# Book-buying experiment (HT: "Separating Impulse from Action" by DRMacIver) **URL:** \ **Category:** Akrasia\ **Created:** [May 17, 2020, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/book-buying-experiment-ht-separating-impulse-from-action-by-drmaciver/6767 "2020-05-17T18:22:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![zedmango](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c67d28/32.png) [@zedmango](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/zedmango)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2020, 6:23am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/book-buying-experiment-ht-separating-impulse-from-action-by-drmaciver/6767/2 "2020-05-18T06:23:29Z")
Ooh cool! I’d just have a goal for “did I buy the correct number of books this week Y/N” with a 1/week rate, and score 1 for yes (bought exactly 1 book) and 0 for no (bought some number of books other than 1). I’m also a bit of a bibliomaniac [(good article)](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/26/bibliomania-the-strange-history-of-compulsive-book-buying) - books are so magical - but I’m ok with that. I don’t want to stop! I’d like to adapt this system in some way for my [web page problem](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/please-help-with-tab-panic-3020-firefox-tabs-are-making-me-go-insane/6201) though. Not sure how other people manage to avoid having hundreds or thousands of tabs open. I need to get a Firefox addon that has a tab queue and train myself to open new links in the queue instead of in a new tab! --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/book-buying-experiment-ht-separating-impulse-from-action-by-drmaciver/6767)._