I’m also a very *fast* reader and have been averaging 2 or 3 books a day since I was ten, which sometimes leads to problems finding new material to read and gnashing of teeth at the length of time between books by favorite authors. But it also lead me to read in a lot of different genres, SF/F, Romance, Westerns, Detective, Adventure, Biographies, History, and Military History.

Grin. Lately I finally found a new solution for my addiction, I became a volunteer slush reader, not as good as being a *paid* reader but boy do I get to read a lot!

Being an AR is also one of the reasons I got involved in the E-Book Reader project over at Baen’s Bar. The idea of being able to carry a whole library around with me in a pocket was just too appealing not to. But when I started looking around for a good reader I didn’t like what I found, too small a screen, too expensive for someone like me [I'm on disability and money gets tight], won’t read other formats, etc. The usual problems. Hopefully we’ll be able to address them in a satisfactory manner.

My TBR stack seldom reaches more than 10 books at a time since I can seldom afford more than that. But boy does my Been Read stack mount up sometimes! I have a six shelf bookcase by the bed and have to clear it out every other month or so. Thank goodness for Used bookstores and trading and public libraries.

This actually came from the BIG retailers (Wal-Mart,Target.etc). It started with the Music and video companies and books were added later on. They wanted one day when all of the new release big entertainment products would be on sale (it’s now called super Tuesdays)

I’ve never counted my book collection. I’m afraid to. I’m quite sure it’s somewhere in the thousands and that’s after a pretty significant book purge a couple of years ago. My TBR piles alone have to be at least something like a couple hundred books at this point – and I admit, that part is a little overwhelming sometimes. But which ones would I give up???

Something like that. I”m not explaining it precisely right, but there is a reason.

I have two TBR piles – the A pile which is about 15 – 20 books normally and the B pile which is hidden between my bedside table and the wall and consists of about 50 books. As and Bs are regularly re-organised into different reading orders. I also have books stuffed into shelves, baskets, cupboards, under the bed, in drawers and stacked in piles along walls. I do manage to read about 4 a week on average.

I have no way to justify this other than it makes me very, very happy!

Now, my need to buy sweets for myself and fail to finish them before I get bored and buy more — THAT I’ll contemplate some guilt over.

I have just over 900 ebooks. I have no idea how I endedup with that many. Instant Gratification can be very expensive.

Pitiful story – after 3 years in Japan, I had quite the hoard of books. Did I leave them behind? Welllllll, some of them. The rest got shipped across the ocean… Sad, very sad.

I love this, in every way.

Let me say next, God bless you, every one.

I fall far short of the AR as demonstrated here. In fact, I’m in awe of the ARs commenting here. If I could, I would marry you all and bear many, many young for you.

I consider myself more of a gobbler. A horder/gobbler. An HG reader. Gather and horde the books, gather and horde, often going days without being able to dive in. Then gobbling one after another. I simply can’t read a chapter or two, not if I fall into the book. Must. Have. It. All. So I gobble when I have a chunk of time to allow it. Sit. Wallow. Then quickly grab the next and gobble that.

But compared to those commenting here, I am a poor shadow of a reader, and I bow to you.

One good thing that came from this is that the whole family reads. While I consider my husband and sons to be recreational readers, all three are readers with varied interests. It sure makes for some interesting meal time conversations.

Huge TBR pile (and box and shelf and bag and…), husband who views my addiction dubiously. Slow reader, due to kidlets and writing. I just like to …. own …. books. It makes me feel rich. Other possessions don’t have that same effect for me, except, you know, money. But if I have a wealth of unread treasures, books that might just be the next best thing since dark chocolate, I feel like the luckiest woman on the block.

And I need a freakin intervention with my books.

As for Tuesdays (which are also release dates for CDs and video games, by the way), my theory is that a Tuesday release makes the most of a week’s sales while removing the factor of those pesky Monday holidays from the equation.

Or something like that.