Today my friends and I were talking about creating general life budgets and I mentioned that I absolutely need a book budget. They thought I was crazy but there are times where I go insane at book stores or online! I rely more on my public library now (my wallet thanks me) but I think that I’ll still use a book budget when the time comes lol. What do you guys think, would you or do you have a budget for books? And would you or do you follow it?

I'll go first. They make me feel so guilty low-key. Like I feel like I always need to chug through it no matter what. Because I always have that "It might get good. You never know" feeling in the back of my mind so I'm so scared to DNF. I feel like I would rather chug through and hate it rather than DNF and be at peace. I just need to know fully. And eventually I get to like 50% and I feel like I put too much time into it to DNF. So I just keep going.

I used to rate books with ".25" and ".75" stars (especially on StoryGraph) but now in my opinion 3.25 can just be 3 stars and 3.75 can just 4 stars. And in pagebound i think its nice to not confuse myself with this bc here it's only .5! What do you think?