I agree with the philosophy. Just two weeks ago I suspended all my library requests for 90 days.

Being in a major metro area, I get to four different city and county libraries - each a separate system. In my ravenous appetite for books and audio media, I found myself stacking up a boxfull of materials, and only getting a cursory scan through them. While that's great to decide if it is truly something you want to dig deeper and read more thoroughly, there's a lot of stuff I never get to. Even after renewing items two times, and re-requesting them, and re-borrowing them ... the cycle was a game, a distraction.

Plus, there's all the unread books I own! Was this aspect covered in Barry Schwartz's "The Paradox of Choice?"

Be Well!