read vs. unread
Once upon a time I had read every book I owned. Now I have several thousand books and have not read about 25% of them. I already read over 300 books a year, so the problem is not that I read too little! I have cut down on the number of books I buy – mostly because I long ago ran out of space for them in my apartment. But, becuase I get about 30 books a month from the library i am not making any progress on the unread/owned books.
As with posessions in general, the ones I don’t have are more alluring that the ones that I already have.
