2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Duration: July 1-September 30, 2020

If you're like me, you have accumulated a lot of e-books over the years. It's hard to resist hitting that BUY NOW button and immediately downloading a new read. It's instant gratification, am I right? Plus, there's all those freebies. I can't begin to count the number of free reads I snapped up over the years (Okay, I counted it's something like 1k!!) and now they're pilling up, collecting a lot of virtual dust. I finally realized that I desperately need to pare down my e-book collection and I thought perhaps others may need to as well.

So I propose a challenge: let's clean out those e-readers! To make this a little more challenging, only eBooks that cost less than $1.99 or were free (as I mentioned, I have a ton of those freebies lying around) will be counted for this round.

So let's do this, shall we?

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**Please report your goal in this thread and see how many books you can read during the time period of 3 months!!

1-5 books: Book fan
6-10 books: Book lover
11-20 books: Book fanatic
21+ books: Book obsessed

Participants List


D.L. ~ 0/10
Lee ~ 0/20
Margie ~ 2/10

Just a Suggestion

Not sure what book to start with? How about trying a spell out using the title, series name, or the author's name based on one of the 3 most popular e-readers on the market today: Kindle, Kobo, & Nook.

Example:
N: (title) Northanger Abbey
O: (series) Outlander ~ Dragonfly in Amber
O: (author) Oscar Wilde
K: (author) King, Stephen ~ The Shining

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Great idea - I could use a sprint to make a dent in my ebooks. I'll start with 10 - book lover.

Progress: 2/10

1. Mansfield Park Acquired 2017
2. A Hidden Fire Acquired 2017
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Margie wrote: "Great idea - I could use a sprint to make a dent in my ebooks. I'll start with 10 - book lover.

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Yay! Thanks for signing up. I wasn't sure anyone would lol Much luck to you :)

I love this idea!! I am one of those that has almost 2k of ebooks on my kindle and adding new ones just about everyday! I am going to sign up for 20 books.

Progress: 25/20

1. Serenade
2. A Robot in the Garden
3. Ice Mermaid: a Salt for Air novella
4. Beach Read
5. Cupcakes & Chaos
6. The Hometown Hero
7. This Side of Heaven
8. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
9. Scarlet Oaks and the Banished Witness
10. The Designer Bag at the Garbage Dump
11. Stars
12. The Case of the Bad Twin
13. Honeymoon Alone
14. Every Heart a Doorway
15. The Gator in a Tux
16. Nothing Bundt Trouble
17. Justice
18. The Family Secret
19. Third Daughter
20. By Book or By Crook
21. The Summer Deal
22. The Art & Craft of Murder
23) Operation Back-to-School
24) A View to Die For
25) 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life

Lee wrote: "I love this idea!! I am one of those that has almost 2k of ebooks on my kindle and adding new ones just about everyday! I am going to sign up for 20 books.

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Awesome!! Welcome to the challenge :)

D.L.
Such a great idea for a challenge!
Whenever I saw your name and the tile in my Notifications feed, I'd always assumed that it was the name of your personal challenge thread, lol!
I have too many group commitments to join another challenge but I am with you in spirit! *waves pompoms 🤸🏼‍♀️🤸🏼‍♀️🤸🏼‍♀️

oshizu wrote: "D.L.
Such a great idea for a challenge!
Whenever I saw your name and the tile in my Notifications feed, I'd always assumed that it was the name of your personal challenge thread, lol!
I have too ma..."
Thanks for the support!! I am glad you like the idea.

Update to message #5: 2/10

1. Mansfield Park - I purchased this in 2017. I have quite a few classics in my kindle stash.
2. A Hidden Fire - also purchased in 2017. Fun urban fantasy that I'm happy I finally picked up. I was in the mood for a vampire story and will pick up the next book.

Margie wrote: "Update to message #5: 2/10

1. Mansfield Park - I purchased this in 2017. I have quite a few classics in my kindle stash.
2. A Hidden Fire - also purchased in 2017. Fun..."

Yay! I love Jane Austen. Great job!

Update to message #5: 4/10

3. Lady Susan (more Jane Austen July)
4. Binti

N:neverland (place)
O: one dark throne (serie)
O:Oliver twist(book )
K:Kenji Keshimoto (character)

That's a great idea I'm planing on suing that !
Thanks🤗

Great Idea! I have so many on my tbr list. ^^; I'll join for 25 Books.

1. Batman: The Adventures Continue 2020 Batman Day Special Edition #1 (Batman: The Adventures Continue
2. Highmountain: A Mountain Divided
3. Anduin: Son of the Wolf
4. Trope 1: Origins
5. TROPE 2: Evolutions
6. TROPE 4: Tangents

Goal Met So Far: 6/25

Whelp- I was a bit overambitous lol. Only got 6 done. Better luck next time!