My TBR pile is currently out of control, thanks mostly to Wowbrary.
Haven't heard of Wowbrary -- check it out www.wowbrary.org.
Weekly, they send you an email of all the new stuff at your library. They break down the new material down in categories -- fictions, mysteries & thrillers and the category that I've been perusing a lot, graphic novels.
The great thing about Wowbrary is while there are certain authors that I keep an eye out for when they have new stuff and put it on hold early (#166 for Michael Connelly's "The Drop"), others I don't follow as closely or just like browsing the shelves, my interest gets piqued by something new. A librarian friend told me she uses Wowbrary to keep up on nonfiction. I don't even click on that section or I'd be even more overwhelmed...
But the result is that I have something like a dozen books currently checked out of the library! Granted, getting through a graphic novel is an evening's entertainment or less since they read quickly, but there's a hefty number of novels in that mix as well. (And don't get me started on the books I own waiting still to be read...and the asks for reviews... )
Remember back in college when some schools would give reading days in between the last day of class and the start of finals week?
Maybe I need one of those....
Remember back in college when some schools would give reading days in between the last day of class and the start of finals week?
ReplyDeleteNope. But then I majored in applied math and computer science.
Jay --
ReplyDeleteThis may be urban legend. Anderson never did this for me, nor did the University of Illinois. I have heard rumors of it from my professorial parents teaching in the South...
I can only speak for schools I have attended, but Cornell University and University of Wisconsin-Madison both have these, although I think they were called "study days" rather than "reading days" at both places.
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