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👋🎉📚 Welcome, New Member! 📚🎉👋

We are happy that you decided to join us here at Hooked on Books. Take a look around, we have plenty to offer. 🥰We are a small but growing group.

You are guaranteed to find something of your taste in this group, as we offer bookish chats, buddy reads, reading runs, marathons, readathons, and individual, team, and partner challenges. 🤩 We hope you will join us in these as we are really excited about offering them.

Down below is a step by step guide with helpful links to get you started. 🤓 Do you have any questions or suggestions? Is there something missing? Do not hesitate to drop us a line here or PM any mod.

From our exciting team challenges to our readathons, we hope you will find something here at HOB that you enjoy. Happy reading!

✨📖 Your HOB mods 📖✨

📚✨ Step By Step Guide - How To Settle Into This Group ✨📚

🪱Step 1: Meet Your Fellow Bookworms🪱
First things first, head over to the Introduce Yourself! thread and say hi to the group. Once that is done, feel free to check out some of these threads:

📖 HOB How To Do you need to know how to do something on Goodreads? Check our How To section or ask us. We will try our best to find an answer.
📖 Bookish Chats This is really all about you. What are you currently reading? What books did you enjoy? What did you hate? Share & discuss them here.
📖 Author’s Corner Are you an author? A blogger? Are you running a giveaway? This area is for you to inform our members of your latest happenings. Members, check here to see what our author & blogger friends have in store for us!

📰Step 2: Don't Snooze - Read the News!📰
Now that you have made some friends, check out our Monthly Newsletter and our Group Announcements to find out about all our newest bookish pleasures



🏆Step 3: From TBR to Victory - Conquer the Challenges!🏆
Do you want to spice up your reading? Check out our Current Challenges thread to join in on the fun. Pick and choose whatever strikes your fancy.

📖 Are you a challenge newbie? Readathons and Marathons are a great and stress-free way to kick off your challenge career.
📖 Or are you ready to dive in headfirst? Join a challenge, whether it be an individual, partner or team challenge.
📖 Do you want to create your own book goals and challenges? Create your very own thread in the Personal Challenges folder!
📖 Would you prefer more bookish discussion and less focus on challenges? Check out our engagement threads such as The Lore Vault, or join a Buddy Read (BR), where you can discuss a book you are currently reading with your fellow Book Fanatics. Each month, we have two Formal Buddy Reads, and a Formal Series Buddy Read. These are books that the group reads together. Do you want to participate in more BRs? Feel free to jump into an informal buddy read (IBR), a rule we have at HOB is that everyone is allowed to join ANY BR ANYTIME. You can also start your own BR. Find a BR partner here and sign up here.

🚨Step 4: Turn Pages, Not Corners—Follow the Rules!🚨
Now that you have started to settle in this community, please take a look at the HOB Rules of Conduct. If you are participating in any type of challenge, check out the Standard Challenge & Readathon Book Requirements.



🗒️Step 5: Every Page Played, Every Challenge Slayed—Track It!🗒️
With all the challenges you have joined, you sure are in need of a place to track it all. Create your very own thread in the Challenge Tracking folder to track your challenges, and one in the Collector's Corner folder to organize and display the collectibles you earn during a challenge.



🥳Newbie Training Completed!!!🥳
Congratulations on completing this step by step guide! You have now become an HOB master. You can collect your very first badge collectible down below :)




If you have any questions, do not hesitate to drop us a message here or PM any of the mods. We are always happy to answer any questions that you have. Looking forward to many good reading adventures with you! ❤️

✨📖 Your HOB mods 📖✨