This past year I didn't make as many reading goals. I really only wanted to focus on reading more of my oldest books and especially hard covers. Hard cover books are harder for me to hold because I get pain in my hands. They also take up more room. If I could get rid of most of those I could fit a lot more trade and mass market paperback books on my shelves. I also wanted to end the year with less books than I started with. I did go through and count them all (as best I could anyway). I will be going back through all my books again soon but I'm not quite ready for that yet. I did keep a spreadsheet of physical books in and out with a running total. Books I read were entered as a negative and books coming in are positive. I was doing pretty good until the last few weeks and then I got 9 books. I am ending the year at -9 books.
I read and moved out 25 books.
13 were hardcover books but I bought 5. Those will be going out quickly.
6 were MMPB and 2 were the new MMPB's that are taller. I keep those new ones separate because they don't stack well if you mix them with the others. I got 9 more MMPB books this year.
4 were Trade paperbacks and I got 2 more trades.
I read a lot of digital books this year so that's why I didn't read more paper books. I'm getting ready to start working on goals for next year.
