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klarlitz t1_j0u2yah wrote

Congratulation! I'm happy for you!

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FiggyStars t1_j0u3fjb wrote

Woohoo!!! 🎉🎉 30 books is an amazing achievement, congratulations!

If you have a library with access to Libby, I highly recommend it for exploring new books! I check out the “what’s new” books every three weeks or so and have picked up some great ones I’d normally never pick up off the shelf!

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boxer_dogs_dance t1_j0u3yzp wrote

Memoir like Born a Crime is a subset of nonfiction.

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wetcatfoot t1_j0ubii0 wrote

Congrats thats great! Meeting goodreads goals always feels so rewarding! I hope you mamage it next year too :)

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Haselrig t1_j0ue6hb wrote

Well done. It's just a good feeling to set a goal for yourself and achieve it.

I completed mine for the first time in a few years this year. Audiobooks definitely help. I tend to read the books that hold some importance to me and fill in around those with audiobooks that I probably wouldn't read otherwise, but are still worth reading.

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Fun-Dentist-2231 t1_j0ufr4f wrote

Born a Crime was one of my favorites this year as well! I always recommend it and say if Trevor Noah was a nobody, it’d still be just as amazing. Incredible story.

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dniepr t1_j0ugjaq wrote

I'm perplexed. I always felt that reading and listening to audiobooks were completely different activities, I couldn't in any way group them together. Why do you?

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minimalist_coach t1_j0umwt9 wrote

This year my goal was to explore new genres. I read a lot, so if you decide to do something similar you can adjust the # of books or expand the amount of time you give yourself to complete the challenge.

I selected 6 fiction and 6 nonfiction genres with the goal of reading 2 books from each.

I joined the Genre of the Month Challenge hosted by Turn of a Page on Good Reads. Each month they assign a new genre with 4 prompts to be completed that month by reading books. You get a badge for each of the tasks you successfully complete.

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shnibbershnab t1_j0upin2 wrote

Replying to dniepr (#970,785)

Most people considering listening to audiobooks akin to reading

I’d ask “why don’t you”?

You’re still ingesting the content word for word.

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nameisntfranco t1_j0v0ja6 wrote

Love audiobooks! There are moments at work were what I’m doing doesn’t take much brain power and listening to an audio book helps pass the time. Libby is my go to for audiobooks, it’s free and helps support your local library.

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Zikoris t1_j0v4mmx wrote

Replying to nameisntfranco (#972,364)

I mean, listening and reading are just objectively two different things. If you decide they're the same, you immediately run into all sort of logistical impossibilities. If listening is reading, a two year old who has not learned to read yet can now somehow read. So can an illiterate person, and heck, maybe even a dog if you made a simple enough audiobook that consisted of mainly words dogs commonly know.

If your definition of reading means 1. an illiterate person can read, 2. a two year old who has not started school yet can read, and 3. a dog can read, your definition is just obviously wrong.

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OllieKloze t1_j0v570g wrote

Hey, don’t downplay it—30 books a year is awesome!

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scapppyyy t1_j0vaobx wrote

30 books is AMAZING! I JUST completed my goal of 25 books yesterday 😂 congrats!

Aren’t audio books the best?! I also just got into them this year and they have really changed the game for me. Between work, social life, and having ADHD, they’ve been a godsend!

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MlpBrony123z t1_j0vcu4j wrote

Oo can I be a reading friend? I'm on goodreads 👍

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dniepr t1_j0vg0hu wrote

Replying to shnibbershnab (#971,412)

But reading is not "ingesting content" and that's it; it involves knowing how to write, graphic indicators, it engages the brain in the guessing game that is being more or less aware of the typical collocations associated to a given word, punctuation's value... for example, there are some texts that have meaning exclusively in the written medium (like the poems typed in bizarre shapes from last century), and vice versa. Very simply, you cannot say that reading a play is the same as going to the theatre and watching it: just think about actors' personal -and very different- interpretations. Likewise, is a semicolon typed out the same as a silence of arbitrary lenght? No, because a semicolon often carries some subtle meanings like being generally associated to descriptive texts/complex texts. It goes without saying that this kind of reference to a shared (between author and audience) cultural context cannot be translated into an oral rendition of the source material.

So, that's why I'm confused.

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CrazyCatLady108 t1_j0vga1r wrote

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Aparnabalajee OP t1_j0xbrfg wrote

Replying to scapppyyy (#972,948)

25 books!!!! Greatt going. In the past I've always been the person who dislikes audiobooks, but now I hate the past me, and I hate myself that I didn't start using audiobooks early. It is indeed a game Changer.

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minimalist_coach t1_j0xe0rv wrote

Replying to Aparnabalajee (#977,920)

This was the first year I found any challenges on good reads. They aren't easy to find. I joined the Turn of a Page community and it took me a while to figure out how to join the challenge. I had to set up my own thread for the challenge and that's where I would get the genre and tasks each month and where I would post the book I read to complete the task and be rewarded with the badge. As far as I can tell, I'm the only one who can see my own thread.

I prefer the challenges on StoryGraph. They are easy to search and when you finish a book there is a tab to click to add it to a challenge. I just scroll down to the prompt it completes and click it. I can also see which other books people have used to complete each prompt and it shows what % of the prompts I've completed.

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Haselrig t1_j0yhqjw wrote

Replying to Aparnabalajee (#977,996)

Audiobooks are wonderful because I'm willing to listen to books I wouldn't otherwise read, so I get an even broader experience than if I were just reading books on my TBR pile.

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nameisntfranco t1_j0ze80g wrote

Replying to Aparnabalajee (#978,003)

You’ll have to get a library card and use that info to login. Then you’ll click on the building icon on the bottom to browse your library’s collection and the stack of books is what you have borrowed

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