It's time to hear reading confessions, hot takes, and reader problems from our listeners! On this episode we have someone who hates the special edition boom, someone who doesn't like half star ratings, two people who are reading too many audiobooks (is that possible?), someone who is having an existential crisis about borrowing too many ebooks from the library, and a bookseller who is struggling to live her 84 Charing Cross Road dreams!

Links mentioned:

Article about special editions: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/books/deluxe-book-editions-decorated-edges.html

Article about ebooks at libraries: https://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2020/09/hold-on-ebooks-cost-how-much-the-inconvenient-truth-about-library-ecollections/

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Chapters:

00:00:00 - Hair mods

00:05:37 - Rae’s Week

00:07:36 - Ariel’s Oscars Watchlist

00:10:12 - 2 Updates

00:11:04 - CONFESSIONS!

00:25:04 - Half Star Ratings

00:32:17 - Inventory Dilemma

00:45:19 - Ebooks, Audiobooks, and the Library System

00:59:14 - 90% Audiobooks

01:09:41 - On Reading Speeds