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May 15th: Are most of your review books for publishers or are you reviewing books of your choice?
At the moment, yes. I quickly did the math on the last 30 books I read and 2 out of 3 are review books. This mostly now that I read a loooot slower, and most books I manage are audiobooks, and those tend to be review books (or the awesome audio sync ones! They have been gathering dusts for years but I have managed some now).
And those book I get to review are those I have chosen so in the end I do review only books of my own choice :D
Except when Carole and I do a joint review, lol. Also, those will come back, but I am having technical problems as S loves to watch youtube and hit my tablet where the book meant for April is.
May 15th: Are most of your review books for publishers or are you reviewing books of your choice?
At the moment, yes. I quickly did the math on the last 30 books I read and 2 out of 3 are review books. This mostly now that I read a loooot slower, and most books I manage are audiobooks, and those tend to be review books (or the awesome audio sync ones! They have been gathering dusts for years but I have managed some now).
And those book I get to review are those I have chosen so in the end I do review only books of my own choice :D
Except when Carole and I do a joint review, lol. Also, those will come back, but I am having technical problems as S loves to watch youtube and hit my tablet where the book meant for April is.
Last week it was spring, this week SUMMER :D
Does Luci like S? He seems to tolerate her at least.
ReplyDeleteI'm 50/50 with review books right now. It was close to almost 100% review a few years ago but I'm working on balance.
Karen @ For What It's Worth
It has improved SO much. He lets her pet him now and well she does not as much pet as hit him ;)
Deletewell I confess it depends because I easily ask books on netgalley lol
ReplyDeleteNG and I are over :/
DeleteI request a few books from NetGalley that are already on my wish list. I mostly read what I want these days. I used to accept every request that was sent to me but reading started to be a chore and that's no fun. So I pretty much just read what I pick now.
ReplyDeleteYIkes, yes I could not, or would not accept everything, some books are SO not for me
DeleteI try to stick to 3 or 4 books a month for review. :)
ReplyDeleteI have a nice mix, but purposely seek out books I want to read :)
ReplyDeleteGood idea
DeleteAll thanks to audio :D
ReplyDeleteI wish I can as fast as my speed right now. I'd have more time to read non-review books. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteSIgh, I hear ya
DeleteMost of my review books are ones I choose, I'm always promising myself I won't get any more and read ones gathering on my shelf! But somehow...
ReplyDeleteLOL, they do seem to magically appear
DeleteMost of my books are review books too. Luckily a lot of the books I do want to read are actually from publishers, or my TBR would be exploding.
ReplyDelete~Mogsy @ BiblioSanctum
It is not exploding already?! ;) Lol, how you ever find the time
DeleteYes I got one week of Sping, 6mos of Winter and now its summer. Thanks for sharing
ReplyDeleteOMG same
DeleteI think my personal or library books is about 25% of my reading, but I don't feel badly about the other 75% being review books b/c most are ones I would have read anyway. I will still take books now and then that I'm not familiar with author or the book, but I keep it to a minimum.
ReplyDeleteRight! I am happy to have most be review books that I truly want :) Cos I would read books like that anyway
Deletecurrently I think most of my are review, but I have been reading and listening a lot more to books I want and buying more. Also just been requesting the ones I really want to read
ReplyDeleteAnd those new shiny ones that tempt me, yes those I do have to say yes to somtimes
DeleteA good portion of mine are from publishers but on the other hand I do grab from the library a ton too. I wonder what my % would be.
ReplyDeleteIt was just for the last 30 books, but it seems right
DeleteHonestly, I am really trying to balance our my review books with my own books or audiobooks. Ever since I joined the romance package on audible, I have been listening to a ton more audiobooks lately, so its more half and half right now.
ReplyDeleteOmg, yeah, I know if I joined that I would never have time for review books anymore, lol
DeleteI'd say I'm 90+% review books, but they are almost all books I would have purchase had I not gotten the review book. As for audiobooks, I'm about 50-50. Love Luci and S!
ReplyDeleteMy audio os mostly reviw, except for audiosync free ones, and I totally need to check out the library ones again, I took at a look at one library but that one was all meh
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