These all sound like such good changes.

I can’t imagine reviewing every book I read! Kudos to those can do it, but I need to be choosier. :)

I've definitely also become a lot more choosy about which books to read and I don't force myself to review every single book I read anymore either. I do still need to work on DNF'ing more though :)

Another Goodreads lover here! (and totally agree with you on Storygraph, that learning curve has proved very difficult for me...) And I hear you on the great freedom that a single DNF can bring :)
~Lex (lexlingua.co)

Great list! I have an app that I sometimes use for longer quotes. It takes the photo and transcribes it into text that you can copy into your quote library or review so you don't have to type it up. So smart. I'm a sucker for collecting quotes too. :-)

OOh nice! I still take notes while I read as well, because I feel like I can be scatter brained at the best of times and I might not remember something simple, so I take notes constantly, pretty much up to the halfway point because after that anything else plot wise doesn't need to be in the review for spoiler reasons and I rarely use everything I write even prior to that point! I also take very detailed notes to keep for myself if it's an ongoing series.

I didn't use to like DNFing either but nowadays if I'm not hooked within a certain amount of pages, I'm done. There are some I am willing to try at a later date if I feel like it just wasn't the right time for that kind of book. But I feel like books I've DNF'd are still very low in number. I stopped writing mini dnf reviews because I just didn't feel like bothering especially if some were dnf so early on.

I am however someone who needs to write the review as soon as I finish the book. I want to get everything down while it's still fresh in my head. I've learned most of my other blogging friends are the complete opposite! Lol. I won't let myself start my next read until the review is written, so that's my incentive to get it done! Lol.

I do still read physical books primarily. Reading on my kindle feels like a chore most times. I guess because my screen isn't the "real" page and for whatever reason my brain treats it like that and I read super slow when reading on it and I don't like that. I read slow enough with real books so reading on a kindle makes me feel like it will take 2 weeks or more to finish a book I could get done within a week if it were real and in my hands!

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Your list is excellent! Isn't funny how when we all first got into this reviewing game we felt called to say YES to every book we could get our hands on...then we got overwhelmed...and now we say YES a little less often? This is probably the most repeated item I've seen on almost everyone's lists today. We all meant well, but forgot about things like work and families and other life stuff. LOL!

I can really relate to a lot of these! Especially accepting too many review books early on, and slowly learning to say no and request fewer books. (Like you, I still request more than I can handle, though.) And I wish I were better about taking notes when I'm reading.

Here's my TTT post for this week.

So many of these changes resonate with me! I have found myself making a lot of these changes, too. And it seems that DNFing more is probably the most popular choice this week! I've seen it on a lot of lists.

I don't know if I'm where you saw the "take picture of quotes" thing, but I do that too. It's just so much easier than trying to write down every quote—and then remembering where I put the paper I wrote it on, LOL!

My TTT this week: https://bookwyrmknits.com/2024/10/22/top-ten-tuesday-the-books-they-are-a-changin/

There's very few books on my DNF shelf... on a scale of 5 to 1, 5 being the best, 1 being the worst, a DNF for me is -1. When I was a kid if I didn't like it I put it down. Now as an adult I tend to power through.

https://getlostinlit.blogspot.com/2024/10/top-ten-changed-reading-habits.html

My older blogging sister…….Our reading lives are similar in so many ways! Except in IRL I’m older! 😂😂😂 Choosy Suzie is adorbs though! I’m a firm believer in my blog-my way! I read and review in ways that make sense to me! Not providing written reviews for every book I read has been freeing! I record and give star ratings for every book on GR and I’m selective on what I feature on the blog. Taking notes saves my life! I always think I’ll remember but those impressions quickly fade. I’m always seeing something in my notes that I know I would have forgotten in relying on my memory alone. I grow pickier with every passing year and DNFing no longer bothers me! Great post! ~Carol @ ReadingLadies

I also used to accept WAY too many review copies. They've really dropped off lately and it's given me so much more freedom in what I read and I'm really loving it. I used to feel way too obligated to read books that were sent to me, even those that were unsolicited.