What’s everyone’s philosophies about DNFing? I have to admit it’s something I’ve found really difficult. Even if I’m not interested at all in the book and find it a slog or I’m just not connecting to the material, I feel this immense guilt about not ever picking it up again. I’d rather not read at all than not finish. The one time I’ve DNFed a book with almost no intention of ever picking it up again was Passage by Connie Willis, and it still took me half the book to tell myself I’d made enough of an effort to justify stopping.

'Dear me, what's use of being a disgrace to the name of wizard if they don't even pay you well for it?'

I think it's more of a disgrace that the Ministry is not paying their employees enough

Like. Okay. I have a small habit of buying too many books. So to cut back on that, I have started to change from just buying the books I want to read, and focus my energy into saving up to buy special editions and hardcovers of the series that I know I absolutely adore as like an actual collection.

I'm thinking of making more use with libraries, the internet archive, etc for reading itself.

I will admit there is no actual question, I just want other people's thoughts about this and maybe some recs on other places to get the books I'm interested in.

I have always wondered why do some people start their reviews with a whole paragraph summarizing the book? When I'm going through reviews, I have already read the official summary so I don't need to read ten other versions of it. Is it only because people copy-paste what they wrote on their blog where there is no initial context for the book? Wouldn't it make sense to remove this part where you're posting on any book review sites? I just struggle to understand (note that I ask this question purely by curiosity, no judgment for people who do that! 🫣)

Your house is on fire! You only have time/space to save one physical book from your collection - What book are you saving? (optional bonus question - why that book?)

I'm currently reading a book with lots of Spanish words, and I don't know any significant Spanish. In the forums there's lots of posts saying people are looking up a ton of the words to understand the text. In other book forums I've also seen posts along the same lines unrelated to language, just general "I have looked up so many words; have your dictionary nearby" etc

I basically never look up words. At this point in my reading journey it's quite rare for me to encounter any (English) word I don't know, and even if I don't know it (any language) I can 99% of the time understand the meaning from context clues and therefore feel no need...

Am I just a weirdo for never referencing the dictionary?? How often do you grab the dictionary/Google, and what's a great word you've learned from this process?

Here's a previous club post talking about a similar topic

Hi guys does anyone here know an online bookshop that:

1. isn't affiliated with Amazon
2. has reasonable shipping within the EU
3. that the English books are reasonably priced and/or are second hand I used Vinted to buy second hand but the selection is sparse and I've seen libristo but I don't trust it. Has anyone tried it?

Every once in a while I’ll go through some reviews of books I’ve read just to see what other people think. And something I’ve noticed is that there’s a good amount of people who don’t like slice of life moments or detours when they’re reading.

This got me thinking about the shift away from 20+ episode seasons on tv and the cutting of filler episodes.

I, for one, love slice of life moments in books and filler episodes are often some of my favorite episodes in tv. To me, some of the best character moments come from them. Not development, but moments. Something small that tells you these characters have lives beyond what we’re given as an audience. (Please. Some shows need more than 8 episodes, executives.)

So, is there a correlation? If you like little sidetracks in your books, do you also like filler episodes? Do you not like either? One but not the other? (I’m particularly interested in the why on this one)

how are non-spanish speakers enjoying this book? is it more challenging? I speak/read portuguese, so I understand Spanish pretty well, even the slang hehe. so I am having the time of my life, listening to the audiobook!!! which made me think of people who don't understand Spanish, is the experience less fun?

Today I finished reading a book and since I was a bit busy I decided to leave a rating on my phone before I forgot and then write my review when I could get on my computer. After posting is when I found out that you get 1 point for ratings and 5 for reviews, but you only get the 5 points for leaving the review if you leave it at the same time that you're rating it but not after. I don't leave a lot of reviews and usually if I do I leave it at the same time as my rating so I wasn't aware of this until now, so I guess this counts as a little PSA for anybody else who didn't know :P

Okay, so I love when a book series has the numbers on the spine. Especially for longer series. However, I recently found a matching set of the Maze Runner books at a Thrift Store and it is so annoying to me that they are numbered in publication order verses chronological order. I can’t move them how I want because the numbers being wrong hurts my head but so does this.

It also made me think that even if I read books in a different order, I prefer to place prequels before the rest when I put the series on my shelf. Like I read in publication order but still like to put prequels first on the shelf.

Anyways, nothing super dire. I’m just curious but what are your thoughts? Do you like books numbered in publication order or chronological? If they aren’t numbered, how do you arrange them?

I’m curious to see what others do!

Edit: just to clarify, I like to read in publication order. I just like to put my books on the shelf in chronological order.

Which one are you? I personally prefer reading on my kindle since I can take it anywhere with me