New year's goal: read 2,013 book this year

[Tamsyn]

250 ish.  February was a flop because we slacked on our library visits, but we've been catching up this month!  It's neat to have the support here, thank you.

[waterdreamer]

Do you count ebooks?

[robbyjo]

This is exciting. We've been reading about 5 books each day to my kid, but I haven't kept track of it. 2013/365= ~5.52. I'll try to do 6 or 7 books a day now.

[Tamsyn]

Why not?  Yes, I have. 

 

I was afraid someone was going to call me on this goal.      Thank you.  I haven't been keeping track lately, and frankly I haven't been as good about reading to my kids lately.  Ever since Patrick really started reading on his own, he hasn't requested it as often.  We still do a lot of reading, but when they don't beg for it, I don't do it as much, and I've put my attention on other areas.  Ruth is doing great as far as learning how to read, but since I haven't counted flashcard sessions (digital or otherwise), it doesn't contribute much to my total count.  But with 6 months left, I guess I better step up to bat and get it done.  I didn't realize how lofty this goal was when I set it!  If a book or chapter takes 10-15 minutes, it doesn't add up as fast as I thought it would.  I don't want to read lots of little board books only for the sake of reaching the 2013 goal either.  This summer we have been reading at least 20 minutes every day or the library's reading program, so I've kept track of the time instead of book count, and it really does take that long to read the books my older kids need ME to read to them.  If I kept track of all the reading they did to themselves, we wouldn't be behind, but that wasn't the purpose of my goal.  Hmm. It's time for me to re-evaluate what's important to me and reaffirm my goal to read more.

[waterdreamer]

I'm only a 1/4 way through my goal. But since we started ECing with Baby Z, our numbers have jumped up quite a bit. I was also reading books and forgetting to write the book title down. So now I just started keeping a tally and add the amount to my book every week or so.

I was asking about ebooks because Baby Z and I have been doing the Hooked on Phonics app and at the end of each lesson is an ebook. So I'm added them in my tally

[Krista G]

I realized a few months ago that I am not able to do this.  I really wanted to, but my kids have needed more reading in the way of chapter books, and they take too long to read what I would need to get to this number.  I really liked doing this last year, but truthfully, I think I need this year off.  We are still reading, somedays more, somedays less, but it seems that there aren't enough picture books to select from anymore and maybe I am just making excuses...

Reading to my kids is hugely important to me.  We have developed a lovely summertime routine where we sit in the driveway in the morning at a little table and I read a chapter book to them while they have their breakfast.  We have been reading for about an hour or more a day, but it just really wasn't counting towards this goal.  I congratulate all of you who are still officially in the game.  May you reach your goal.

[Korrale4kq]

Frankly we read so many books I need a simple way to keep track. I don't want to have to track done the pen and paper. I just need an app where I can scan the ISBN and have the book logged.

[waterdreamer]

Let me know if you find one. For right now we just are doing tally marks.

[ktk]

Thanks for the tip! Found "Book Crawler" app, seems to scan/find fast ISBN and very easy to use. It has a sharing option also.
For the book challenge - it's a pity I noticed this challenge only now because it might  be too late to join in ( already almost July)? Or maybe we could do now half of it for 6 month challenge? Would love to do something like that - It indeed seems to be a good idea to count/note down the books you read, we started the summer reading program on our local library last week which was only 15 books for the summer, so we obviously reached that goal fast but I kept on noting down the books, it certainly helps you to keep you up on going!

[civicmom15]

This is a great idea! We'll take the challenge. I think that I might create a post to keep track of ours.

[civicmom15]

I don't have one of those smart phones, so I set up a Shelfari account through Amazon to track the books that we read to our little girl. You can also by visiting shelfari.com.

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