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Carried away by reading a whole ten books in January, I thought I'd reassess (and reorder, and reshelve) the Unread Books. 491 fiction, plus a heap of non-fiction, graphic novels, Teach Yourself Visual Basic 3 in 21 Days and so forth. On the one hand, that's enough books to keep me going for ten years given my average recent reading rates if I don't get any more. On the other, 9 more books would make it a nice round number :-) and I do need to leave some space for Book Club.

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It's worse: I counted by hard/paper/trade-paper back, and by author name, to get counts and percentages by each to guide my reading choices. That's what I used to do, and enjoy, to read a bunch of S's to get them down to the same level as other authors, or read three hardbacks to get them to a round number. But does one get greater satisfaction from reading two Is to get another number down to zero, or from trimming the top of the largest categories to even things up?

Anyhow - I made the lists this time, started to analyse them, (made a spreadsheet and sorted by decreasing number by first letter of author surname and printed it out for reference posterity) started to analyse it and use it to base future reading patterns on, then threw it away and instead I shall read whichever book it most appeals to me to read at any time. Hah! *does a little dance of happiness at realising gradual escape from semi-obsessive categorisation* :-) :-)

But no more than 9 new fiction books this year (bought or borrowed) - I should manage that.

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I am all for reading the book that appeals. The other way is too much work.