This tag was created by Lindsey’s Little Library, I found it on Jane Rosebery’s blog and decided to tag myself!
Dilemma #1: How do you store and organise your books?
I have two bookcases at the minute so they are jam packed with piles on top of them. As for organising them I do this alphabetically by the authors last name, apart from my Nordic Noir shelf which has all my favourites from that genre on there. The books I read usually have dark covers and spines so I could never do any pretty rainbow shelves.
Dilemma #2: How do you keep track of what you have read and what books you own?
I use Goodreads, however I noticed at the end of 2019 that it didn’t give me the specifics I wanted as it was hard to find the right edition and I read a lot of audio books. I also wanted to keep track of where I sourced my books from so I am using the spreadsheet that Books With Emily Fox uses, I don’t know excel enough to be able to figure out how to sort all the charts out but I’m just putting all the information in that I want to.
Here is the link for the dropbox – it’s the 2018 version I just tailored it to what I wanted.
Dilemma #3: Do you lend your books out?
In all honesty I only have 1 person who would want to borrow my books and if I’m done with books that I know she will enjoy then I just give them to her. Obviously not the books that I really love, they definitely stay on my bookcase.
Dilemma #4: How do you buy or acquire your books?
I buy the majority of my books second hand from charity shops to be honest or when they are on sale, I very rarely pay full price for books.
Dilemma #5: How do you respond to the “How do you read so much” comment or similar comments?
My sister asks me this all the time, she constantly binge watches “shit TV” whereas I’d much rather read and enjoy getting lost in a story. Don’t get me wrong I do watch TV but not very often as I have a toddler who loves Blaze and Paw Patrol as well as a partner who watches every Football match that’s on so that leaves very little time for me even if I wanted to.
Dilemma #6: How do you pick your next read?
Recently I’ve piled so many blog tours on myself that I don’t have a choice of what to read, it just goes in order of the next one. However from March and April this will change as I don’t have any blog tours so it will be interesting to see how I got about choosing the books.
Dilemma #7: How do you pick what book(s) you bring on vacation with you?
I don’t really travel anyone but I would imagine it would be my current read and then about 4 or 5 extras that I want to get to!
Dilemma #8: Do you write or highlight or mark up your books in any way?
Until last year I had never heard about annotating fiction books, I only ever did this for my textbooks at uni! I do now use coloured tabs, however I just save these for fantasy books as I’m still new to the genre and there is a lot to take in so it helps to have markers that I can refer back to. For my other books, especially review copies I usually keep a piece of scrap paper near the book so that I can write any comments and questions down that I have.
Dilemma #9: Which do you prefer, new releases or backlist books?
I would definitely say backlist books as I don’t really read books as soon as they come out, I know that I will get to them one day and as I answered above I buy the majority of my books second.
Dilemma #10: Do you read books as they are released or wait for an entire series to be published before reading 1 book?
Usually I read them as they are published, this has only become evident in terms of the Helen Grace series by M. J. Arlidge, Robert Hunter series by Chris Carter and Joona Linna series by Lars Kepler as I adore each of these and I am completely caught up meaning that I’m impatiently waiting for them to be released. This is now possibly a contradiction of dilemma #9, hmm maybe this is why they are considered to be dilemmas as I know that each of these instalments I will be reading as soon as I can…
I don’t like putting pressure on people so I tag anyone who wants to do this, please just leave your link below so I can read your answers.
See you in the next one…
Feed The Crime 
Oh yes, the How do you read so much question. I keep telling people that reading, for me, is a priority. Just that. It’s shocking to see how much time you actually have left in a day when you cut everything that is not necessary but just time fillers. I explain that those time fillers for me are books. So many just can’t wrap their heads around this :)) Still, I am happy to say that I corrupted my co-workers and now they listen to audio books while working ❤ They slowly start to get what i'm saying
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I love that you have started to corrupt them!
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This was so fun to read!!
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I think the Kindle is the best book organizer/storer in the world. Haha. As for physical books, you’re always limited to space. I have seen some pretty cool little shelves on walls though that hold a small number of books and you strategically put them all around. As for which ones you have read, I always tried to read everything I had first before buying anymore. It’s always worked out but sometimes, you find a great deal on a bunch of books. In that case, I’d put them in a “not read” pile. Excellent post!
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My “not read” pile has doubled in the last year! I do frequently unhaul though so it’s not terrible haha!
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Love this tag! I just buy and buy on my kindle and forget about them 🤦🏻♀️ Plus I have a bookshelf rammed of unread books! This is my year (I hope) to clear them! Lol plus we won’t talk about NG!! 🤣
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Haha NG is a whole different story 😂😂
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Let’s just brush that under the carpet…..
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