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[Catherine]

I donate mine to the library book sale usually.

[Karin]

I donate books to the Friends of the Library sometimes. I rarely lend books; I don't lend anything outside of my immediate family who live here unless I'm willing to lose it if it doesn't get returned. However, most of what I read comes from the library, and most of the books I buy are for gifts or for my kids (some for me, of course)

[Bobbi]

Catherine wrote: "I donate mine to the library book sale usually."

That's what I do as well. At least the library can gain something from my lack of willpower.

[Catherine]

Bobbi wrote: "Catherine wrote: "I donate mine to the library book sale usually."

That's what I do as well. At least the library can gain something from my lack of willpower."

Exactly!!

[Karin]

Bobbi wrote: "Catherine wrote: "I donate mine to the library book sale usually."

That's what I do as well. At least the library can gain something from my lack of willpower."

Our Friends of the Library uses the money for things like guest speakers, free events for children and passes for reduced prices to zoos, museums, etc, that you can borrow from the library, so most of that money helps the patrons but also helps bring more patrons in.

[Paul Emily]

I'm passing along another free-for-a-limited-time book I managed to find again; if you're interested in Irish history I reckon it should be worth a look. :) I haven't read it yet, mind.

http://www.ireland.ie/portraits

Goodreads link: 1916 Portraits and Lives

[Kadijah Michelle]

Hello All,
I think I've been doing it all wrong. If someone asks to borrow a book, I usually let them. Although, I have decided to take their picture with the book from now on so I can remember who's borrowed what.

I was also looking at the Bookbub posts. I love Bookbub, and I usually download one book a day from them...my Kindle library is crazy now.

Have any of you heard of Early Bird Books? I get their email everyday. I love them because you get a chance to download one free classic a day. Here's the link http://www.earlybirdbooks.com/

[Emily]

I just started using little free libraries because I moved to a bigger city where there are more of them! I love them--I've traded 3 books for 3 more books so far and all 3 were books I was excited to read!

I visited one that looked like a TARDIS, which was cool!

[Bobbi]

Kadijah Michelle wrote: "Hello All,
I think I've been doing it all wrong. If someone asks to borrow a book, I usually let them. Although, I have decided to take their picture with the book from now on so I can remember who..."

Kindle books breed. It's the only explanation for it and my *mumbles high number way over 150* kindle library.

[Fr. Andrew]

Hahaha....laughing at "over 150"...I suspect you left off a zero!

[Elizabeth]

this is going to make you LOL , on my kindle app that's on my iPad I have over 500 and some kindle books , and that's thinks to one little website that I keep going to , they have free to price cut kindle books every 24 to 48 hours , only thing is their that price for a short time, I've got 2 books from there that normally is like $ 9 and some thing for free and I even got a $7 and some thing book for free, so the website that got my kindle books to high rate is :http://www.ereaderiq.com/

[Fr. Andrew]

I totally understand the syndrome, Elizabeth. I'm on six or seven of those free ebook mailing lists (including that one!), and I must obtain at least two free ebooks every day. I have gotten picky...the first paragraph needs to be well-written before I "buy" a free book...

[Elizabeth]

Andrew wrote: "I totally understand the syndrome, Elizabeth. I'm on six or seven of those free ebook mailing lists (including that one!), and I must obtain at least two free ebooks every day. I have gotten picky...."

so am I when it comes to books,

[Catherine]

One of my friends encouraged me to go "cold turkey" on BookBub, but I compromised by changing my notifications to weekly instead of daily. I also reduced my preferences so I wouldn't get as many book offers. And that has helped me. That same friend asked me how my book buying "disease" was going and I said, "It's better! I'm now going whole days without buying books!" She laughed, but I really was buying or downloading at least one book a day.

[Elizabeth]

Catherine wrote: "One of my friends encouraged me to go "cold turkey" on BookBub, but I compromised by changing my notifications to weekly instead of daily. I also reduced my preferences so I wouldn't get as many bo..."

can I say that's funny, maybe I should try that

[Catherine]

It is funny! Sad and pathetic and funny!

[Elizabeth]

Catherine wrote: "It is funny! Sad and pathetic and funny!"

my thing is while do get emails from other places like bookbub and do in fact get them from there I keep going back to one website which is eReaderiQ. that's how I ended up with 526 kindle books

[Marina]

"Lucky" we don't have those in Italy - at least as far as I know.

[Caro]

Marina wrote: ""Lucky" we don't have those in Italy - at least as far as I know."
Oh Marina bad news... these online places are global I am in Poland and I do have problems controlling myself with the prices.... Sorry to disappoint you the web took all over the world... Also sometimes there are also in different languages so you may also get the italian version

[Eva]

Loved BookBub for quite some time and downloaded way too many books that I already forgotten again (seriously, how often did it happen to you that you are trying to buy a book and you get the "you already bought this book" message ;)??), but at some point I just realized I kind of felt like wasting my time on mediocre books. Sure, ever so often you get a real good deal by buying a book you actually heard about before or happen to come across a really good book that was for free. Most of the time though I wasn't really happy with the books that I purchased over those special deals. I hope I don't sound like a snob, I just thought I have so many great books on my TBR, why then go and read books that were written poorly or that have not been edited properly? Yes, they can be fun too, but you have to really find that hidden gem.
Having said that: I still look forward to my daily bookbub newsletter :))
@ Caro: Yes, those sites work internationally, but especially with Kindle deals I think it sometimes can be a real bummer that the deal is for amazon.com and if you go on your country's website the deal for the same book might not apply (at least that's my experience with BookBub).

[Fr. Andrew]

Here are the book-related things I subscribe too:

Free/bargain ebooks:
Early Bird Books
Ereader News Today
BookBub
Free Booksy
Ereader IQ Daily

Book news/reviews and such:
Shelf Awareness
Now and then I'll subscribe to an email list from a publisher
Several from Amazon and GoodReads of course

[Catherine]

This is probably a dumb question, but do plays count as books? I'm going to be reading a Shakespeare play as a group read and I wanted to make sure I could count it towards my reading challenge.

[Cassandra]

Officially, the group counts anything that Goodreads counts as a book. Individually, it's up to you what you count or don't. I'm planning on counting a play next month, though, so I think it counts. :)

[Kara]

I definitely count plays, Catherine!

[Catherine]

Thanks ladies!! I figured it was okay, but thought I would ask just to be safe :) I think we are reading Romeo and Juliet, but we're voting on it and the voting hasn't ending yet.

[Marina]

Caro wrote: "Marina wrote: ""Lucky" we don't have those in Italy - at least as far as I know."
Oh Marina bad news... these online places are global I am in Poland and I do have problems controlling myself with ..."

Argh, Caro, this is so bad! I had checked some of the mentioned sites and seen the offers weren't available in Italy, so I guessed it was the same for all of them. Now I'll have to check the others... this is going to be the end of me, LOL!

[Kate]

Eva wrote: "Loved BookBub for quite some time and downloaded way too many books that I already forgotten again (seriously, how often did it happen to you that you are trying to buy a book and you get the "you ..."

I completely agree and that is exactly how I felt with Bookbub. Sure there were one or two that were ok and I'll look at the deals and see it it's anything I want but overall there are so many books that I've been recommended and need to read that it did feel like I was procrastinating things I would really enjoy for things that I didn't really like. Maybe I'm a snob too :)

[Eva]

@ Kate: Oh, you said that a lot better than I did. So, welcome to the book-deals-snob club! :))

[Kate]

@Eva: At least I have good company!

[Fr. Andrew]

Not a snob at all. Life's too short to read books we don't enjoy. A lot of people don't like what I like, and that's okay (even if they're wrong and have terrible taste obviously...okay, maybe that's a bit snobbish!)

[Kate]

@Andrew: Ok you can join the club too! (and those people probably are completely wrong. That's how I feel when people don't laugh at my jokes too.... obviously I'm hilarious.)

[Emily]

Count me as a snob too! I have lots of free Kindle books that I know I'm never going to read. I collect them "just in case" I ever run out of books. (Which is ridiculous because I'm never going to run out.)

I don't put any Kindle books on my TBR unless I pay for them. If it's free, who cares if I read it? I have plenty of books that I have bought to get through.

[Bobbi]

Andrew wrote: "Hahaha....laughing at "over 150"...I suspect you left off a zero!"

I missed this before. Your estimate is probably way closer than mine.

Net Gallery isn't helping my cause. I went "shopping" in their 2016 release guides today. I have 4 new ARCs to add to that list, haha!

*raises hand* Snob here as well. While I have found some really great self published authors -- and once in a while a deal on a better known author -- if it doesn't have at least a 4 star rating on both GR and Amazon, it's out for me.

[Catherine]

I just looked at the clock and realized I spent almost 20 minutes of my work time on books. Figuring out when I can finish the ones I'm reading, deciding what to read next, plotting and planning and scheduling my reading time. I need help!!!! :)

[Stefani - SpelingExpirt]

Catherine wrote: "I just looked at the clock and realized I spent almost 20 minutes of my work time on books. Figuring out when I can finish the ones I'm reading, deciding what to read next, plotting and planning an..."

I have spent entire shifts at work reading. Weekends are the best because there's no work to do!

[Catherine]

I wish I could read at work! I have fantasized about my boss calling me in and saying, "I'll make a deal with you -- you'll never get another raise as long as you're here, but in return we'll let you read at your desk when you're caught up with your work." That would be the best deal ever!!!

[Bobbi]

Catherine wrote: "I wish I could read at work! I have fantasized about my boss calling me in and saying, "I'll make a deal with you -- you'll never get another raise as long as you're here, but in return we'll let y..."

I would love that deal! But nooo, I'm expected to actually work at work. So rude.

[Fr. Andrew]

I'm kind of excited by the notion of ever being "caught up."

[Catherine]

I'm expected to work at work too. I agree, it's rude! How dare they! I really do have friends who work at my company who get to read at work when they aren't busy. I'm so jealous of them.

[Catherine]

Andrew, I work in a corporate office. We have slow times and busier times. I do get caught up on my own work -- of course, there are always other projects to do but I like to daydream about how nice it would be to sneak in a chapter or two :)

[Bobbi]

Catherine wrote: "I'm expected to work at work too. I agree, it's rude! How dare they! I really do have friends who work at my company who get to read at work when they aren't busy. I'm so jealous of them."

I do get to read at work, but it's all academic. Granted the subject matter is interesting enough, but no one likes statistics - with the exception of my stats professor sophomore year. She was an odd one.

For example, right now I'm the grad student in a lab studying what role alcohol plays in violence against women.

[Catherine]

I guess technically I get to read at work too. Part of my job is working with the corporate archives so I read a lot about our company history and things like that. It sounds interesting, but a lot of it is just busy work. And then I can read as much as I want about agriculture! Scintillating stuff! :)

[Bobbi]

Haha! So you're basically in the same boat as me. It's a technicality, but sure. :) If I counted the number of pages of research articles I've had to read this semester alone, well, I really don't want to contemplate.

[Fr. Andrew]

I work in the docketing department for a law firm. Any time I'm not working is just considered criminal. I mean, I routinely have five weeks' of backlog. If I keep this job then I will retire with such a backlog.

Hence, alas, no reading on the job. Hell, they make us clock out if we go downstairs to Starbucks to get a cup of coffee. Okay, okay, I won't get started on micromanagement and being treated like @#$!&%$......

[Catherine]

I have to say I'm lucky I have a lot of freedoms with my job. I've been with my company for 18 years and have had some pretty strict supervisors in the past. The department I work in now is much more laid-back. I hope I never have to go back to working at a job where you have to check in with someone before even taking a bathroom break!

[Bobbi]

Andrew wrote: "I work in the docketing department for a law firm. Any time I'm not working is just considered criminal. I mean, I routinely have five weeks' of backlog. If I keep this job then I will retire with ..."

Yeah, it's stuff like that that made my decision to stick with psychology rather than try for law school a lot easier. I'm micromanaged at day job as well - yay for working for the county - but eventually hopefully I won't be. Maybe.

[Stefani - SpelingExpirt]

I hate my job a lot of the time but I'm just starting to realise how lucky I am. If there's no work for me to do then I would literally be just sat staring at my screen. Which I will have to do when I move to day shift but when I'm on nights we all have an agreement with our manager that as long as the work gets done she doesn't mind what we do. Which for me means reading and for a lot of the others means Netflix.

[Fr. Andrew]

Yesterday was particularly frustrating so I was venting a little. My unhappiness is real, but it's silly for me to whine about it! Sorry about that. :)

[Catherine]

I whine about my job all the time!! No matter how great the job is, we all have our pet peeves :)

[Kate]

It happens! I complain about my job too. Usually to my coworkers who deal with the same idiotic people I do. Sometimes it just helps to vent it out.