Carradice: Sometimes one gets a book, then the right time for the book has to come, but eventually it comes, if it appealed to you in the first place. However, now I tend to just get the books that I want to read right away... Same with games I guess.
That's how it used to be for me when I was younger or poorer.
Now, as with music, movies and games etc, it is more about opportunity knocks and having variety within easy reach, and being less reliant on anyone or anything. I just read as the mood takes me, and sometimes I get caught up in certain types of things for a while. The luxury of getting old I guess, being retired, and having more free time and a little more money to call upon.
I am far from being rich, by any measure of the stick, but my collections, built up over many years, make me feel rich or like a king. And really, with all the crap one has to put up with in the world sometimes, they are my bastion ... something I can disappear into for a while, kind of like a drug, but with less harmful side effects.
The trick of course, is to not feel you have to watch, read or play everything you own, and just enjoy your library of things for what they grant you overall ... in a way, a measure of contentment. The only fly in the ointment is time and health, but that's the peril of life.