okay so i have a one chapter rule- if i start a book i have to at least read the entirety of chapter one. that’s nothing crazy. (this only changes in very rare cases) however if i choose not to continue it after chapter one i wont mark it as DNF, i just quietly take it off my reading/TBR list and call it a day. i mentioned this to a friend and she said i should be logging them as DNF. my pov? i barely even started the book so why muck up my DNF as that’s reserved for books that really disappoint. so your thoughts on it? what are your DNF practices?

Where do you guys listen to your audiobooks or purchase them?

Library Indie Bookstore through Libro FM Audible Spotify

Curious to hear. I'm looking for options!

hi folks, i was looking for opinions/ideas on how to track books that are part of complete works or anthologies? i have a Lovecraft complete works and an Oscar Wilde one but i don’t necessarily plan on reading them in order, so it seems silly to list it as the complete works when im only reading a chunk of it at a time. how would you go about it?

Ok so Spotify wrapped came out and mine was questionable (it was all specifically Eurovision 2025 with the exception of jpegmafia. I live in America btw).

Now do you think your wrapped kinda matches up with what your reading style is? Ik that question sounds insane. Even though I’m a beats>lyrics most times (because I have music in the background, but that doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate deeper lyrics). I like deeper meaning in my books, I like trying to find something deeper and watching videos on the topic. (I also don’t mind reading just for fun, but something about that music vs books makes it vice versa).

I dont know I thought it was an interesting but weird and confusing question to ask.

Is it just me, or do you avoid books set in your city?

I was born and raised by Seattle. I don't know why it is, but books set in Washington or Seattle I avoid.

Is there any reason why??? Not really. (Side tangent TV shows or movies set in the state kind of bug me though because it REALLY shows they've never been there EVER Cough Cough Death Note live action (accept Supernatural and X files))

I read Remarkably Bright Creatures recently and it was set in Washington and I enjoyed how the author wrote the city as it's own character. But that was the only book I have read set in my city.

How about you? Or do you enjoy books more if they are setbin your city? Just curiosity plaguing me again.

It’s the 1st of the month, so you know what that means:

What was your November: • favourite books: • least favourite books: • total books read:

For December/end of the year: • What are you planning to read ? • Are there any books releasing you're interested in? • do you have a reading goal for the month?

My memory can be patchy at times, but I love to keep track of any special details surrounding my physical books. For the past few months I've been noting down details on them, usually on the very last page so that whenever I see the annotations it just brings me back to those moments. Do you do anything similar, in the book itself or somewhere else?

The main details I track are usually:

• any book purchased while travelling, in which case I put the bookstore name, city, and date of purchase.
• if a book was gifted, i'll write down the name of the gifter, the date and the occasion.
• any books purchased for a "special" occasion. (for example "bought to celebrate graduating uni")

Reorganizing my bookshelves today and I noticed that some of the books I’ve read in the past (mainly paperbacks) have some slight wear on them. Dents and tiny rips on the top parts of pages and dust jackets, creasing of spines and corners, etc etc.

I personally feel that this gradual wearing down of them adds a lot of character and personality to them. Shows that I really loved the books I’ve read, and that I’m still going back and reading them. Though some I feel a little bad about. For example, the glossy hard cover of one of my books has a scratch on it from a loose screw poking out of an old shelf I had it on.

What do you think about slight wear on your books? Do you try to fix them? Give them away or donate them? Or do you leave them be?

What speed do you usually listen to audiobooks at? For a long time I listened to them at 2.0 speed, but then I realized that I didn’t comprehend a lot of the story. So now I listen to audiobooks in either 1.50 or 1.75. Current audiobook: Goddess of the River