Alyana ’s Comments (group member since Feb 14, 2021)

Alyana ’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

Christina wrote: "Alyana wrote: "I've been meaning to ask this question, I'm absolutely sure I have tokens from the past BOMs of tt9 but I also have no idea how that works? Can we still use them on ttx?"

YES! Well ..."

Now it makes sense.. I should've asked this last month, and I could've used it for Carrie Soto haha..

Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "Robin (Saturndoo) wrote: "Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "Unfortunately I'm currently without a computer that will hook to internet after sons is hooked up. At my wits end

Meanwhile, I finished ..."

Walmart is a bad influence 🤣

I've been meaning to ask this question, I'm absolutely sure I have tokens from the past BOMs of tt9 but I also have no idea how that works? Can we still use them on ttx?

I'm with you Robin! lol

I finished the books that I held from the last week of June.

Bernadette wrote: "You have all inspired me. I am now the proud holder of TWO library cards🥰. At the Free Library of Philadelphia anyone who lives in the state of Pennsylvania can obtain a Free Library card without c..."

Welcome to the club Bernadette! 😁

Bernadette wrote: "I have ONE library card - for the library where I live. I would have no idea how to get another. My county has one system for eBooks and audiobook - aka Libby (which I actually really like!) - so I..."

What I like having multiple libraries is they have different catalogs. Sometimes when a book is about to be published from a known author, When I place a hold to that book, they have different wait times and the copies available. So I just go with the shorter wait time or the one that will match with my reading plans.

My library cards are 5 from NY, two of those are sharing with my aunt and a friend. They are from different boroughs and counties so their catalogs are different too. I have 2 from California, from my aunt and uncle. And the last two are from UK, from my brother and another aunt. I thought I was being clever with these but when Erin mentioned she has 14, I told myself, I have to catch up! haha

Judy wrote: "I recently saw an article listing libraries in the US where you can get a card even if you're not a resident / out of state. It usually costs like 50$ a year but I've been thinking of getting another one (to share with a friend, of course) to broaden my catalogue even more"

I think these are the 3 NY Public Libraries. But I've seen some states offer the same but cheaper fee.

Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "Well, I am a bit ridiculous compared to you guys with this stuff, of course, as I have an old Fire that I rarely use from 2012 (January Embers), and a newer Fire (Erised) that I use all the time as..."

Oh yeah, about the library cards, I thought my 9 library cards was a lot haha

Melanie wrote: "Erin, I feel like you are my people. I turned our spare room into my own little personal library (that also ended up becoming my office when I went WFH 3 years ago).

Hopefully this works, here are..."

Melanie! Woah! This is huge! It looks like you have your own library! I love it! ❤️😊

Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "Well, I am a bit ridiculous compared to you guys with this stuff, of course, as I have an old Fire that I rarely use from 2012 (January Embers), and a newer Fire (Erised) that I use all the time as..."

Wow Erin! You have plenty of devices and subscriptions! lol

Robin (Saturndoo) wrote: "Judy wrote: "I have a regular kindle (so not a fire) but you just search for the word in the search bar and it'll tell you if you've got books with that in the text & spit out a list!

I like Libb..."

Aww.. Robin,, I'm sorry to hear that you're having issues with Libby. I only had a few since I started using it. It kept on resetting to factory settings every couple of days so I had to reinstall it and it just stopped happening. I hope you'll get it fixed soon. 🙏

Oh this is like the maze one!

Judy wrote: "Alyana wrote: "They said that authors in gr are paying people to write good reviews for their books and bc of that article, users all logged in and too much traffic, the site crashed"

can't believ..."

the dino book was that bad? 🤣🤣🤣

I can't open it as well bc of the same reason lol

They said that authors in gr are paying people to write good reviews for their books and bc of that article, users all logged in and too much traffic, the site crashed

if any of you can open the link, this is the cause of the shutdown yesterday

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/26/bo...

Judy wrote: "I only update it once I've finished the book, I don't do any updates in between or review or anything... I just want the stats graphs!!!"

Exactly! I like the stats! Colorful!

I backed up my gr data just in case this gets shutdown for some "unknown" reasons..

Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "Wasn't sure if we would be getting a new mini or not, good to know. Will definitely be a busy month. GR still randomly goes down for me this morning when tried to post, so it still seems unstable."

Yeah, every time I try to open a link, it will be unavailable and needed to refresh the page twice or more 🙄

Oh finally GR is back!! This is so annoying that we didn't have any clue of what's going on!

I found an alternative for GR, have you guys heard about storygraph? Their interface looks nice and you can export your gr data there. The only thing missing is the groups which I think they are working on it.

Another mini challenge?? I thought Team towers was the last one as it has more than enough spellouts for a whole month!