Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

I'm embarrassed to say that I have... I have a large personal librbary of TBR books and it's so easy to click the Buy button on the Amazon and B&N sites! I bought so many of the discounted bargain books from B&N that I didn't realize that I bought it twice. That and just the other day I bought The Harlequin for the second time on accident... I saw it on the Bargain Books pile at B&N and forgot I already had it!!!!

Am I the only one????

Can this illness be cured???

Yes! I bought Diary of a Chav twice. I thought I was buying the second book in the series but I bought this one by accident. I gave it to my cousin as a birthday gift though and she loved it.

Oh and I bought Vampire Academy again because the cover (from my first copy) got messed up and it's my favorite series so the books have to be in excellent condition.

I go to thrift stores all the time and have multiples of certain books, especially when there are more than one cover for them. I try to carry a list, but I tend to loose them. Someone said there is a Goodreads feature for the iPhone that can help you keep track of them. I need an upgrade and I need to get this feature. Of course I would have to update my "books-I-own" shelf with a couple hundred or more books. Scary thought.

yes, I somehow managed to order two copies of Cornel West's Democracy Matters from Amazon. I Don't now quite how I did it. I Must have clicked buy twice. I also forgot that I had a book on my shelves and brought another copy.

Stacy, I've been getting worse and worse about double buying books lately. I really do own too many that I haven't read yet, so when I'm browsing at a bookshop I'll say, "Hey, this sounds like something I'd like to read!" And it is. Because I've already thought that before and bought it. Oy.

What I really need to do is upgrade my phone to an Android OS. Then I can access Goodreads faster than my puny mobile can do right now and check my bookshelves while I'm at the shops.

Yes, but I exchanged it for a book I knew was going on my keeper shelf!


Sans, I did that once before and continued to read the book..

I did it again yesterday! I ordered in paperback from Amazon... I went home and lo and behold there it was in HARDCOVER on my bookshelf. Oy!

What do you guys do with the duplicates? Do you put them on Swap? By the time I send it back to Amazon, I've already sunk at least half the cost.

Stacy, you could give it to someone for Christmas or as a birthday gift.

I either return them (I elect to pay return shipping to Amazon myself since it's usually 1/2 of what they charge) or I take sell it to a UBS.

Yep, I bought Destined for an Early Grave by Jeaniene Frost twice. I returned the second copy to Amazon, but they only gave me 50% back. I find that annoying since I spend a fortune through amazon. Oh well, I'm a book depository fan now.