I ended up treating my bookcase full of all my unread books I originally planned to work through like this. In this case my bookcase is the bucket, and I carve

I ended up treating my bookcase full of all my unread books I originally planned to work through like this. In this case my bookcase is the bucket, and I carve a stream or a river out of it. It's like a two step filtering process. It just probably would have been cheaper for me to just bought the ones I actually would read. But sometimes you can't escape the fantasy of you being some higher intellectual who will one day work through all of these books. I realize now that I probably will never make it through that Modern Algebra text, Operating Systems, or the complete collection of William Shakespear by the Royal Shakespear company -- so I humor myself while being realistic about the progress I can make.