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Every summer, I yearn for an adult version of the elementary/middle school reading log homework. Public library summer reading bingo (with prizes!) has cured me. Bonus points to the King County Library System for using the same Seattle-based artist (@oddrabbits on ig) to design the adult, teen, and kid bingo boards. If anyone has recs for any of the categories, let me know! So far, I've checked off: grief, author from another continent, new-to-you format, humor, read in public, monsters, and buddy read.
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📖getting prizes for reading has me feeling like pavlov's dogs
Jul 1, 2025
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📖Books Unbanned is an initiative started by the Brooklyn Public Library to make banned literature accessible to teens and young adults. several other libraries have joined the initiative as well!
any residents of the USA between the ages of 13-26, can get a free library card that allows you full access to the library’s entire online catalog!!!!!
Brooklyn Public Library offers their cards for 13-21 year olds and you have to email them directly(they don’t have a link): [email protected] The Seattle & Boston public libraries offer their cards for 13-26 year olds! The San Diego public library offers their card for 12-26 year olds and they use the CloudLibrary app instead of the Libby app to access their e-book catalog. LA County also offers their unbanned card but for 13-18 year old California residents only.
And no worries if you’re aged out! You can join the Queer Liberation Library on the Libby app, The New York Library’s Free For All program through the SimplyE app, and The Banned Books Club through The Palace Project app!!!
Brooklyn Public Library offers their cards for 13-21 year olds and you have to email them directly(they don’t have a link): [email protected] The Seattle & Boston public libraries offer their cards for 13-26 year olds! The San Diego public library offers their card for 12-26 year olds and they use the CloudLibrary app instead of the Libby app to access their e-book catalog. LA County also offers their unbanned card but for 13-18 year old California residents only.
And no worries if you’re aged out! You can join the Queer Liberation Library on the Libby app, The New York Library’s Free For All program through the SimplyE app, and The Banned Books Club through The Palace Project app!!!
Aug 20, 2024
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📚-it's (mostly) free
-low stakes, u can change books if u don't like them and just borrow another one!
-gets me out of a reading slumps bc i have a deadline to read them instead of just being able to allow them to collect dust on my bookshelf forever
-supports one of the few remaining free third spaces
-finding paragraphs someone else underlined and imagining the person based on that
-that hot pisces librarian that looks like german michael pitt and wears dress pants in the middle of summer. that's just my local library sorry
-low stakes, u can change books if u don't like them and just borrow another one!
-gets me out of a reading slumps bc i have a deadline to read them instead of just being able to allow them to collect dust on my bookshelf forever
-supports one of the few remaining free third spaces
-finding paragraphs someone else underlined and imagining the person based on that
-that hot pisces librarian that looks like german michael pitt and wears dress pants in the middle of summer. that's just my local library sorry
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Recently, my mom spotted a robin's nest outside her kitchen window, inspiring us to research their behavior. Last week, we learned that the parents can craft as many as three new nests during a single mating season, dads raise the babies once the mom is incubating the next eggs, and couples return to the same spot to repeat the cycle year after year. We researched the different calls and what scientists think they mean. We've graduated to interpreting the songs ourselves. Yes, that's the baby cry! Since researching robins, I feel more connected to and curious about the species I see daily. And it makes me feel closer to home.
She texted me this picture and said: My morning started with my binoculars observing the baby robins learning to fly and find food with their mom, she brought snacks lol. One has been getting into trouble. She just chased it down from a tree. The one on the far left. She is chasing them around.
She texted me this picture and said: My morning started with my binoculars observing the baby robins learning to fly and find food with their mom, she brought snacks lol. One has been getting into trouble. She just chased it down from a tree. The one on the far left. She is chasing them around.
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📱I was completely ignoring screen timers until I had someone else set the password. Now I’m actually locked out of social media and I don’t have to pay another service for app limits. I originally had the screen time capped to an hour and a half a day for ig, youtube, and tiktok, and I’ve been able to lower that down to a half hour. So you don’t need to quit all at once.