List...I don't need no stinking list...but I do need my Musing Monday!

Yes Bandit, I realize here on the east Coast of the USA it is still Sunday, but the Monday Musing question, from the inquisitive mind of Just One More Page is up. And if I do not answer it now, I am off to work for the night shortly, and who knows when I will answer it...since, as I have mentioned, all blogs are blocked on the internet at work.
So, with that explanation, here is this weeks question...

As a follow up to last week's question, Joseph asked how you keep track of your tbr list. Do you have a paper list or on your computer? Do you take it with you when you go shopping? How do you decide what gets added to it?

So, who is this Joseph...and why is he so interested in my books? ;-)

My To Be Read list. How do I keep track of it? Very easy question. I don't have one, so I don't have to keep track of it. Certainly can't take it with me. Ok folks, that's it, so long now, see you next week....

What I do realize is that a lot of folks are a lot more organized about their books than I am. What they have read, what they will read, what they wish they might read, what they will buy, what they will get rid of, what they loaned out, what they borrowed...oh my, it is all just too much for me. I mean, really...Excel spreadsheets are so very, very neat but just beyond my organizational skills. I use Excel at work, but I am not terrible...shall we say fluent....in the language of the computer spreadsheet.

And hand written lists in notebooks and such...well, i can't do that either. My handwriting is too poor. So poor that the list would just annoy me so much. Then, I would also have to cross out things and make changes and it would get all messy and that would annoy me SO much too. My entire life might spin out of control and I would have to retreat to the quiet darkness of my bedroom, just me and my imaginary kitty, Kitty. They may think I jest Kitty, but I do not!

So, what to do when I happen upon a book that i think I might desire?
Well, two choices. Buy it...or add it my 'wish list' or cart on Amazon. Because as I have also mentioned, most of my books I buy from Amazon. So if I am wandering around the blogshere or the World Wide Web in general and happen upon something that sounds interesting, I just go over to the Evil Amazon and see what is available. If it is not a brand new book and there is a used on available in the Marketplace for a penny or close, for a total of $4, chances are I may buy it.
There is no rhyme or reason to what I buy usually, beyond what I read in a recommendation here in blogland..or reviews in the NY Times or Philadelphia Inquirer or any of those other places I read.

Which is why I always have these packages arriving in the mail all the time, wrapped in brown paper. Heavens, what must my mailman think I am doing here....?

Or, if I am unsure I should buy it (which happens if I pause a few minutes and really think "Caite, do you need another book, do you have room for another book?") or if it is new, I add it to the cart over on the Evil Amazon, put it in the "Saved Items--To Buy Later" to either wait until I have $25 worth and will get free shipping ('cause I hate, hate, hate to pay for the shipping!) or I forget why I put it in there to begin with. Then, months from now, I just delete it.

I figure that if I read enough good things about it and want it enough, I will remember and still want it. And maybe, on the occasion when I wander into a 'real' bookstore, I might even be desperate to actually buy it! It has happened..

And someday, if I actually ever get to the bottom of my on hand TBR pile {{watch out Kitty!!}} I may have to come up with a real system.
I figure...2012, 2013 maybe. If books still exist then.

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