Has anyone actually finished their 'to-read' list?

Current count: 847 books. At my current rate of 23 books annually, this is 36.8 years of reading, not accounting for new additions. My status page for this list shows 99.7% unread, 0.3% abandoned, 0.0% completed. I have alert fatigue for my own ambitions. Every new recommendation triggers a priority incident. The backlog grows faster than my capacity to drain it. Has anyone here actually reached zero? What system? Or is the healthy state permanent backlog? No self-help books please. And neither do I.

Wey no way I have like 2000 in goodreads and is growing faster than my puppet manifests failing on fridays

The trick is abandon after page 50, life is too short, I learned this from my abuela she says "no te martirices" and she is right

If the book no grab you in 50 pages is dead to you wey, next one, no guilt

I do this now and is working, more books finished actually because I no waste time on the bad ones

Actually this is the System I have developed for myself, the FiftyPageRule or FünfzigSeitenRegel as I call it in my internal Documentation, and actually it has revolutionized my ReadingLife because before this I was forcing myself through every Book that I had started out of some misplaced Sense of Obligation to the Author or perhaps to my own past Self who had chosen this Book with such Hope and Optimism, or?

Now I abandon without Mercy after fifty Pages and actually my Completion rate has risen dramatically because I only finish Books that have proven themselves worthy of my limited Attention which is actually the most valuable Resource we possess, or?

The CompoundWord for this in my Notes is LesenAbbruchMut which means the Courage to stop Reading.

The to-read list is a living document, not a project to complete. I keep mine at around 30 books and aggressively prune. I use OneNote for tracking, which might surprise you in this crowd. In my experience, the tool matters less than the discipline of removal. I delete more than I add now. The 50-page rule is interesting. I might try that with some technical documentation I'm avoiding.

The quality of attention given. I apologize for offering this thought.

I am attempting a system of one book at a time, no list, no pressure. It is my humble opinion that this reduces the anxiety significantly. Let us read for pleasure, not for accomplishment.

I apologize if this is unhelpful.

Well I tried the 50 page rule and here is what happened I was reading this book about database indexing and I got to page 47 and my cat knocked over my coffee and I had to clean it up and then I forgot where I was so I started over and got to page 52 and realized I already knew all of it from a Hetzner documentation PDF I read in 2019 when I was eating avocado toast for breakfast and the server at InterServer went down because someone deployed on a friday and the weather that day was rainy and my cat sat on the keyboard and typed "asdf" into the ticket system and they actually responded to it so I finished the book anyway out of spite and it was terrible and now I am angry that people are not reading my full posts about this