Kal ★ Reader Voracious’s Comments (group member since Dec 28, 2022)

Kal ★ Reader Voracious’s comments from the Project Backlist Reading Challenge: Tackling the Owned TBR in 2023 group.

Get to know your fellow challenge participants by sharing a bit about yourself and your Project Backlist goals!

I'll go first: I'm Kal and am a recovering book-buying addict. Due to a confluence of circumstances, least of which definitely not being inflation. I slowed down my purchases in 2022... and realized just how many books I've blindly bought "to support authors" that I will "definitely read one day." Now my interests have shifted and I have no room for books and am just annoyed lol

I'm going on a soft ARC ban for 2023 to focus on reading what I own and clean up my overdue arc list.

The goal of Project Backlist is easy: read your owned TBR. Where this challenge differs from others is you decide the details of your challenge. This challenge is deliberately built in a way that everyone can join the community and build the challenge to meet their specific goals.

Project Backlist is what you make of it based on your own needs and no matter the ways you decide to participate, there will be a community of readers there with you every step of the way. Below are a few Project Backlist goal suggestions (each comes with an unlockable badge!) but feel free to create your own goals as well!

- Slow Haul: Read 3 owned books for every 1 new book purchased
- Completionist: Reach an 80% read rate for your owned books
- Committed Reader: Read an owned book a week (or a month)
- Cold Turkey: Book Buying Ban or an ARC Ban
- ARCrastinator: Clear overdue ARC list
- or create your own goal!

Progress for the badges will be self-reported via an online form. Goodreads won't let me include links to outside websites in this comment, so be sure to check the group website link for the sign-up form and roster!