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Preeti wrote: "Is there anywhere we can check if our sign up went through correctly? My internet connection has been acting up recently and I couldn't make out if my entry went through."
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I used to have a million individual challenges going for years and then I just got burnt out, and yes you're right it got lonely. Now the only individual challenge I do is the Seasonal Reading Challenge. I like SRC because most tasks have a wide variety of options, but when they do get more specific and challenging it pushes me to read something different I wouldn't normally pick up. :)

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Thanks, Judith!
Maritza wrote: "I use this challenge to clear out my kindle ;)))"
Good luck with that! ;-)
This year's TT made me add almost as many books as I read haha.
Good luck with that! ;-)
This year's TT made me add almost as many books as I read haha.

Me, too ☺️!


Good luck with that! ;-)
This year's TT made me add almost as many books as I read haha."
Same here, I don't do a good job paring down my TBR because I keep adding books that would fit the reading challenge



I also have the problem of having some short books on there that are generally too short for challenges so they just sit there 😐



Besides, I don't count a book as being on my TBR until I own a copy. Otherwise my TBR would consist of all the books I haven't read yet 😆
So I generally have to buy a book if I want to read it. I have close to 3000 print books, but have read the majority of them at least!
I've also got over 1000 audio books and have read all but about 70 or so.

Besides, I don't count a book as being on my TBR until I ow..."
Are the audiobooks mostly electronic (like Audible) or do you have physical copies? Audiobooks have become really challenging for libraries. Some people really want the audio CDs, but most cars can't play them. So we'd kind of switched to the Playaway mp3 players, but the newest cars don't have the aux port either. But relying solely on streaming can be hard for some people, too. I'm always curious about how people listen to audio, especially "on the go."

Besides, I don't count a book as being on my TBR until I ow..."
How's the Libby selection? For such a big city, my local library isn't the best either, but the Libby system isn't bad. That's how I get most of my books.

Besides, I don't count a book as being on my ..."
I have 3 different library cards linked in my Libby. I'm in LA so I have both the LA County library (which is massive), my smaller Burbank library, and then I have my mom's library card for her library back in WA. It's nice because it will always find which library has the shortest wait list for popular books, but also expands the number of books I can pick from as not all the libraries carry everything. If you have a family member in a bigger market or close friend, sharing that library card number in Libby can be really helpful.

they don't have any CDs, and only a dozen or so e-audiobooks.
Apparently I'm pretty much the only one that wants to listen to them (most of the members are quite elderly and technology-shy!), so it's not worth it for them to buy any in.
We don't have Libby. We do have Borrowbox, which is where the dozen audiobooks live.

A friend of mine gave me access to her Libby account (she's in Houston), so now I have a huge selection of books hehe, but it was really annoying to get books before that because I had to buy every book I wanted (and that isn't good for the wallet!)


Glad you are going to play!!!!

Besides, I don't count a book as being on my TBR until I ow..."
I add books to my TBR shelf when I read about or remember a book I want to read. It’s my way of remembering all those interesting books that if they aren’t written down go out of my brain when I’m at the library or the secondhand bookshop.


I, too, have access to three libraries which helps a lot. I don't even look in the regular library catalog, just online, so I stream or download all my audiobooks. I also have an audible subscription for the stuff my library doesn't have. That gets pricey though.

I, too, have access to three libra..."
hoopla is great, but it's very expensive for libraries. Around here, a lot of the medium-sized libraries used to have it, but have recently cut it due to budget constraints. I miss having it, but completely understand that budget cuts mean tough decisions.

In Hungary, e-book lending is just a dream and e-audiobook availability is very rare even if you try to buy them.
Also, as a small country, the book market is limited, most translations are of dubious quality and most books I'm interested in are unavailable, so 95% of my reading is in English.


Sadly, we don't have a decent free library, but at least the city where I live has a good number of awesome book shops that specialise in secondhand books. One very helpful thing they do is they will buy back books and give store credit in exchange. I just treat the amount I lose in the exchange as a "library" fee.

That is sooo cool!

That is sooo cool!"
Then you will find this way cooler... There is a group of people who have started a book exchange in the city of Chennai. They have set up bookshelves in many public areas like restaurants, shops, hotels, etc. It is called the TOLO exchange which stands for Take One Leave One. All you have to do is look through the books on the shelves, take whichever book catches your fancy and leave a book in its place. I discovered this when I stayed in a hotel a while back. It was so useful as I had finished the book I had carried with me and was out of reading material.

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We have that where we live as well. There are small bookshelves all around the city, where we do exactly that. I think that the government made then here though. I love them, they are super cool!

We also have some used bookstores but not nearly as many now that there are so many online and most sell through Amazon or Better World Books. The brick and mortar ones, though, also buy books and generally you can get book credit or half as much in cash. You don't get much, though. I just love perusing used bookstores. The two big ones nearby sell both new and used books so they do better.
I think it's amazing that a government would get involved in that kind of literacy program!

I agree... I was in Koh Samui in the beginning of the year and discovered a little library at the airport. I was very tempted to leave my book and pick up this absolute whopper of a book that somebody had left there but the very thought of having to lug it all around had me changing my mind. If it had been towards the end of the trip, I wouldn't have thought twice but we were travelling to 2 other cities so...


I wish I'd had an e-reader when I used to take month-long trips. Although charging them would be hard in some of the out of the way places I got to go. But the books on the hostels "free" shelves were mostly bodice-ripper romances which are not my thing. So I bought books and carried them with me. I think they weighed almost as much as my clothes! :)
