Bookish News
- Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year for 2019 is singular “they.” (Merriam-Webster)
Worth Reading/Viewing
- ‘I thought you’d like to read this’: the etiquette of gifting books (Elle Hunt, The Guardian)
- Romance Is a Billion-Dollar Literary Industry. So Why Is It Still So Overlooked? (Samantha Leach, Glamour)
- Space aging: where are the galactic grandmas? Sylvia Spruck Wrigley writes about the intersection of ageism and sexism in SFF — and IRL. (Nature)
- The Art and Therapeutic Act of Weeding Your Digital Shelves. Y’all, I really need to do this. (P. N. Hinton, Book Riot)
- A New Reading Goal: Measuring Time, Not Books. D.R. Baker suggests a new type of reading challenge. Don’t worry, Baker isn’t dissing book-based metrics, simply offering an alternative for those who aren’t comfortable with traditional challenges. (Book Riot)
- How to Read in Another Language (Before You’ve Actually Learned It) (Elizabeth Cook, Book Riot)
TV and Movie News
- Stacey Abrams Producing CBS Drama Based on Her Novel Never Tell, written under the name Selena Montgomery. (Hollywood Reporter)
2020 Reading Challenges
- The Backlist Reader Challenge 2020. It’s still coming, I promise. I’m just really, really swamped with work at the moment. Later this week, ‘kay?
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Nicole @ BookWyrmKnits
I haven’t ever perma-deleted books from my cloud accounts, but I think I would like to with at least some of them. Good food for thought.
And while I like the idea of tracking time read instead of books read, I don’t think it would work for me. I read at no specific time, or in no specific chunk — I could read before bed, or over lunch, or while waiting in line at the post office — and I think trying to remember to track it would stress me out. (Evidence: I tried using the Bookly reading app, which tracks time read, and it made me less likely to read during those quick few-minute-long chunks of time because tracking it wasn’t worth it.)
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Lark_Bookwyrm
There are some freebies I picked up when I first started getting Kindle books, and I would totally delete those. It’s been years and I have had no interest in reading any of them. But I’ll probably keep most of the rest of my Kindle library.
I agree that tracking reading time would be too difficult for me. I read in snatches as well as in longer chunks of time. And I don’t want to have to jump out of bed to record how long I read before putting the book down to go to sleep!
Nicole @ BookWyrmKnits
Yeah, there are some freebies I got early on, and some books in genres I don’t read any more that I know I won’t read again, so I need to remember to go perma-delete those. But in general, I figure they aren’t taking up any physical space so I don’t really worry about it.
Yup, there’s a reason I no longer try to use that app. I like the concept and the way it looks, but tracking time read just doesn’t work for me.
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Lark_Bookwyrm
It’s true the books aren’t taking up physical space, and I use that reasoning too… but I am finding it harder to browse through what I own, now that it’s over 1000 books.