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How big is your 'to read' folder?

Started by Parasaurolophus, June 16, 2024, 05:38:30 PM

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Parasaurolophus

I was just consolidating/reorganizing my PDF library, and saw that my 'to read' folder has 1085 items, of which 198 are in the 'exciting readings' folder.

It gives me some hope that I might manage to read at least the things I marked as exciting. And really, a thousand isn't that many articles and books--I read 500 or so for my book, which only took about 18 months to write. So really, it should be possible to read them all--not that I will.

So... how big is your 'to read' folder?
I know it's a genus.

Kron3007

You are way more organized than I am...

Wahoo Redux

I have about 350 files and folders total.  Not sure how many are in the files, but I don't think I have 1,000.  I do have one whole mega-folder called "Books Stolen from the Web."
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jerseyjay

I have several projects in varied state of research--from actively writing to ideas that I have been playing with for years. Then there are things that I am interested in for teaching, general interest, etc. Each one has a folder (e.g., "snails," "eating burgers for breakfast," "the great kangaroo war of 1956," etc. When I find an article (or book) that fits one of these categories, I save it in the appropriate category.

My actual to-read material is the stack of books on my office floor. Actually, about five of them, each four feet tall. I randomly pick a book off a stack when I have time to read.

Sun_Worshiper

Quote from: jerseyjay on June 19, 2024, 06:53:24 PMI have several projects in varied state of research--from actively writing to ideas that I have been playing with for years. Then there are things that I am interested in for teaching, general interest, etc. Each one has a folder (e.g., "snails," "eating burgers for breakfast," "the great kangaroo war of 1956," etc. When I find an article (or book) that fits one of these categories, I save it in the appropriate category.

My actual to-read material is the stack of books on my office floor. Actually, about five of them, each four feet tall. I randomly pick a book off a stack when I have time to read.

This is about the same for me. I have lots of papers bookmarked, but they are more for me to have on hand for research projects underway, as opposed to papers that I'm just itching to read. But I do have a lot of books on my shelf that I'm planning to get to sooner or later.


apl68

Quote from: jerseyjay on June 19, 2024, 06:53:24 PMMy actual to-read material is the stack of books on my office floor. Actually, about five of them, each four feet tall. I randomly pick a book off a stack when I have time to read.

IIRC, you work in the field of history, so that's not too surprising.

Since I don't live close to any bookstores, I do a couple of major book-buying expeditions each year when I get a chance to go somewhere that has a variety of them.  I came back from one last month, and currently have stacks of material like what you describe, except that they're mostly on a table, not on the floor.
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bio-nonymous

My current reading list just for background for the grant proposal I am writing is ~180 papers--I will get to very few of them...

I keep wanting to carve out a dedicated "reading" block of time, but it never seems to happen...always other competing priorities getting in the way.

Uggg.