Striving for Check/Book Balance Challenge Think you can 'balance' your book purchases with the money saved from reading books in your existing TBR stack?
No math needed. Instead, let's tally the number of books we read this year ~ Books purchased & read v. Books owned & read in 2021. *Feel free to break up your owned into groups including library borrows and eFreebies. Or, throw those into a separate category for add'l tracking.
How will your scales compare to those in previous years?
Goal: By the end of a year, your 'owned/read' stack should be larger or equal to your 'purchased/read' stack. If so, challenge completed successfully. If not, well, there's always next year! ;)
Note: For this challenge, "owned" books include those purchased no later than the end of the year before starting the challenge. If you pre-ordered AND paid for a book prior to the end of year, but received it (by post) after the first of the year, it counts as 'owned', not 'purchased' in current year.
Additionally, members are welcome to include ANY books (even those outside of the PNR/UF genre), if they'd like to get an accurate total for the year; that is totally up to each participant. Therefore, all formats are allowed; re-reads are allowed (and count as an 'owned' read).
Duration: 1 year from start date (calendar year may work best for this one, but not required)
Post Layout: In an attempt to keep things organized for my OCDemoness, let's all follow the same layout for our master post. Please cut & paste the template below and update it throughout the year.
Striving for Check/Book Balance Challenge Total books read: #
Purchased & Read: # [insert cover art for all books here]
Owned & Read: # [insert cover art for all books here]
Scale Status:This part will vary depending on your #s. If equal use: #|# If tipped use: #\# or #/# <--to reflect which way your scale is leaning
Members who join are welcome (and encouraged) to post as many daily/monthly/quarterly updates they'd like to share how they are doing throughout the year. Feel free to share those updates in any format you'd like, just remember to update your master list periodically as well.
For those adventurous types: If you'd make the challenge more challenging, you can guesstimate how many books you'll read (buy v. own) and/or set a goal for yourself. If you do, please mention it in your master post.
Think you can 'balance' your book purchases with the money saved from reading books in your existing TBR stack?
No math needed. Instead, let's tally the number of books we read this year ~ Books purchased & read v. Books owned & read in 2021. *Feel free to break up your owned into groups including library borrows and eFreebies. Or, throw those into a separate category for add'l tracking.
How will your scales compare to those in previous years?
Goal: By the end of a year, your 'owned/read' stack should be larger or equal to your 'purchased/read' stack. If so, challenge completed successfully. If not, well, there's always next year! ;)
Note: For this challenge, "owned" books include those purchased no later than the end of the year before starting the challenge. If you pre-ordered AND paid for a book prior to the end of year, but received it (by post) after the first of the year, it counts as 'owned', not 'purchased' in current year.
Additionally, members are welcome to include ANY books (even those outside of the PNR/UF genre), if they'd like to get an accurate total for the year; that is totally up to each participant. Therefore, all formats are allowed; re-reads are allowed (and count as an 'owned' read).
Duration: 1 year from start date (calendar year may work best for this one, but not required)
Post Layout: In an attempt to keep things organized for my OCDemoness, let's all follow the same layout for our master post. Please cut & paste the template below and update it throughout the year.
Members who join are welcome (and encouraged) to post as many daily/monthly/quarterly updates they'd like to share how they are doing throughout the year. Feel free to share those updates in any format you'd like, just remember to update your master list periodically as well.
For those adventurous types: If you'd make the challenge more challenging, you can guesstimate how many books you'll read (buy v. own) and/or set a goal for yourself. If you do, please mention it in your master post.