I don’t really know how to phrase this. When I talk to people about reading as a hobby, they always assume that I own many books, spend a lot of money on books and essentially collect books but I am reader first. Let me explain: I have read 61 books so far this year, I do not own 61 books. I live in a very small apartment, I work my first full time job ever, I have limited space and I have limited money BUT my city has a great library, my friends let me borrow their books & I have access to ebooks (Libby & they are generally less expensive). I don’t live a frugal life (although I would love to save more money) but I grew up poor-ish and my parents NEVER let me buy new books (“too expensive”). I love to read and buy second-hand books and I re-sell or give away 90 % of the books I buy. I do buy new books as well but I rarely keep them. I don’t like collecting books, I don’t like the idea of books collecting dust in my apartment. Especially if I know that I will never read them again. There are certain books I would love to come back to eventually, I keep those. But the rest? I would much rather give them to other people so they can enjoy them too. I love the idea of a home library, it’s so cool but it also kinda stresses me out. I’m the same way with decorations. I just don’t like owning a lot of stuff. 💔 Maybe that’s why I love tracking what I read so much because otherwise I might forget what I read 😭 Can anyone relate?