You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion

With regards to books u want to read etc. When u see a book u think u might like to read do u get it right away or do u add it to a list? Just wondering how everyone else organises themselves

If I'm shopping and see a good deal on a book i've been after, I'll probably buy it, but I won't necessarily read it straight away, though I will add it to my 'to-read' list on here.
I rarely go looking to buy books I've heard are good, I add them to my wishlist/wait until I see them somewhere cheap, as I have far too many already!

I'm not really organised with my to-reads, when I finish a book, I'll have a look at my bookshelves and just pick up whichever one takes my fancy at that moment

Sharon wrote: "With regards to books u want to read etc. When u see a book u think u might like to read do u get it right away or do u add it to a list? Just wondering how everyone else organises themselves"

I totally impulse buy, unless its a series I'm following and I know the next one is coming out.

Since I joined here, I add to my to-read shelf but don't read them in any particular order.

eh, all of my books are alphabetized by Author, then title. I have three sections, to-read, already read, & "reference" When it comes to picking up books, I am really an impulse buyer. If I see something at a garage sale or something like that, I'll pick it up if it looks good. It's only when I get home that I am anal about my books.

I organise my books by Author and title too, but all of my to-reads and read are in together. I have a different section for my ever-growing true crime books, and my reference and text books reside on a different shelf.

I just pick one to read that takes my fancy at the time, I don't have a particular order I read things in.

If i see a book i like whilst out shopping i take a note of it and add it to my wish list to look out for at the library

If I see a good book in shops, I ask myself if my local library has a copy or can I get a cheaper deal on it. Also I ask myself when would I get to read it with a TBR list of over 800 in my bedroom on 6 bookcases and also some on the floor.

Whenever I read a review of a book I might want, I add it to my Amazon Wish List. I may never buy it, but it's a useful way to keep track.

I also pick up quite a few books in charity shops, where it's more a case of buying something that they happen to have and which I think I might enjoy.

Even when I have a new book, I don't necessarily read it right away. I often read two or three related books one after the other (by the same author, or with a similar theme) and then maybe go on to something in total contast.

On my shelves, all fiction is in one area and is grouped by initial letter of author's surname, but isn't alphabetical within that, though I try to keep all those by any one author together.

I'm not organized in any way. I love Borders. I love to go and have a latte with a pile of books in front of me and the one that grabs me most and I can afford is the one I get. At home, my books are just on the shelves in the order I finished them with a pile flat at the end of books I haven't yet read.

I rarely seem to buy just one book at once as I cant resist a 3 for 2 offer! I have a vague idea of what I am looking for but go with impulse a lot of the time. I sometime keep a note of books I want on a draft text meesage in my phone or on an amazon wishlist. I have a seperate shelf on my bookcase for books waiting to be read, it never seems to get any emptier!

No worries about that yorky! I have three shelves of to reads. My goal by the end of the year is to get to 2 shelves, but who knows if that will actually happen.

Heather wrote: "No worries about that yorky! I have three shelves of to reads. My goal by the end of the year is to get to 2 shelves, but who knows if that will actually happen."

lol its crazy isnt it, I know between me and my other half we have enough books that the other hasnt read yet to not need to buy any more for a year, does this stop us? No!!

I'm slightly organsied with what I want to read as a keep a list which I always have on me, especially when I go to the library. But when it comes to buying books I am a series impulse buyer, if I see one that sounds good at the right price I tend to give in and get it, and usually it works out well lol

I usually make a list of Authors and just keep adding to it as I discover new authors. I also use sites like this one and applications like the we read app on Facebook.

I've been thinking about the TBR shelf. Currently, I have no books listed there. I have my TBR list on my iPad. I don't like that the TBR shelves are lumped into ALL. I like to think that ALL is all books I've read. I'd like to see TBR shelves exclusive so as to not skew the numbers.

I know, I tend to be a bit anal.

Lately, I've been thinking about adding the books I own in the various formats (paperback, ebook, audiobook) and just keep my wish list on my iPad.

Any thoughts on this? How do you use your TBR shelves if you use them?

I have a HUGE TBR list myself! LOL When I see something that catches my attention, that's where I put the title... But if it's something I REALLLY want to read, and am pretty certain I'd like/love it, it goes in my Wish List.

I am always updating my lists, which is especially helpful when I'm in the book stores, because all I have to do is pull up the Good Reads app on my phone, and I can go through my lists while on site.

As far as reading books as soon as I've bought them.... I don't do that all that often. I have books that I check out from the libary too, so those take precedence since I have to return them. Once I finish with library books, then I hit my own stacks ;) I'm finding that I'm actually enjoying a lot of YA fiction these days, and some chick-lit, depending on the stories... and I LOVE HF, which I have a LOT of! I try to mix stuff up a bit, because reading the same type of book can become very boring.

I don't like to get caught up too much in any one genre although I do have my favorites.

@Janice - how do you list it on the iPad?

Kate wrote: "@Janice - how do you list it on the iPad?"

I kept a list on Notes. Recently, I downloaded Evernote and moved it there.

I put the books that look interesting a temporary list ( goodreads wishlist, post-it notes, etc.) until I can put it on the list in my kindle. I keep my wishlist there because there's a nice list/note app to keep it in order and I can read the first few chapters using the samples to see if I actually like the book. I keep unread sample books in one collection and read in another (the ones I don't like get deleted) from there I can look out for the books I want in the kindle store, bookstore, library, or to borrow from a friend and not forget about them. i just add to and remove from the list as it changes.

I broke down and added all the books I own (in whatever format - paperback, ebook, or audiobook) on my TBR list, and I set up a wish list for all the books that I'm interested in but don't have.

I never used to keep lists but I started buying duplicates of books I already owned so I had to do something. It seems to have taken on a life of its own.

Janice, I just finished doing the same thing and taking an inventory of all of the books that I own. I did find a few that I have duplicates of also. I'm going to start carrying my list with me from now on.

Speaking just for myself, I keep all my lists on my goodreads bookshelf. Before I joined I had a list on my library's website of books I wanted to check out, all the books I owned were sorted, and all the books I wanted to read that weren't at the library were on a document I'd carry to bookstores. What a mess.

Now, to me, "all books" means "all books that I can remember ever reading and all books that I want to read whether I own them or not." And then I have a bunch of exclusive shelves to keep my 'wishlist' and my 'wishlist-library' and my 'to-read library' etc. sorted out.

Almost all my books are on exclusive shelves so they are listed once and only once, so my "all" is very close to the total of all my individual shelves. I don't shelf-tag by genre or favorites or year read or any of those interesting things other people do.

I also have my phone with GR's on it with me wherever I go. And most of my books are listed on there.

I have a tbr here, but that's kind of like every single book that sparks my interest for a second or so :D. I have a more condensed list of books that I really-really-really-really wanna read - the ones that are not avalaible in my country, I collect on my Book Depository wishlist, and the ones that I like I collect on a wishlist on a Hungarian book selling website.