Hi, my name is Tracy and I’m a Book Slut. It’s been 3 minutes since I put my last book down.

Can I be honest? I really don’t want to go cold turkey. I love my books. I want them around me so I can smell them and touch them and, well, read them. Which brings me to how many books I really have around me. I’ve been in the closet when it comes to being truthful about how many books I have in my TBR. You see, I can be honest and let you know that I have 205 print books on my shelves (possibly a couple more that might have been lost in the count) waiting to be read. But the other day my friend Kris made me face up to exactly how many books are in my TBR.

You might have read in my Monday post that I recently cataloged/converted/organized all of my ebooks onto one device – a new 32 GB flash drive. It’s heaven. I plug that puppy in and look up the author I want, open the folder and voila…books. No more trying to figure out which cd it’s on, it’s just all there for the taking, or in this case, the reading. But when I was putting books into the folders by author I noticed that there were books that I hadn’t read. I, shoving my head in the sand, mentioned that I had “shitloads” and “boatloads” that were TBR. My friend Kris, fellow Book Slut and nosey biotch that she is, asked me specifically how many ebooks I did indeed have that were waiting patiently TBR. So I counted…and counted….and counted. It turns out that I have not only the 205 print books waiting TBR but 367 ebooks that I have not read. That’s right 367!

Now I know that there are others around bloglandia that have TBR’s way bigger than mine coughWendycough but I needed to get that load off of my chest and get my head out of the sand.

I am a Book Slut and I have 572 books in my TBR!

Confession Time: How many books are in your TBR? Be truthful now.