My digital TBR is out of control - want to watch me lose my mind trying to tame it? 😱📚🤯

[@PaulineKoniuch]

Oh I totally relate to the "bed reading", if you have the possibility I'd recommend getting an ebook reader with a backlight display, it's perfect for that. I have an old Pocketbook and I've been using it for years, especially in the evenings or at night.

[@vacantlots]

I'd play book roulette. Get them in spreadsheet run a raffle prize winning number and read that book next.

[@hannahlosttheplot]

@@vacantlots ah yes, when in doubt, leave it to chance!

[@lester___pepper]

only stumbled upon your channel this week and wow if this is not the most relatable video ever - definitely feeling inspired to clean up my digital tbr!

[@hannahlosttheplot]

@@lester___pepper I am at once thrilled and also sorry for you that you also suffer from this affliction. Keep me posted with how it goes 🤠

[@mekiiiiiiiiii]

Oh my gosh I do the exact same things with my Thalia wishlist (Thalia is the German equivalent to Barns & Nobel) 😹 I’ve saved over 600 books I’m interested in in some extend. Sometimes I’m just intrigued by the cover. Every time they have discount on English books I’m so overwhelmed and don’t know which books I REALLY want to read. Maybe I have to create a spreadsheet as well. 🙈

[@hannahlosttheplot]

@@mekiiiiiiiiii I've now used the spreadsheet three times to pick my next audio or ebook and I can confirm it is revolutionary 😅

[@mekiiiiiiiiii]

@@hannahlosttheplot ahhh so nice to hear! I’ve started mine a few days ago and I love it already 😹

[@bethmw28]

This is going to make me want to go through my borrowbox chaotic list again isn't it....

[@bethmw28]

I've just checked and I've got around 300 audiobooks saved across the various places I listen to them... which feels very doable after your number 😂 it helps that at the end of last year I heavily culled my borrowbox list and got about 200 off there 🙈🙈

[@bethmw28]

Oh God I still haven't got round to watching Ripley... your book to screen videos often act as a reminder for me to actually watch the damn thing so I guess I need to get on that! 😂😂

[@hannahlosttheplot]

Sorry x

[@hannahlosttheplot]

​@@bethmw28 this does make me feel a lot better though, at least I'm not alone 😂 Do you find that you're still able to work out what you're in the mood to listen to? Or do you get overwhelmed by the choice?

[@hannahlosttheplot]

​@@bethmw28😂😂 same.

[@soulfreedom8447]

I have a similar problem... it's a case of too much choice

[@hannahlosttheplot]

Yup, I want the choice but I can't be trusted with the choice

[@soulfreedom8447]

How about Charlotte Molloy's system? Read 10 % of a book and continue with the ones that grab you.

[@hannahlosttheplot]

That's a good idea! At least for the shorter ones 😅

[@jillybeanh67]

Well ..... I have a mess of a tbr, so can't offer any advice, I can make you feel better though, that at least you haven't bought a load of them because of the 99p ebook deals and they are all waiting on your ereader mocking you as you borrow more books to read and not read the ones you own, and that's just ebooks 🤦that doesn't include the piles of physical. Soooo many books and I get through far fewer than you do in a year. I do wish I had the time and space to organise them though, I have a note book for ones from booktube but then that gave way to the Amazon wishlist as a tbr reminder and as I'm now moving away from kindle to kobo I have gone through the kindle one and only recreated the ones I know I definitely still want on the kobo one. I don't have everand at the moment so at least I have one less I'm keeping up with 🤦

[@hannahlosttheplot]

@@jillybeanh67 I am seriously considering suspending my Everand account periodically just to make sure I am getting to my Actual TBR. Let me know how you get on with your Kobo - I am very interested. I have a kindle fire that I bought mostly to watch KZbin on while I cook (my laptop is Not allowed in the kitchen) and I've started reading ebooks on there over the last year or so, but it's obviously a tablet not a proper ereader and the eyestrain is real.

[@jillybeanh67]

@@hannahlosttheplot I definitely need to ease up on the library books a bit (but mainly on the buying buying) I'm hoping to go back to everand as I do miss the range of audio books, instead I'm listening to lots more audio podcasts in the kitchen and on commute/school run, so less books but same amount of listening. I do really love ereaders, I had my first kindle for about 8-9 years until it started having issues, I got an amazing deal for a new one about the same time so I got that instead of moving to kobo then. I finally made the switch to kobo when I got a second hand one for my birthday and I've not gone back to Amazon apart from for one book I couldn't get on kobo. Still need to figure out getting other non-kindle ebooks I have onto it but that's just been lack of a chance to try it out. Once set up it was easy to get used to and there's parts of it I prefer for kindle. I got the kobo Libra 2 it had backlighting and buttons (you can adjust warmth and brightness) so I find it works similar to reading on a phone in bed (I used to for library ebooks before kobo) but I found the kobo, like the kindle easier on my.eyes and good for late night reading (plus with buttons if you're cold you can hide your hands under a blanket and still turn the page.)

[@hannahlosttheplot]

@@jillybeanh67 thank you for mentioning the need to keep the fingers warm, this is my main gripe with having to do a screen swipe 😂

[@jillybeanh67]

@@hannahlosttheplot I was finding not reading as much in the winter for this reason because I would get too cold, but then I'm 'nesh' as the locals say (feel the cold easily). Only downside on the kobo is the smart cover makes it go to sleep when closed, but it activates if you turn the cover back on itself too when it's open, so I have to put my finger between kobo and front of cover when flipped to stop it from going into sleep mode. But that's my only gripe

[@soulfreedom8447]

And FOMO

[@hannahlosttheplot]

@@soulfreedom8447 the fomo gets me every time.