I’m also joining in with a reading goal!
This is something I’ve been thinking about for a while and finally managed to work out the exact numbers over the last week. I knew I had an unreasonable number of unread physical books in my house, but I wasn’t sure how many. I’ve now gotten them all cataloged in StoryGraph, and including the new book I got at a later holiday party, the number goes up to 149. I want to get that number down to 139 by the end of the year.
Can I read more than ten physical books in a year? Undoubtedly. Can I read more than ten physical books that I own, not from the library, without acquiring more? That’s more of a question. So I’m trying to keep the challenge realistic, while still keeping me on my toes–I definitely didn’t read this many books from my own shelves last year and I acquired plenty.
The goal is here: tbr – claredragonfly – beeminder The slope doesn’t start to decrease until the end of the month to give me a chance to actually start a book from the TBR.
Because this is a manual-entry goal and I have to do a bit of clicking to find the number, I plan to update it weekly, rather than daily, which would get to be tedious. To help with that I’ve set up a meta goal as well: tbr-meta – claredragonfly – beeminder (I don’t have to limit myself to weekly updates, but if I update more than once a week I will ratchet the meta goal so I have to keep working on it.)
This will be a “no derailing” resolution.