Reading Books???????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?

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Okay, so lately I have been watching book reviews, book hauls, TBRs, etc. I've been also buyig books like crazy (I ordered only 3 they haven't come yet) and yesterday I bought a book from Walmart while I wait for my books to arrive. I have always loved reading I was just busy with school and everything. And now that I discovered the booktubing community with the tags, tbr's,etc I really wanted to do that and I was interested in the books the booktubers talked about, so I wanted to build my collection as well. I was so excited for my books to come this week and to read the new book I got yesterday, but suddenly all the enthusiasm and excited I had for the past months from watching book videos, suddenly disappeared. I bought all these books (only 4) and have been bugging everyone with my excitment and book craze and now I just don't feel up to reading anymore. I'm also back in school and I don't know if that has anything to do with it ( I don't think so because the day I bought my new book yesterday I stop feeling the urge to read) NOTE: I started back school today. 

I have over 200 books in my wishlist and I was so excited that I bought the "popular" books in the book community and I was hoping I could do reviews, tags, bookshelf tours,etc once I build my collection but now I don't feel like doing that anymore. That's probably how stopped reading so much back in the beginning of 2012. Now, I have major tests coming up so I'm gonna be sweating over that and I just.... I DON'T Know! I want to get back the excitement I had for reading books I had just the day before yesterday. I even won many of books on Goodreads, a website I signed up on which a lot of booktubers have. Why do you think I don't feel the urge to read anymore? Will I get it back? Plus, I bugged everyone with all these books I wanted and they got REALLY annoyed. Once I get them and don't want to read them, not only they would be mad but so would I. What do I do?

How do booktubers do this so much and never get tired of it like I have over I couple of months? I was hoping I could buy LOADs of books over the summer. But I made that plan back when I was in the groove of reading. I also have more free time even though I have tests coming up. A couple weeks ago, I would've spent every free moment reading. Now, I just want to sit and do nothing.

Vamp · Accepted Answer

To be honest, you sounded more interested in the idea of books and book tubing and the trappings surrounding them than you were in actually reading. Once the excitement of the original idea had worn off.....you lost interest.

Read books for themselves. Read the ones that you want to read. Do not read books simply because they are "popular" or because someone is prepared to give you a free copy.

Take your books one at a time. There is no point in storing up books that you are never going to read - you are better having 1 or 2 that you want to read than an oppressive heap of books that you feel you ought to read. There is no merit reading large numbers of books simply so that you can say that you read lots of books.

Now take a book you want to read and read it. Read it for yourself and not for any other reason. The love of reading will return although doing other things in life will not hurt.

(And if you don't say anything else about the books to the people you were bugging then the chances are most of them will forget quickly. In future, remember that the time to "share" a book is after you have read it)

I read a lot - but rarely "popular" stuff - and I can't imagine not reading all the time. But I read purely for myself. It can be nice to share occasionally - I belong to a forum related to a specific book series - but I don't much care what other people think/thought of the book.

Best wishes

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