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How many on your TBR shelf?

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I have 8 printed books and 7 on my Kindle that are just waiting for me to read them. If I see a book I'm interested in... I just gotta!! Anybody else have this problem?
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I have 10 books on my TBR. It is growing quicker than I can read. I really need to do some serious reading. My TBR list is the actual books. I have 10 books sitting on the shelf looking at me. My MTBR (maybe to be read) list is too long to mention. :)
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I have about 12 that I haven't started, and 3 that have been started but not finished. I'm always reading more than one book at a time haha. I'm surprised I don't get the plots all mixed up.
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I have about 80 books on my TBR! I have friends who keep insisting I read this book and that book and lending me their copies of them so I read through them whilst my own shelf/list accumulates more and more. :) I'll get there eventually!
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I have 38 actual books waiting in line between my physical TBR shelf and my Kindle, plus 9 books on the working from TBR pile on the floor beside me .... but the 'virtual' TBR list on my laptop is probably well into the hundred's.

... I think I'm covered until the apocalypse
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There are 12 books on my bulging shelf waiting to be read and given how up and down i am with reading i dont know when they will finally be read :lol:
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I have about 10 tbr books but that dosent always work with me. I usually get sidetracked to something else or lose interest in the ones I have picked out so I more or less gave up on it and just read whatever comes to mind.
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I have an ever-increasing pile beside my bed,probably about thirty and growing.A lot are books that have not sufficiently engaged me to keep on reading them!!! :)
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I have at least 10 books lying around for my TBR. Plus yesterday I made list of books I've already read this year and my TBR list has at least 12 books I want to read. My parents own a bookstore here in Michigan. So my problem is I go in and see books that I want to read so the list is always growing.
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Linz wrote:I have at least 10 books lying around for my TBR. Plus yesterday I made list of books I've already read this year and my TBR list has at least 12 books I want to read. My parents own a bookstore here in Michigan. So my problem is I go in and see books that I want to read so the list is always growing.
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Far out! I would be in hog heaven. :D
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I'm glad I'm not the only one! Haha! I just added 5 more books to the pile today so I'm up to 13 on the shelf and 7 on Kindle!
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Yeah I'm not gonna lie. Its pretty cool getting all the books you want for free! I still like to hang in Barnes and Noble on occasion though. Just to check out the competition! haha
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Oh, I have to stay away from bookstores alltogether for the next ten years or so, jus counted through my books and found about 150 that I haven´t read yet :oops: . But I could probably throw out half of them, bought or got them years ago and they are not quite my taste anymore. All weird romancenovels has to go... There are just too many good books and writers out there, have to read more!
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Post by Maud Fitch »

There are nine books to be read on my proper TBR table but there are books beside my bed as well; and there's a couple of, oh, let's just say about 14 with two being read simultaneously.

Every time I visit my public library I borrow another one!
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