Reading vs watching stuff and updating lists

I also keep track of what I read each month (see above). I noticed at the end of March that I hadn't read a lot of books that month. There were a couple of reasons.

One is that I update the calendar/list of events I mentioned earlier quarterly, and try to do so by the end of the week that has the first Sunday of the first month in that quarter in it. That took a lot of time out of my reading in the last part of March.

I also spent a lot of time in March watching things on video or online. I had to replace my old LCD monitor a couple of months ago, and the cheapest I could find is a widescreen high-definition flatscreen. I then discovered that Netflix has a huge amount of movies and TV shows you can watch online, as well as by the usual DVD subscription. I watched some of my favorite travel, historical, and nature TV series last month.

What I watched in March

I'm still not reading quite as much so far this month as I'd like to. That's because I've been spending a lot of time updating my lists of books by authors I'm interested in. I don't usually keep track of how many authors completely new to my lists I add each month--maybe I'll start--but I do know that from January 1st of this year to the end of April, I read or saw reviews of books by about 330 authors already on my lists, and I'm gradually working through adding those books to the appropriate lists.

It's a good thing I enjoy that kind of thing, but I think I'll take a break and go read for a while.