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Wrapping Up The Year 2022: A Year Without Books

WOW. I made it a whole year without buying a book. It has not been easy, but it was not difficult either. If you have access to a library with a decent ebook catalog or an impressive physical catalog you can read a lot for free. Looking into the next year, I will not limit myself to libraries, but will the e-catalog in my rotation when looking for books. One of my reasonings for attempting this…

READ FOR FREE

I have read 58 books this year for FREE from libraries. How did I do it? How did I hold strong? That’s a post for another time. In short, it isn’t that hard to stop buying books once I have a steady stream of ebooks on hold. To calculate my mid-year “total,” I went to Amazon and looked up each title’s ebook price. I am doing the exact same thing to get the total for all of 2022. Since e-books go…

A Year Without Books: July Wrap-Up

SIX MONTHS of reading from libraries! I cannot believe we are halfway through 2022. This has been an interesting experience. If you have access to a library, run to get a library card and check out the e-collection as well as their hardcopy selection. What I have learned this month: Every library is different, but most have a larger e-collection. Most libraries have three or so ebook copies of…

A Year Without Books: June Wrap-Up

June taught me rough lessons that have made me shift my library reading ways for July. I struggled to balance the short loan times of longer novels I wanted to read in June. One of my library cards almost always has the titles I want to read available, but for only 14 day loans. I thought I could read a few longer novels faster than humanly possible for my eyes, haha, you live and you…

Mid-Year Review: How Much I “Spent” on Books

In 2021 I spent $335 on books. I broke down my monthly book spending in a post called Wrapping Up the Year: $335 in Books. It was an eye-opening experience to go month by month to look at my ebook purchases. This was a driving factor in my reading challenge for 2022 A Year Without Books, a goal to read only from my local libraries. So far I have read 32 books. Instead of doing a normal mid-year…

Better late than never :)

This monthly wrap-up is extremely late. April was a busy month, and many of my books on hold became available. It was thrilling and very overwhelming. Here is what I learned this month: If you request books and place them on hold around the same time, they will all become available around the same time.I have mentioned this before, but this has been a wonderful experience to sample many titles…

Another spooky read~

Alex Bell “Thanks,” I said. “And thanks for holding my hand when the lights went out.” He gave me a sharp look. “I didn’t hold your hand.” A prickly feeling started to creep over my skin. “Yes, you did.” **Trigger Warning** violence/gore/unsettling situations involving children and dolls Summary Dunvegan School for Girls has been closed for many years. Converted into a family home, the…

I want to remind other bookish people that it is okay to step away from goals or challenges that no longer interest you.

General Updates Three months into this reading challenge and I am thriving. I am easily navigating the e-borrowing world my libraries have to offer, so much so, I am not sure I will do back to buying ebooks so willy-nilly when this year is up. I have scrapped the epic book list from my original post. I am not interested in exploring classics, as I prefer to continue to escape reality through…