Zon has given me 3 months of free Audible and I'm very tempted to activate this offer. But I don't know if I should 🤔

I'm so new to audiobooks. For me, personally, I'm very particular with them. I get bored quickly when listening to them or something happens to make me DNF.

But right now, I'm listening to an audiobook with my Spotify free trial and it's the first one I've really enjoyed. So I want to explore more audiobooks but after I finish this book I'll have used up all my listening hours on Spotify 🥴

I don't know if I'd get use out of the Audible subscription given my previous track record with audiobooks, so I'm apprehensive.

Should I give it a go regardless?

~ Full disclaimer: this is purely a me thing.

A cracked spine 💃 B no visible lines 🙅‍♀️

A slow book with a great payoff 📝 B not a wasted page 🤩

A Reading plan on PB’s 🖤 B whats a plan?

A usually follow a book genre B jumps between genre

The Quiet Observer (takes in every detail from the book) AAAA; AAAB; BABA The Chaotic Scholar AABA; AABB; ABAA The Page Goblin ABBB; ABBA; ABAB The Perfectionist Librarian BAAA; BBAA; BAAB; BBAB The Adventurer Mood Reader BABB; BBBB BBBA

I am ABBB 🙂‍↕️ page goblin Please let me know if anything is missing, I tried my best to make the matches but it is not that detailed :)

hi friends! with the year and everyone's reading goals wrapping up soon, i just wanted to share some reading highlights from 2025 that i'm proud of. would love to hear about your reading achievements / fav moments during the year as well so please feel free to share 🥹

• starting off strong, i purchased a Kobo earlier this year and honestly this has transformed my reading hobby in the best way possible.

• (with huge credit to my Kobo), i've been maintaining a consistent reading streak. i've read at least one book per month the past year,which is a huge improvement from the past where i would fall into repetitive cycles of reading everyday and a complete hiatus for months before picking up something again.

• got into reading nonfiction. although i only managed to finish 3 this year, i feel like i've gained a new perspective on nonfiction and definitely gotten past my misjudged prejudice against the genre (for this, i blame the era of overhyped self help books being shoved into my face on every social media platform in the past).

• i've also generally tried to diversify my reading and PB has genuinely played such a vital part in this. i've read -and thoroughly enjoyed- several books that i wouldn't normally pick up if not for the readalongs, quests, lists, and even directly from PB user recommendations. i can't stress on how refreshing it is to be recommended a book that's not fuelled through algorithms or AI.

• on that note i wanna give a huge shout out to PB. for me, this community has rekindled that giddy excitement over reading that i used to feel as a child, that has been somewhat numbed over the years due to a mix of over saturation of books on the internet, getting lost between reading as a hobby vs an aesthetic, and just adulting and life honestly.

i'm excited for new challenges in the upcoming year and wish everybody on here the same xx

As it says in the title

This is just something I've been thinking about - I often see characters described as "annoying" in reviews and I often wonder what traits might make folks feel this way about a character. It's subjective, after all!

For me, I have trouble with characters that lose intelligence/common sense to push the plot forward (horror is ESPECIALLY bad for this but I've seen it in all sorts of genres) or who have careers and functioning lives but somehow manage to come off as completely helpless and incompetent.