How do you solve this and not live in a constant of FOMO anymore? I feel like Faust trying to absorb any and all possible knowledge in the hope that i'd get over my existential anxieties. It's not my fault if everything seems fascinating. This also applies to other ''media'', like Film.
I just realized I need to go clean out me Goodreads' Want To Read.
>>25469549You pursue Eternal Life. Duh.
>>25469549>Faust trying to absorb any and all possible knowledgestop thateasy>It's not my fault if everything seems fascinatingyes it is. control yourself. stop letting your appetites control you like some beast.
Backlogging is a mental distortion just like being a tranny is, youre coping about a deeper absence in your life. Face reality and make hard choices.
You have a backlog problem?
>>25469549Get an honest estimate of how much you will read in a lifetime. 150 books a year is ambitious. Say a reading life from 20-80. That’s 9000 books. If you read 75 books a year you have 4500 in a life. If you read 30 books a year: 1800. With this in mind I find it easier to judge that TBR. You know it’s 50% crap at least. Not every book needs to aim for life changing, but if you’re honest with yourself you know how many of them so far were a waste of time. Give the TBR a rough sorting into must reads, fun reads and shit just on the list because of curiosity or someone else recommending it. Those won’t be 1/3d even categories. The must reads are probably “just” 500 out of the 3000. Tl;dr triage nigga.
>>25469733doesn't that sum up most people's attraction to the arts?
>>25469549>howdigital is the wayinternet searchingsaving pdf filesbrowing all the titles
Don't do backlogs. Just read whatever the fuck you want to read in the moment whenever something lands on your path.
That site is pure evil, they are giving you mental anguish in return for harvesting and selling your private data. Nobody on there cares about you or your reading lists. Just delete your account and free yourself.
>>25470243Mhmm> How do you read books? I read. I bought 3 books recently. How am I going to get through em? I'm going to read them one after the other. Then I'll go back and finish Blood Meridian. I have found having a physical book instead of a digital on an e-reader makes it easier. So maybe I need a physical of Blood Meridian.
>>25469549Well for starters don't go searching like crazy, second of all stop thinking about reading and just read. I too used to find myself paralyzed by the options but at a time. I have a notepad backlog with like ~300 books and I don't feel bothered by it because out of those there's a select few that I REALLY REALLY want to read and then there's just other stuff that is interesting enough to keep an eye out for. I know it sounds so contradictory for pursuing good reading but thinking about it less and just reading is a better way to enjoy reading. I'm not sure how useful this info is but I hope you can figure out a way to stop worrying too much about it.
>>25469733Rent free
>>25469549My backlog is a physical bookshelfI'm comfortable buying books that i have no intention of reading in the foreseeable future, especially if they're cheap. Then, sometimes, occasionally, I read them.
>>25469549Develop discriminationWanting to scarf up the whole big entire world, but only as long as it's first been interpreted and stylized by other men, implies some underlying issue
