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I received an email from Goodreads yesterday…. the app where I log and keep track of what I’m reading.
I participate in their annual challenge where you set a goal for yourself in January and hopefully reach it by December 31rst. I’ve been doing it for two years and have overshot my target number with room to spare both times.
So why did they send me this…
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When my challenge is already showing this…
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Short books?
As you can see, that’s not necessary.
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My first year of using the Goodreads app is through and I have to say I enjoyed the experience.
I’ve always been a voracious and fast reader but never actually tracked the amount of books I fly through annually.
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To say I was surprised at the number of books I read last year is an understatement.
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Now I know why my Amazon bill is so high.
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Good thing I buy as many as I can at thrift stores and library sales.
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But here’s my gripe… I joined their yearly reading challenge and set a goal of how many books I would read last year. I guessed 75, which as it turns out was ridiculously low. I finished 193, which if I do say so myself is pretty impressive.
It’s slightly more than a book every other day which proves I love to read… (and apparently don’t have a life).
So how in the world can anyone read more than that… and why am I only in the top 25%?
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Are there people who read two books a day? And how many do you have to read to teach the top ten…
I call foul.
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I’m thoroughly enjoying my Goodreads app. It’s a great way to catalog and keep track of what I’ve read and what I want to read in the future.
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No more buying books only to realize it’s familiar after finishing the first chapter. A definite win in my book.
Oh look, I made a funny. 😉
Living with algorithms that constantly bombard me with pickles and ridiculous cat products, I was a little surprised to learn my Goodreads app doesn’t seem to know me that well.
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Need help finishing it?
Uh, no. I completed and surpassed my goal quite a while back.
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Okay, I drastically underestimated the amount I read in a year. Sue me, I’ve never counted before. Next year I shall be more on point.
But short reads? Please. Don’t recommend those skinny little overnight books.
I’m just getting interested 200 pages in.
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Before joining Goodreads I never gave much thought to how much I read. I knew it was a lot, books are stuffed in every nook and cranny of our house and my Amazon deliveries are epic. But I don’t keep all the books I’ve finished… I couldn’t, they would literally bury me… so I never did a yearly count until now.
Goodreads has a annual challenge where you set a goal and check off as you go.
My prediction of the number of books I’d read this year was slightly off.
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I thought 75 seemed like a good number… but clearly it was a little low.
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It’s early May and it looks like I’m 50 books ahead of schedule.
Oops.
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