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I bought 2 free audiobooks from Chirp just so I can try them out. I already have a Chirp account but I‘ve never bought audiobooks from them before. I like the idea of saving money on audiobooks so I‘m all for that. I chose The Tumor by John Grisham and Finding Faith by B.E. Baker. I‘ve never read either of these authors.
Bookshop is having a 20% off sale on Spring books. It excludes ebooks. It ends on Monday.
Bookshop just sent me this email this morning. I only bought 2 ebooks from them so I don‘t have that many ebooks from them yet. It‘s $10 for 1 ebook but since I bought 2 ebooks, I ended up spending $20. I feel good about this.
I decided to sign up for a Libro fm membership and I changed my Audible membership from a Premium Plus membership to a Standard membership. I was paying $16 a month for Premium Plus and I wasn‘t listening to the audiobooks from the Plus catalog. This should help me save some money. I used the promo code SWITCH when I signed up for Libro fm and they gave me 3 credits for free. I bought 2 audiobooks with my credits already. I have 1 credit left.
I entered in my email address on Chirp and they told me that I already have an account with them. I forgot that I made an account. I haven‘t bought any audiobooks on Chirp.
Here‘s another website where you can buy audiobooks. It‘s called Chirp and this is what the website says. I‘ve never used it but I like that this isn‘t a subscription service. Everything is a subscription service now but this isn‘t. I‘m tempted to subscribe to Libro fm though because I looked at the cost of one audiobook from Libro fm just to buy and it‘s $20.99 so it seems like I would save money on audiobooks by subscribing to their service.
I just found out about this website where you can buy physical books. I was reading their website and this is some of the information I found out about it. I‘ve never shopped with them before. I don‘t need to buy more physical books because I‘m running out of space but this website sounds really good.
I just made a Libro Fm account. I chose another independent bookstore to support in my area but I haven‘t signed up for a membership. I was reading their website and they said you can sign up for a membership, buy credits without a membership or buy audiobooks a la carte. I like that. I don‘t want to sign up for a membership so I think a la carte purchases would work better for me just to see if I like Libro fm or not.
I just looked at Libro FM and it sounds really good. It supports independent bookstores and I like that. I currently pay $14.95 a month for Audible and Libro FM is $14.99 a month so it‘s about the same price. I use Kindle Unlimited and I like the read & listen for free books because I can get the audiobook from Audible and it doesn‘t cost me anything. I also like the Audible Originals so I‘m not leaving Audible.
I‘ve decided to buy some ebooks from www.bookshop.org because after Amazon said that you‘re just purchasing a license to read their ebooks, I don‘t feel comfortable buying ebooks and audiobooks from them anymore but now, I feel better about buying ebooks knowing that it‘s helping a local independent bookstore that I‘ve chosen. Libro FM also supports independent bookstores. I love Audible but maybe eventually, I‘ll switch to Libro FM.
I had to buy some books I had as Netgalley ARCs. I had to buy the Brandon Sanderson book for the book club that I‘m in and I had to find the audiobooks for The Realm Of The Elderlings because I‘m going to be participating in a readalong for that series this month. The Realm Of The Elderlings is divided up into trilogies. I‘ve never read Robin Hobb. The last 2 fantasy series I read were A Song Of Ice And Fire and Lord Of The Rings.
#bookhaul
I‘m sharing my December Book Haul using my reading journal from Novelly Yours.
#bookhaul
I‘m using my reading journal from Novelly Yours to share this grid that shares my books of the year by books acquired so it looks like for the entire year, I acquired 338 books. I can see looking at this grid the months where I acquired a lot of books and months when I didn‘t acquire as much.
I was on Facebook and I just saw this post. I think it‘s a great idea. I don‘t understand the Witcher reference because I haven‘t read the books or watched the TV show. What is the feathered dinosaur a reference to? Is it also something from the Witcher?
I just saw that Book Outlet is having a Black Friday Sale right now. It looks like I might need to buy some new books. My goal is to read my physical TBR before adding more books to it but I deserve some new books. It‘s a good deal.
Here‘s my September Book Haul. I‘m using my reading tracker to show my books that I acquired. This is the next page of the book haul section in the reading tracker. I didn‘t have room to list the 44 Hayhouse audiobooks I got on Spotify.
#bookhaul
I ordered from 3 websites and I‘m excited. I ordered 2 necklaces from Taylor Bradshaw, preordered a 2025 reading tracker and 2 pairs of earrings from the Linkin Park merch store. I ordered an LP necklace with their logo on it a long time ago but I wanted some earrings to match my necklace. I probably didn‘t need 2 more necklaces or 2 more pairs of earrings but I wanted them. Life is boring when I don‘t have online orders to look forward to.
I was just talking about overconsumption of books and I just saw this on my phone. Do I need to buy more books? No but I can earn more points if I buy books. Every time my mom is channel surfing and we land on the shopping channel, I tell her in a joking way,”You need to buy something new.” And she says,”No, I don‘t. I‘m going to be good.” My mom likes to buy kitchen stuff or vacuum cleaners but we have enough of that stuff. We don‘t need more.
I was scrolling through TikTok last night and I saw someone I follow talking about overconsumption of books which inspired me to look up this article about overconsumption. It‘s making me think. Do I have a problem with overconsumption? I probably do but I‘m trying to stop. I probably have more stuff than I need. I like buying stuff and books but am I using what I‘m buying?
Link: https://bookriot.com/overconsumption-of-books/
Audible has a sale going on right now for their audiobooks. All audiobooks are 85% off.
Here‘s the ebooks I bought during Amazon‘s Book Sale May 15-20. I own physical copies of the 2 Chicken Soup For The Soul books and a physical copy of Resurrecting Easter. The other book is by a new to me author. I‘ve never read any books by her. My Amazon Alexa app can read the other books to me. Resurrecting Easter has pictures in it. I don‘t know if I‘ll be able to look at the pictures while listening to the book.
Amazon is having a book sale. I just found out about it.
Today, I‘m sharing the books I got this month.
Photos 1 & 2: I received Listen For The Lie & Puppy Brain in the mail from Celadon Books.
Photos 3 & 4: I preordered these 2 books from Barnes & Noble in 2023.
#bookhaul #celadonbooks #barnesandnoble
Today, I‘m sharing my February Haul.
Photo 1 - I bought 2 bookish candles from Frostbeard Studio. They smell really good.
Photo 2 - Preordered from B&N. This is the sequel to the first book. I haven‘t read the first book yet.
Photo 3 - I ordered this beanie from www.taylorbradshawmusic.com and it came with these 2 bags of Evergreen Tea. One day when it was really cold outside, I wore this beanie and it was really soft.
I decided to fill in my new reading tracker and there‘s a page for writing down books you got during a book haul. The 2 books I bought were preordered in 2023 but I received them this month. I added up the prices of the two books I preordered but I didn‘t count the one that was sent to me. For 2 books, it added up to $43.57 when I used a calculator to calculate the two prices.
Today, I‘m sharing my Bookish Haul for January.
Photo 1 - Book sent to me from St. Martin‘s Press
Photo 2 - Preordered from Amazon
Photo 3 - Preordered from Amazon
Photo 4 - Reading Tracker ordered from Novelly Yours
Photo 5 - Candle ordered from Moody Wick. It came with some stickers and a bookmark. I lit this candle tonight and it smells really good. I like what this candle says on it. It says,”Sleighing My TBR. Oh what fun it is to read.”
I got this email today mentioning this Kindle Rewards event coming up. I‘m not planning to participate because I‘m trying to take a break from buying books this year so I can read what I own. I tried the same thing last year with taking a book buying break and reading what I own and I did fine not buying for a while and then I started back up again. I feel like I‘ll do better this year because I preordered a lot of books in 2023.
Today, I‘m sharing my haul from this month.
Photo 1 - I was sent a physical ARC of this book by Celadon Books before it was released on Dec 26, 2023 and I never read it.
Photo 2 - I ordered this daily devotional for 2024 from Guideposts about animals. It came with free note cards.
Photo 3 - I preordered this book from Barnes & Noble. This is a sequel but I haven‘t read the first book yet.
I‘m sharing my book haul from November.
Photo 1 - I preordered this book from Amazon because I saw that it has pretty Purple sprayed edges but I don‘t know anything about it.
Photo 2 - I received my Welcome Box from Harlequin. I chose the Romance/Suspense box because I like both in books. It came with a pretty Pearl Rose Gold Tone Bracelet which was a nice surprise. I‘ve never signed up for this before but I wanted to try it out.
Yay! My Welcome Box has shipped. I‘m so excited. I got a tracking number so I can track it. That makes me feel better when I can track where my package is. They told me it‘s coming in 1-2 weeks after I ordered it so I‘m surprised that they said it‘s coming in 1-3 business days.
I just made an account with Harlequin and I wrote down my login information. In December 2022, I ordered books from them for the first time so I thought I made an account with them but I didn‘t. I think I was just shopping as a guest. That explains why I couldn‘t log in the other day and track where my Welcome Box is that I ordered.
I went to Harlequin to log in and find out when my Welcome Box is coming because I‘m so excited about it and I realized when I was logging in that I forgot my password. I never even wrote down my login information. I thought I wrote it down but I never did. I always write my login information down when I create a new account on a website so I requested a password reset. I‘ll just see how long it takes for them to respond to my request.
I saw this being advertised on social media by Harlequin Books. I wasn‘t sure if I wanted to order a Welcome Box but I finally decided to do it. I couldn‘t decide whether to choose books from their romance or intrigue series so I chose both. I‘m not committing to anything. It says that I can cancel if I don‘t want to receive any more shipments.
#harlequinbooks
Day 4 of the #scarathlon photo challenge - Ghost
Today, I‘m sharing this book sleeve I ordered online last month from www.bookbeau.com. I love their book sleeves. They protect your books and keep them from getting damaged when they‘re in your purse. I have about 4 or 5 book sleeves from them. On their website, the name of this book sleeve is Books And Boos. I loved it. I thought it was cute and clever.
#HHC
Today, I‘m sharing my September Haul.
Photo 1 - Book sent to me by Simon & Schuster
Photo 2 - Book sent to me by Simon & Schuster
Photo 3 - Book preordered from B&N
Photo 4 - Free bookmark sent to me from Joyce Meyer Ministries
Photo 5 - Bookmark ordered from www.moveon.org
Photo 6 - Booksleeve ordered from Book Beau
Photo 7 - Music ordered from www.taylorbradshawmusic.com. I‘m enjoying the music so far. I like discovering new music.
https://blog.booksamillion.com/posts/expedited-book-delivery-with-walmart-goloca...
I just saw that BAM announced this on their Instagram and Facebook accounts. I shopped online with them a few times. It took awhile for my books to arrive and 2 of my books had to be backordered but I ended up receiving them.
Today, I‘m sharing my August Book Haul. I got a Barnes & Noble gift card for my birthday in July so I bought some books.
Preordered From Amazon: Assistant To The Villain
Preordered From B&N: Foxglove
Sent To Me By Simon & Schuster: Not Forever But For Now
Sent To Me By Penguin Random House: Desertion
#bookmail
Here‘s what I got during Stuff Your Earbuds Day on August 25. I forgot to post this. All of the audiobooks were free. I got audiobooks for my Nook app and for my Apple Books app too. I didn‘t have any audiobooks in my Nook app but now, I do.
Yay! I got all of these points because I shopped on Amazon recently. I ordered a trilogy and then I bought a lot of ebooks that completed book series that I started. I got a $100 Amazon gift card for my birthday last month so I spent the money on more books. Now, I have about $1 left on my gift card. Now that I got more points, I can buy another ebook. I haven‘t bought any new books in months and it was my birthday in July so I bought new books.
Yay! I got this email from Barnes & Noble. I haven‘t been keeping up with my stamps. I need to sign into my account and figure out how to use the $5. However, I noticed one time when I was ordering books online that there‘s an option at checkout to redeem $5 rewards so that might help me next time I want to order some more books. I haven‘t used my $5 rewards at checkout yet so I‘m not sure if it will take $5 off my order.
I got this email from Amazon saying that the release date for this ebook I preordered has been changed. That‘s okay. I don‘t read preorders right away so I can wait. I have plenty of books to read.
Today, I‘m sharing what I bought on Amazon Prime Day. I bought a new reading light because I‘m disappointed with the one that came with my reading book stand. The battery life on it isn‘t very good and the light is too bright for reading at night but I feel like this one will be a better light. I bought another tube of this eye cream because I love it. I won‘t use anything else.
I preordered this book because it was just announced today and I‘ve always been a Britney Spears fan. I grew up listening to her music.
I decided to make this bookish meme. I was just thinking about how I like shopping online for books and how easy it is to find books I want to buy whenever I start browsing the website. I don‘t buy very often because I like to take a break from buying once in awhile and it saves me money but when I see that there‘s a good deal then I will buy books. If I want to take a break from buying then I don‘t go on the book website and browse.
Amazon cancelled my preorder for another ebook I preordered. I was just saying the other day that I hope they don‘t cancel any of my other ebook preorders because they cancelled 1 already and they‘ve done it again. This sucks. I was looking forward to reading this book.
