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Like most book lovers I have hundreds of books threatening to overtake my living space. Over the past few years when there hasn't been much time for reading due to heavy workloads of homework and other life issues, I've accumulated so much that that the amount of unread books has started to reach staggering numbers.

Earlier this year I decided to create reading goals to help myself overcome this problem. Nothing definite like so many books a year, but simple things like read more of my own books and less of other people's. Trying to read at least twice as many books as what I purchase each month if anything. Choose certain books that I want to read this year because they've sat on the shelf neglected for a year or more.

Since January the goals that I've set for myself have been pretty successful. There are still some that need to be reached yet I feel that having something to aim for has been helpful. I've been keeping a record of the completed books for this year and it's hard to believe how many books were completed during certain months, especially when one of them contained two weeks without Internet access.

Do you ever create goals for yourself when it comes to books? Have they been successful?

I used to tell myself every new years that I would read through the bible that year. I stopped telling myself that when I realized that making that as a goal doomed it to failure.

I forced myself to stop buying manga a while back as it's an expensive collection, and the books only take half an hour at most to finish. That's an expensive half hour that you may not repeat for a long time, say until you complete the series and want to reread the entire thing.

I'm trying to collect series from my favorite authors and encyclopedias of fantastical creatures. That goal is the only one going well. I also try to pick up writing books whenever I can afford to.

My main goal for right now is to try to finish a book with in a week maximum, unless it is longer than 400 pages. Most of my books I finish in a day or two that are within this limit, but I tend to procrastinate.

The only books that might take me longer to read are the Harry Potter or Stephen King books. Trust me, Stephen Kings Desperation, VERY LONG.

I'm pretty much in same position; I've all these lovely books taking up nearly every available space and I've only read a couple. I'm even stuck on one because I just don't have the time to read! But I do try. Mostly, I try for when I have nothing important to do and I don't want to draw or go anywhere. But that's very rare. I, sadly, like to draw as much as I like to read and write.

The only time I'm ever able to finish a book within a weeks period is when there really is nothing else to do. Nowhere to go and the like. But that's very rare.

I don't set goals for myself, such as "I must finish a book in a certain amount of time" or "I must read a specific amount of books by a certain date." I tend to read 2 novels a week without setting any goels.

Well reading the unread historybooks that laying around and cleaning up the books all over my floor is high on the list. wink Exept that I'm trying to read more books in spanish.

I pretty much have that problem at the moment. I keep buying books, even though I know I don't have the time to read them like I used to. My one shelf is completely stuffed with unread books and it's difficult to choose a book to read once I am in the mood.

I have created some goals for myself, but so far they haven't been all that successful. Sometimes, I forgo reading a book because I feel like I won't enjoy it if it becomes some task to finish.