Today my friends and I were talking about creating general life budgets and I mentioned that I absolutely need a book budget. They thought I was crazy but there are times where I go insane at book stores or online! I rely more on my public library now (my wallet thanks me) but I think that I’ll still use a book budget when the time comes lol. What do you guys think, would you or do you have a budget for books? And would you or do you follow it?

I thought I'd share in case someone else also likes nerding out over Middle Earth because Tolkien took his work very seriously and calculated the length and speed of Ent-strides, as found in Hammond & Scull's LotR: A Reader's Companion: "In Marquette MSS 4/2/19 Tolkien made various calculations of the length and speed of an ent-stride, adjusting both to what he felt the distance and length of the journey required. His final conclusion was probably that 'an Ent would take nearly nine hours to do 70,000 strides and presumably in that time would go 70,000 yards at least, probably 4 ft a stride'. This meant about 2.2 strides of 4 feet per second, covering a distance of 53.3 miles, at a speed of about 6 miles per hour. (Other calculations note that at 2 strides per second, 70,000 strides would take 9% hours, and 70,000 strides of 3 feet would be about 40 miles.) In another note, Tolkien writes: 'Ents are (as long as they can drink running water) almost tireless. They can go at c. 12 m.p.h. - averaging say 10 hours (even 24) at a stretch. Max[imum] speed of Treebeard was 20 m.p.h. when charging' (Marquette MSS 4/2/19)"

is there a way to filter reviews, liked based on rating? if not, is there a plan to add that feature? i love being able to commiserate over shitty books or rave about great ones, and having that feature would be amazing!

After having a really good conversation with a coworker/friend it got me to thinking. Why do you read? Do you read to escape (that's me), for pure enjoyment (also me) or to better educate yourself/learn something new?

Out of curiosity I just wonder if other people do this, I usually do the standard reading goal of reading a certain amount of books but I also do specific reading goals like reading this many physical books, reading this number of books that I had since I was 13, reading every fae book I have, rereading a favorite series. So do you have just one reading goal or multiple?

I used to rate books with ".25" and ".75" stars (especially on StoryGraph) but now in my opinion 3.25 can just be 3 stars and 3.75 can just 4 stars. And in pagebound i think its nice to not confuse myself with this bc here it's only .5! What do you think?

Do you annotate your books? If so how do you decide which book to annotate and why? My goal for this year was to get into and so far all I've managed to do is add colored tabs and occasionally highlighting lines. I really want to get into it more and hoping to have a system in place when I do a re-read of Fourth Wing before the next book comes out.. in like 500 years!