Fun fact: the average reader always packs more books than they’ll realistically finish. 📚👜
Why? Because options matter. Mood shifts. Curiosity expands. Having choices keeps you reading consistently instead of stalling out. 💡
Pro tip: keep a “current read,” a “backup read,” and a “just in case” book. Your future self will thank you. 😄

I have noticed that I dont read like I used to in school.

So here are my tips I’ve learned

•Put phone away

●limit screen time

•start the limit slow, like 10 minutes

●use a book you WILL like

●dont be afraid of writing words that you dont understand and look them up. (It Helps, I’ve done it)

● take notes and look over them

● start with a small book

● try and keep track of the times you are getting better ✨️

●just have a good time reading 📚

It’s not a race, we now a days have phone laptops. ipads make it a bit harder to focus on, and I understand that’s my issue right now. So just be gentle and dont overthink or get the biggest book to act smart.

●Hope this helps●

Top 5 Mistakes to Avoid When Selling Used Books

Are you thinking about selling your used books? Before you do, make sure you’re not falling into the most common traps that can cost you money or slow down your sales.

In our latest guide, we cover the top 5 mistakes people make when trying to sell used books — and how to avoid them. From pricing errors to platform mismatches, this is the checklist every book seller needs.

📖 Read the full post on Substack:
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“Der Reisende ("o viajante”, em tradução livre), um romance de 1938 escrito por Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, conta a história do empresário Otto Silbermann, que foge de Berlim logo após a Noite dos Cristais, evento de perseguição aos judeus que marcou o início do Holocausto.
Muitos de seus amigos judeus haviam sido levados pelos nazistas. E Silbermann decidiu pegar uma série de trens através da Alemanha, na tentativa, sem sucesso, de deixar o país.

O autor do romance, cujo pai era judeu e a mãe protestante, na verdade fugiu da Alemanha nazista em 1935. Foi primeiro para a Suécia, depois para a Noruega e, em seguida, para a Inglaterra. Isso foi logo após a promulgação das leis antissemitas e racistas de Nurembergue, em 15 de setembro de 1935. O pai de Boschwitz havia morrido durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial, e sua irmã, emigrado para os territórios palestinos em 1933. 
Boschwitz escreveu o romance no exílio. Publicado pela primeira vez no Reino Unido em 1939 sob o título The Man Who Took Trains (o homem que pegava trens), o livro não teve muito impacto na época e saiu de circulação. Ulrich Boschwitz morreu em 1942, aos 27 anos, quando o navio em que viajava foi torpedeado por um submarino alemão no Atlântico Norte.
Mas quando a primeira edição em língua alemã saiu, em 2018, foi aclamada como uma descoberta literária.”

P.S. Hoje é considerado o dia internacional em memória às vítimas do holocausto…

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#romances
#drama #miaconnolly
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Tips on How to format books | Formatting a Book? | Making Books better

Formatting a book is an crucial task of giving your book a desired finish. Here are a few tips that may help you format your overall book better.

Read More: https://youronlinepublicist.com/formatting-a-book/

Tips on How to format books | Formatting a Book? | Making Books better

Formatting a book is an crucial task of giving your book a desired finish. Here are a few tips that may help you format your overall book better.

Read More: https://youronlinepublicist.com/formatting-a-book/

Cosmo reading up on Bauhaus. Great book Bauhaus by Jeannine Fiedler and Peter Feierabend. #book #design #cat #booktips (at Port Moody, British Columbia)
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How To Read More Books: Create variety. 📗📕📔

To get you into the swing of things, start small and try reading short books or light reads. Alternate your subject matter to create variety and keep things interesting. If you usually read fiction, try non-fiction for a change.

Tips and suggestions: what are you reading this week?📖

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These 3 things will KILL your heroes and infuriate your readers! Don’t do it! In this video, we take a look at the TV show Ratched and how they tried to turn their anti-hero into a hero half-way through the season and why IMO, it doesn’t work. Also, we’re going to look at the Hobbit and why the 3rd film flopped.

Do you want to become a published author? Do you have a manuscript on your desk just begging to be sent in to a publishing house? In this post—part one of a three part series describing the different routes to publishing, we are going to talk about Self-Publishing. What it is—what it’s NOT—and what it costs.

First off, let’s start with what self-publishing is not. Self-publishing is not something you do when you can’t find anyone to traditionally publish your story. If you are having problems finding someone to publish your story, first consider why this is? Is you story ready to be published? Does it need further editing? Input from other authors? Because the self-publishing market it tough—perhaps even tougher than the traditional publishing route. Every falls on the self-publishing author and their often small pockets. Marketing, cover design, copy edits—so if your product is not ready to be published or could see some more revisions, don’t try to rush the process. Take the time to really sit and look at your Manuscript to make sure it is all that it could be.

So if self-publishing is not really a second alternative to traditional publishing, then why do people do it? Easy answer: Money. With traditional publishing, an author will see most of the revenue of their sales going to other places. Often traditional publishers will not even look at a manuscript unless it is submitted by a literary agent. A literary agent works on commission—usually around 15% of the author’s product goes to them. Then there is the publishing house’s cut. Since the publisher is paying the overhead fee of actually publishing the book, the bigger houses often take upwards of 90% of the total book sales. Now this might not be true for all publishing houses—some indie publishing houses have higher percentages going to the author, but often the do not have advances paid to the author upon signing—so basically no money upfront but the potential for money later. I’ll talk more about traditional publisher in a later post, so if you like this blog, be sure to follow me. Also be sure to like and comment about more content you’d like to see.  

So if a self-publishing author is able to take home almost 100% of their sales after publication, why doesn’t everyone go this route? Once again, the answer is money. All of those costs mentioned before that the traditional publishing house was paying for—well that now falls onto the author. So that’s things like cover design, editing, formatting, distribution, marketing—all of those things cost money and now it’s the author footing the entire bill.

So how much does it actually cost to self-publish a book? Unfortunately like most things in life, that depends. Does the author hire a publicity company to promote the book? Do they hire the best illustrator in the business to create the cover for their novel? How long is this stinking book? The more pages, the more it’s going to cost to print the book. Really, a person could pay as little or as much as they wanted on self-publishing a novel. In the end, however, the book may or may not sell.

There are so many options to go with in self-publishing—so many things to spend that hard earned cash on, but what are the most important things to actually fork over the cash on?

First off: Cover. Every heard the phrase: Never judge a book by it’s cover? Well, in the real world, that is the FIRST thing every reader does. If you can’t get your reader to pick up that first copy, then it doesn’t matter how fantastic the inside is. So don’t skimp on that cover. That being said—don’t always go for the most expensive either. Even if you get a world-renowned cover artist, that generally won’t matter to your readers unless they’re looking at the acknowledgement pages of all their favorite books. Instead, go for good quality rather than high price tags.

Another thing you don’t need to skimp on is the editing fees. The last thing you want your readers to find is a typo on the first page! Some reader will literally chuck the book across the room. There is nothing more unprofessional than this. And don’t think this is something you can do yourself. There would be nothing worse than to spend hours formatting your book so the pages line up perfectly on Microsoft Word to then find them helter-skelter in the margins of your book. You’re an author—a creator of worlds and lives. Let someone who’s a professional in margins handle the other part.

So those are the two major things to spend your money on when self-publishing. I hope this has helped—wait, what? What about advertising you say?

While it is true you can spend money on advertisements, I would not recommend putting all of your money in this. Think about how you view ads. Do you scroll past them or hit skip? If you have that intriguing copy, that’s great, but most of the best marketing tactics can be completed for free. And that’s through social media. Having a pinterest, a Twitter, a blog, these are things you can do for free. Now one marketing thing you can do—and I hope that you will do this—is get an actual website and a newsletter up. Keep in mind that any website or blog on another site like Tumblr or Reddit is not yours. It is owned by another company and you can be dumped at any time. So it’s important to have your own website and newsletter to keep in touch with your fans.

Next week, I’m going to be posting an article about Traditional Publishing then a subsequent post about Vanity Publishing—both of which are routes that I have personal experience in.

does anyone have any booktips? i wanna read but idk what :-/

¿Qué harías si recibierás una piedra del perdón ?Después del primer libro que les recomende “ Mi lista de deseos” descubrí otro libro de la autora Lori Nelson Spielman y decidí incluirlo a mi lista, pues me gustan mucho los libros con mensajes que nos ayudan a reflexiomar y esté libro no deja de ser la excepción.“Dulce Perdón” nos incita a reflexionar en nuestras acciones, a analizar nuestras relaciones y sentimientos más incomodos  y nos invita a hacer las pases con nuestro pasado, a cerrar círculos, a darnos segundas oportunidades. Nos hace entender que somos humanos, que todos nos equivocamos, pero lo más importante nos demuestra que el perdón no es más que una carga de la cual nosotros mismos debemos de liberarnos.Las piedras del perdón simbolizan nuestros sentimientos de los que vivimos presos muchas de las veces por mucho tiempo.  ¿Te has puesto ha pensar a cuántas personas pudiste haber lastimado o de las cuales tú mismo te sentiste lastimado.? ¿Si tuvieras que hacer una lista de personas con las cuáles deberías de disculparte, quíen estaría en está lista ? y si fuesé al revés y recibieras una piedra del perdón con una disculpa, ¿qué harías?, ¿la tomarías?.Cuentáme…..

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Persian Ceramics from the 9th to the 14th Century

Booktips, “ The forgotten garden “ Kate Morton

Booktips, “ my mothers shadow “ Nikola Scott

Booktips

Blommor till Algy av Daniel Keyes

Boken publicerades 1966 och har sålt miljoner i exemplar. Detta är väldigt häftigt och imponerande, men boken har i sig själv något helt unikt. Charlie Gordon föddes med ovanligt lågt IQ. Detta berörde honom inte speciellt mycket men han ville bli smartare, så han kunde skaffa vänner och prata om saker som de andra pratade om.

Charlie fick det han önskade. Tydligen så är han perfekt för att utföra en experimentell operation på, som kan öka hans intelligens. Denna typ av operation har tidigare bara lyckats på Algy, labbets mus.

Bokens format består av dagbokssidor som är skrivna ur Charlies perspektiv, innan experimentet gjorts och efteråt. På så sätt kan forskarna analysera hans utveckling, men detta ger också oss (läsarna) en möjlighet att lära känna Charlie och följa med på hans otroliga resa.

Blommor till Algy är en berättelse som utmanar ens tro och får oss att fundera över etiska och moraliska frågor. Den är tuff att läsa känslomässigt så förbered näsdukar. Till sist, boken är enastående, läs den och du kommer inte att bli besviken. Charlies berättelse kommer följa med dig en lång tid framöver.

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Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

The novel was published in 1966 and has been sold in millions of copies. This is super cool and impressive; however, the book has something unique of its own. Charlie Gordon was born with unusual low IQ. This didn’t bother Charlie much but he wanted to get smarter, so he could get friends and talk about things that the others talked about.

Charlie got what he wished for. Apparently, he’s the perfect subject to perform an experimental surgery on, that can increase his intelligence. This kind of experiment has only been successful on Algernon, the lab’s mouse.

The book’s format is diary entries from Charlie’s perspective, which begin before the experiment takes place and during the aftermath. This is how the doctors analyses his progress, but this also gives us (the readers) a chance to get to know Charlie and join his incredible journey.

Flowers for Algernon is a story that challenges belief and make us ponder over ethical and moral questions. It’s heavy to read emotionally so prepare tissues. To sum things up, the story is beautiful, read it and you won’t get disappointed. Charlie’s story will stay with you for a long time afterwards.

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Boooktips, The seven sisters series. Lucinda Riley

Book 1, The seven sisters

Book 2, The storm sister