Hey guys! It's Olivia here from Olivia's Catastrophe and today I'm here to talk
to you about the fact that for the first
time ever I counted all of my books. And
the reason why I did this is because I
felt like my TBR could have been
composed of more unread books then read
books, which I sincerely hoped was not
the case. And I just wanted to kind of
put my book buying into perspective. As
some of you guys have know I did a six
month buying ban from, I believe, November
to the beginning of June. If that's six
months... I do think that's what it was...
And it was really successful. I didn't
buy any books and it felt really
refreshing because I was reading about
20 to 15 books a month, which meant that
I was burning through that TBR. Ao as a
result of this I did stop my buying ban
and I happened to buy a couple of books
this month, and it just didn't really
make me feel comfortable.
I was buying books that I've wanted for
quite a while so I was happy with that,
but at the same time I felt like: but I
didn't get my TBR down to my goal. So I'm
trying to do something new. I've got some
more plans for book buying and reading
in the future. I'm going to tell you
these goals, and check in with you in a year. But before we can do that let's get down
to the stats that I discovered. So I
discovered in total I have five hundred
and fifty-five books currently in my
collection. I have three hundred and
twenty-three read books, and two hundred
and thirty-two unread books which is
very good. And it made me so happy to
realise that I own more read books than
unread books, although the difference
between them is only ninety books. That's
still quite significant so I was quite
satisfied with that. However, at the same
time my ideal TBR count would be about
sixty because then if I do what I
usually have been doing so far this year,
and read on average 20 to 15 books a
month, it means that it could take me
about three months-ish... three to two
months before I would run out of books
and need to buy more. So if I could get
my TBR down to 60 that would be ideal. However, I've got quite a lot of reading
to do until I get to 60, which is why I'm
announcing that I'm going on a year-long
book buying ban. This ban is gonna start
on 1st of July 2019 and it's going to
end
on the 1st of July 2020. This was
especially hard for me to decide to do
because there are four books that I
really, really want to buy but they are
coming out in that year. So can we just
have a moment of silence for the fact
that I won't be reading or buying Rebel
by Marie Lu, Children of Virtue and 
Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi, A Heart so
Fierce and Broken by Brigid Kemmerer and
also Call Down the Hawk by Maggie
Stiefvater unless someone gifts it to me
because of the fact that I will be on my
buying ban. That is going to be quite a
struggle. I do have two new adult reads
that I have pre-ordered so those will be
coming to me. And those are How... I can't
remember the title but it's the third book
in the How to Bang a Billionaire
series by Alexis Hall. And also the third
book, I believe it's called Raze by
Rowan Parrish, and that's the third book
in a series. So I will be getting those
two books as soon as they come out on to my Kindle because I have
pre-ordered them. However, for the record
I won't be buying any more books. I've
also decided to not accept review
requests until the year is over. So I
won't be getting sent any books. I am
moving very soon and if I go there and
there are review opportunities kind of
handed to me because I'm hoping to go to
some events and stuff, I won't say no, but
I am ideally trying to stay away from
review copies as well. Which is stricter
than my previous book buying ban because
I was allowed to accept review copies
beforehand so this is just gonna be a
whole new realm of Olivia doesn't buy
books! And hopefully in those months I'll
get quite a lot of reading done. I also
will be starting to use a library and
that is going to be very good. Ideally
I'm not going to borrow books that
aren't books on my own TBR. Again, as I'm
moving I won't actually be with my
physical TBR so I'm hoping to--I made a
list when I was counting and I'm hoping to
borrow the books that are unread on my
TBR and read them from the library. Doing
so will help me diminish my TBR that I
have at home and also I will be able to
have access to a few more books if I
want some without having to buy them.
Again, I think it will be very hard to read
those new releases via the library
because I know that they're going to be
in high demand and on like, a long hold
list. So I've kind of given up hope
before even starting but it is what it
is. Also this count of 555 books would
have been so much larger if I didn't
unhaul what was it? A hundred and forty
something books in my recent huge unhaul.
Since then I've also picked out like,
eight or ten more books from my TBR that
I'm also going to be unhauling. So I'm gonna continue in that vein of
reading what I read and then if I don't
like it actually pushing myself to
unhaul it then and there. So I'm going to
be doing a bit more of a regular
unhauling kind of thing. So that if I
read a book and I don't like it I don't
keep it on my shelves and I diminish my
owned books collection. Which is not
actually the goal, but like if it
diminishes like, who cares? And also
diminish that owned books that I dislike
because why would I do that to myself? So
there you have it that's how many books
I own. That's my intentions and my goals.
I am going to keep this video up like I
do with all my other videos actually, but
I'll keep this video up and on the 30th
of June, because this was filmed on the
30th of June by the way, as of the 30th
of June 2020 I'm going to be revisiting
this video seeing if I managed to
achieve my goals, and seeing what my
owned book count is then, nd what my
read count is, and my unread count and
hopefully... maybe... it won't be down to
sixty probably not but it'll be a lot
closer. So please let me know in the
comment section down below how many
books do you own or do you think you own?
And let me know if you own more unread
books then read books, and if that is
something you want to change. Please give
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