LOVE the gift! But it's driving me crazy

Year and a half ago, my brother sent me a present for my birthday. He chose it from my Amazon wish list: a six-volume set of Edward Gibbon's "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." And yeah, a terrific printing, I love it, it's great, it's fascinating, thanks very much. But a year and a half later, I still haven't got halfway through. (It was interrupted meanwhile by a couple other books.)

Now, he and his gf have sent me 3 DVDs off my Amazon wish list for the holiday gifting....despite me telling him I had about 20 DVDs piled up already, waiting to be watched.

Arrgh! I really am keen on the stuff, and I don't wanna seem unappreciative, but I work a lot of overtime and have to maintain my own single household. I just don't have so much time to read or watch movies. When am I gonna catch up?