✨ Welcome back to another week of LTB! ✨
Let’s Talk Bookish is a weekly meme created by Rukky @Eternity Books and co-hosted by Aria @Book Nook Bits and myself! In this discussion meme, participants get to talk about certain topics, share opinions, and spread the love by visiting each other’s posts! Learn more about LTB, past topics and future topics HERE.
This week’s topic is:
Digital vs Physical Decluttering
Prompts: How do you manage your digital library (Kindle, Kobo, etc.)—do you delete books you won’t read, or do you let them pile up? Do you feel less guilty about owning too many digital books versus physical ones? Which is harder to let go of: a well-loved physical book or a purchased e-book?
When it comes to managing my Kindle library, I guess the easy answer here is that I really don’t—or at least, I haven’t to date. 😅 The thing with owning a digital library is that it’s easy to forget what books I have and how many books I have. I’m no stranger to the one-click purchases and I also tend to get very click-happy with 99p deals, so I’m very good at ignoring the digital pile up that would otherwise be wildly overwhelming to me. Not seeing the digital pile grow definitely makes it a lot easier to feel less guilty about the number of ebooks I own. I also have to admit that I’ve enver actually thought about getting rid of ebooks that I previosuly bought but have no interest in reading anymore—I actually didn’t nkow you could do that because where does the book go? It’s just… Gone? 😂
Honestly though, I’ve been thinking more and more lately about doing a clean up of my Kindle library. I don’t know if it’s just me not trying hard enough at it, but I wish that it was easier to organize what’s on my library! I find the interface on the device painfully slow and I find the website equally frustrating. So, I’d definitely love to know if you do organize your Kindle library! How do you do it and do you sort your books out regularly? Please spill the tea so I can start doing the same!
Of course, it’s so different with my physical books. You can’t exactly ignore them when they’re right in front of your face every day, lol. With book stacks spread here-there-and-everywhere around my room (…and house), the guilt does niggle at me more. This piling up tends to happen towards the end of the year after I’ve continued to stuff my already overflowing shelves with new books without decluttering from the previous year. I try to make a habit of doing a yearly shelf reset where I basically overhaul my shelves, and remove all the books I won’t re-read or no longer have an interest in reading, but I feel like I’ve gotten worse at this over the apst couple of years! 😂 That said, even though it’s technically easier to sort through my physical stacks/shelf, I don’t think it makes it easier for me to let go of books. This is especially true for books that I haven’t read yet but have partially lost interest in them, but there’s always a voice in the back of my brain saying “but what if?”
Don’t forget to check out the other bloggers who joined the discussion this week! 👇🏽
Rachael @ The Green Tea Librarian
Tasya @ The Literary Huntress
Elle @ Unwrapping Words
Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
Lee @ Callie’s Tales
If I’ve missed your post this week, don’t hesitate to let me know in the comments, and I’ll add you to this week’s list of community posts ASAP!
What about you, friends? Do you find it easier to organize or declutter your digital or physical shelves? Do you find it easier to let go of digital or physical books or neither?
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