Bring It On Again! The 4th Annual Read What You Own Challenge

[@CriminOllyBlog]

Let’s do this! So stoked to have you all on board again

[@michaelldennis]

One year I did a variation of this. Allowed myself to purchase a max of 10 books in that year and everything else had to be owned or borrowed. Exception for audible credits already purchased.

[@anotherbibliophilereads]

Lots of folks deal with the issue in different ways.

[@sterlingreads547]

Maybe I’ll try this again. I’ve failed twice 😆

[@ellethinks]

Yes! I'm going for bronze! I've been almost exclusively reading library books so this challenge will give me some steam to start prioritizing my owned books.

[@anotherbibliophilereads]

Go for it!

[@bouquinsbooks]

Madness! This is madness! 😂 Though I can see the method behind the madness. Good luck!

[@anotherbibliophilereads]

@@bouquinsbooks Isn’t BookTube an insane asylum? Madness is normal.

[@unstopitable]

Before there was ever such a thing as BookTube (or YT, for that matter), I thought I was the only one who was so OD with my lists, what I "needed" to read, what I wanted to read, what I was actually reading, etc. I had no idea there were others who had the same mania. Counting pages instead of books actually makes a lot more sense, as simple, standard metric.

[@readandre-read]

I always enjoy hearing everyone's caveats and rules for this challenge. Happy Reading!

[@BookChatWithPat8668]

This is such a great idea in theory. I just know I could never do this. I would have to start with a much smaller number to start. Five sounds about right for me! 😂

[@anotherbibliophilereads]

If you want to join, pick a number that’s right for you. I aim for twenty weeks which is like a marathon. Tough but doable. For you, maybe five or six weeks, or something .

[@BookChatWithPat8668]

@@anotherbibliophilereads I'm thinking about it. I just know myself....Maybe if I started VERY small and was successful, I could add onto it/extend it. Thinking about it....

[@ChristopherEvenstar]

@@BookChatWithPat8668 I agree with this sentiment, Pat. Good luck! It's a perspective changer.

[@ChristopherEvenstar]

It seems like you were pretty quick last year. Point of clarification on the page count challenge: must you complete the book? Good luck! I like your vintage book caveat.

[@anotherbibliophilereads]

I would say no you don’t have to complete the book. If you DNF, just count how many you finished.

[@thepapertraveler1122]

I love the page count idea and it’s convinced me to give this challenge another try!

[@RaynorReadsStuff]

For self-imposed complicated reasons I am going to have to read 120 books this year. Totally my own fault 😂😂 but I’m looking forward to it

[@M-J]

Evil mastermind…😂😂😂 We are all out of our minds for doing this again - BUT I CANNOT WAIT! 😂👏🏻👏🏻

[@anotherbibliophilereads]

He got dubbed the evil mastermind in the first year of 100 Book Challenge.

[@M-J]

@@anotherbibliophilereads and it still sticks! 😄

[@fiberartsyreads]

Let’s goooooo!!!

[@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk]

Best wishes. (If you see a book you desperately need your wife could of course buy it for 'herself.')

[@anotherbibliophilereads]

@@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk That would be cheating, IMHO.

[@LeeKempter]

Yes, I want to join!! I think 100 will be about right for me (I have 5 bookcases that are now over flowing onto the floor and this MUST be remedied!!!) I take the books I have finished to the Friends of the Library unless they are too good to give away. I NEED floor space!!! Am going to have a couple of problems to solve because the next books I have chosen to read are all over 1000 pages, and about 5 Chunkers. Plus I am joining you and Allen reading Against the Day by Pynchon, 10087 pages all ready set for January. I am going to have to think about this, how to have it count and not slow everything to a crawl. Any idea when we shall start this monster of a Challenge ??? I may have to mix and match some of your suggestions.

[@anotherbibliophilereads]

@@LeeKempter You can always to the page count version. I wanted this variant especially because of Against the Day, The Brothers Karamazov, and Proust. I’m going for 25k pages but you need to pick what is right for you. I aiming for 20 weeks .

[@SueJacksonDE]

Enjoyed hearing the history and details of Read Your Own Books Challenge. I've seen it all over Booktube. I've done a TBR challenge in the book blogging world for over a decade, and I always try to read from my own shelves first ... but then, there are the books that my book group chooses (which I usually get through the library), books for Booktopia each year, and though I don't normally buy books for myself (though I buy a lot as gifts!), when we visit an indie bookstore, I do like to support the store with a small purchase :) I liked hearing your personal caveats and the flexibility in the challenge.

[@anotherbibliophilereads]

I’ll be done with the RWYC before national indie bookstore day.

[@SueJacksonDE]

@@anotherbibliophilereads ha ha That's good!

[@davidnovakreadspoetry]

You have options.

[@richarddelanet]

Flintstone level could be read 1 book? Lol. It's all good!

[@anotherbibliophilereads]

@@richarddelanet 🤪

[@GentleReader01]

1 book, or 50 cave rooms, or 15 mammoths with tattoos.

[@richarddelanet]

@@GentleReader01 Steady as she goes! We'll be at acorn level next...

[@ChristopherEvenstar]

Love it.

[@wburris2007]

I am still working on my previous read what I own challenge. I did make an exception by going to Goodwill twice and bought 13 books at $2 each.

[@cafecryptic]

I have to admit, seeing this challenge as a page count rather than a book amount makes it feel more attainable, I am tempted to participate!

[@anotherbibliophilereads]

Go for it!

[@millieandmarigoldbooks]

Wishing you the best of luck with the RWYO challenge! This is my first year and I'm going for Platinum... Good luck and Happy reading!! 😃📚📗

[@anotherbibliophilereads]

@@millieandmarigoldbooks Welcome to the challenge!

[@millieandmarigoldbooks]

@@anotherbibliophilereads Thanks heaps, looking forward to it.. happy reading!! 😃📚

[@mgmartin51]

What a wild idea! Maybe I should read some of my books too!

[@anotherbibliophilereads]

@@mgmartin51 Try it!

[@EntertheBook]

Ha ha ha doing it to yourself again- yeah- I sort of do this this year - I will go for low buy and get my physical tbr on my shelves under 100 unread. Will see how it goes. Best wishes on your challenge!! 😊

[@anotherbibliophilereads]

@@EntertheBook I will feel cleansed when I’m done.

[@davebrzeski]

Doing a word count would be much more accurate, but much harder to find the info.

[@anotherbibliophilereads]

@@davebrzeski Amazon or Barnes & Noble usually give pages counts that can be used for digital or audiobooks.

[@Book_Hugger]

Okay, okay 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️ I just cataloged my library and got book mail today that has to be added to the catalog list. I am in. I will go in bronze “cycles”. Read 25, I can buy a book. I do also have a few handful of indie press subscriptions I want to keep, but won’t count those in the challenge. Also, what I started doing in the past month is after reading one of my books, if I don’t think it warrants a re read, I list it in my Pangobookshop, so I allow myself to buy a book if I sell a book on Pango, so I may keep doing that. All of the caveats I have added to my challenge, but I am in, yeah. I am 🫣

[@anotherbibliophilereads]

@@Book_Hugger All right! You’ve got this. Today is day 1 of the RWYOC for me.

[@Book_Hugger]

@ Yes! We got this! Excited to give some love to these unread pages.