Does anyone have any tips for reading faster? I’m a slow reader but I want to start reading faster so I can read more books overall. Since coming onto this app, the amount of books I’ve read has definitely increased but my pace of reading hasn’t. I feel like I’m not reading quick enough especially when I see others who have already read 100+ or even 50+ books already! It’s so impressive and so I’ve been wondering, if you consider yourself a fast reader, how do you do it? Good time management? Skimming? Skipping pages? And how does your way of reading quickly affect your understanding of the book? Please let me know of any helpful tips!

What’s the last cool new word you learned from a book?

I just learned folderol (trivial or nonsensical fuss) from Gideon the Ninth.

Ok hello I am starting a new thing, "Whatcha Get?" Weekend (posted Saturday or Sunday, idk), for sharing what books you got in the last week!

• Did you check out a big stack from the library?
• Did you visit a new LFL and find something exciting?
• Did someone give you a book for your birthday?
• Did you go splurge at the bookstore?
• Did you stuff your Kindle?
• Did you find a book in the dumpster?
• ???

IT ALL COUNTS so tell me...whatcha get??? 👀

Just curious where everyone gets there books/what format you read them in. I personally use Libby (looking for alternatives that don’t use AI though) and my local library for 80% of my reading. Audiobooks make up probably 60% of that. Ebooks are a rare occurrence, I just don’t pick up my ereader 😭. Everything else is books I’ve bought, never from Amazon, and mostly from Barnes and Noble or Thrift Books (so cheap!) about 10% is probably local bookstores. I’ve been trying to use them instead of Barnes and Noble, but that requires leaving the house…