over 1,000 on my previous Kindle Keyboard. Go on. Judge me. I have no impulse control.
4. Writing Craft Books
I buy and read a lot of writing craft books for my own writing and editing. Some are reference books I’ll never read from cover to cover (like dictionaries and style manuals). Others are books I do want to read. I’ve probably got ten physical books, plus a similar number of ebooks.
5. Physical novels I’ve bought and haven’t yet read.
This is the only physical stack of books—the rest are virtual. I never had unread book before I got my Kindle, and I wondered how people had stacks of unread books. Now know. I think I’ve got about 30 unread paperbacks. I think.
Some of these are books I’ve been given, and others are books I bought (often with my Koorong vouchers—for those of you who live in Australia or New Zealand, Koorong.com.au gives you a $10 voucher for every four reviews you write on their site, or every two video reviews. You can earn a maximum of $10 a month, and the vouchers are valid for three months. They can be used in store, or online.
Rayne Shelby has spent her entire life trying to earn the approval of her high-powered family, with the hope of one day managing her late grandfather’s prestigious Idaho lodge. But when she makes a mistake that puts her future in jeopardy, she faces an impossible choice: defy her family or deny her dream. The only way to fix the mess she’s created is to enlist the help of her neighbor, Levi, the apprentice of her family’s greatest enemy. And if Rayne gets caught crossing the divided property lines, the consequences will be irreparable.