Follow-up to last week’s question:
Do you keep all your unread books together, like books in a waiting room? Or are they scattered throughout your shelves, mingling like party-goers waiting for the host to come along?
I’ve always kept all of my unread books together wherever I am. I don’t know why; I just think they should be separate! When I was younger and had a tiny TBR stack, I used to keep it on my bed next to my pillow since I didn’t have a nightstand. That way I could just grab whatever was next. I ran out pretty frequently in those days! Then it migrated to next to my bed because it kept falling over. And then it moved across the room and multiplied because I couldn’t get to my bed anymore! Now I have a mountain range along the side of my room. I don’t have space on the shelves for the books I read, either, so they go in stacks next to the bookshelves. This is in my parents’ house. I’m not sure how things are going to go when I move in with Keith later this year given that he has no bookshelves, but we’ll figure it out somehow. Regardless, reads and unreads are always separated. I like to see what I have to read at a glance!
Do you mix up your reads and unreads or do you separate them like me?
I’m the same way, for the most part. I think I have a few books just for show, doorstops that WILL someday be read but just not in the hear future, that are displayed on my shelf but for the most part, they are not mingled due to the same problem….not enough space!
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The only time I could have messy piles of books was when I lived by myself. So due to lack of space at the moment, my TBR and read books are all on the same shelf.
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I like mixed. Or scattered. It doesn’t bother me at all!
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I don’t like my food touching, and I don’t like my books mingling. I got a little panicked at your question, “Do you mixe up your reads and unreads.” I wasn’t going to do BTT today, but I have to tell on myself… confession is good for the soul, right?
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I keep most of TBR in a single place, but eventually they begin to mingle. I try to separate them, but I turn my back and there they are are cozying up to one another.
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I’m so right there with you!
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Mine are mixed up. I told my husband last night that we need to add a library on to our house. He didn’t go for that idea.
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I keep them separate. Otherwise I would go crazy trying to find them–they’d spread all over the house.
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I don’t purposefully try to keep them together but I think they naturally tend to gravitate toward each other just by the fact that I have so many more to read than I have read.
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Mine get a little mixed up but lately I’ve been keeping them all together more and more.
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I’d prefer to keep everything separated (I used to), but at this point I have such a TBR pile (it grows even as I write this) and glaring lack of space that I have to put things wherever I can fit them.
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I keep my unread books separate from the books I have read too for the most part. I like the image of a mountain range of books in your room.
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