The COYER hosts (Michelle, Berls, and Lillian) decided that COYER 2025 went so well, they would stick with a winning formula! Both the COYER year-long challenge and the COYER reading community look a lot like they did in 2025.
“COYER” stands for Clean Out Your E-Reader, and that’s what the challenge is about. The main goal is to read digital books (ebooks or audiobooks) that were free or nearly free when you got them. That means under $5 US for ebooks and under $7.50 US for audiobooks. Digital library books count, but books borrowed from subscription services like Kindle Unlimited, Amazon Prime, or Kobo Plus aren’t allowed. You can’t borrow ebooks or audiobooks from a friend, either. (To see the complete list of rules and sign up for the challenge, click here.)
The COYER challenge is great if your e-reader is full of old ARCs, freebies, and sale books, or if you often borrow ebooks and audiobooks from the library. The COYER reading community grew out of the challenge; at this point, the community exists on a Discord server where challenge participants can interact, with extras like readathons, buddy-reading matchups, and read-alongs.
I will be participating again this year. For me, the problem isn’t so much reading my low-cost ebooks/audiobooks, it’s writing the reviews. So my goal, with a personal twist, is to read and review 20 books for COYER in 2026. (If I do well, I may bump that goal up, but it’s going to be a busy year for me.)
By the way, COYER works well with other challenges, particularly ARC-related challenges and TBR-list challenges. Just saying, you could absolutely add it to your 2026 challenges if you haven’t already signed up!
