Hey everyone!! I'm back with a new post! Today, I want to share with you something that I've been wanting to talk about since I started blogging again.
I've been a huge reader my whole life. I used to mostly borrow books from the library. I've used the library most of my reading life, from elementary school- after high school. I very rarely bought books, and used to have a very small book collection. That was before I discovered BookTube in 2012. After that, I did still use the library a lot, but once I started my BookTube channel in 2014, that's when I really started buying books. I bought books a lot in the past 10-12 years. It was really bad when I worked at bookstores. My book buying addiction became very bad! I used to own lots of bookshelves, and previously had four bookshelves filled with books. Most of them were books I haven't read yet. It really got out of control. That was several years ago, in 2024. I ended up quitting my bookstore job, and after that, my book-buying went down. That's when I started purging books. Owning so many books, started to really stress me out, especially because I'm a very slow reader now. I used to read a lot faster when I was younger, but not anymore. It was so stressful to look at my shelves, and see 200-300 books that I haven't read. I asked myself what was the point in having them, if I'm not reading them, or reading them right away? It would take me years to read all of those books. I didn't want to feel stressed out looking at my books anymore. So, that's when I decided to go through my book collection, and get rid of books. I went through and got rid of books that I wasn't interested in reading anymore, and I honestly DNF'd a lot of them, so that helped get rid of them faster too. After un-hauling books the past two years, this is what my book collection looks like now!
It's only two bookshelves! I went from having four full bookshelves, to only two now, and all of the shelves aren't even filled up! The pink cart is my physical TBR, and it's so small now! I only have 7 books on my physical TBR, instead of 200 books. It feels so good! I'm not stressed out looking at my book collection now. I'm very strict with what books I choose to keep now. I'm only keeping my favorite books/series, and I'm only keeping books that I will reread. I love rereading, and it's been saving my reading life lately. I renewed my library card last year, and started using the library again. It feels so good! I literally went back to my reading roots! I used to be mostly a library reader, like I said before, and that's what I'm going back to. I'm using the library a lot now! I'm not buying books anymore. I've been having a blast taking trips to the library. It fills the void of going to the bookstore, but I'm not spending money. I love going through the shelves and browsing at the library. My plan now is to borrow new books from the library, and then, if I end up loving the book, then I'll buy a copy for my collection. I wasted so much money buying books that I ended up DNFing, and it makes me cringe, because I literally could've borrowed all of those books from the library, instead of wasting my money. So, yeah. You probably won't see any book hauls much in the future. I will do library hauls instead, to show you the books I check out from the library. I forgot to mention that I have a Kindle. I love my Kindle, and use it a lot. Right now, I currently have around 90 books on it. I recently went through my Kindle, and got rid of a lot of books. I like both formats, but nothing beats a physical book for me. I love holding a book, and feeling the pages.
If you liked this post, please leave me a comment. I would love to discuss this with someone. Do you have a big physical TBR? Do you use the library? Let me know!
Thank you for reading!! I'm so glad that I finally got to share this with you. Stay tuned for more posts coming soon. Happy reading!! :)
