#135 - A new community for book lovers!

#135

                December 19, 2022

            #135 - A new community for book lovers!

                Announcing our new Mastodon server for book lovers around the world and discussing all of the things we have to do in only two weeks! 😅 😁

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#135 | 19 December 2022

A new community for book lovers...

If you're a Twitter user, you may have heard of Mastodon? It's the currently fast-growing, self-hosted main alternative. 

When it came to setting up a presence there, we decided to host our own server and create a new space for book lovers around the world to gather! 🙌🏾

You don't need to be a StoryGraph member to join! We just wanted to be a part of facilitating great bookish conversations and community.

Come check it out at bookstodon.thestorygraph.com and tell your friends! 😁

If you'd like to follow The StoryGraph, Rob, or myself there, you can do so at the following links:

bookstodon.thestorygraph.com/@thestorygraph

bookstodon.thestorygraph.com/@rob

bookstodon.thestorygraph.com/@nodunayo

Since last time...

The last two weeks have seen the launch of lots of new stats! 🎉

First we've got DNF (Did Not Finish) stats, including two new, unique data points:

Everybody is having a lot of fun sharing and discussing their 'average progress through' and 'average time with' a book before DNFing it. We've seen so much variety!

And we've also got new charts detailing which of your custom tags show up on the books read or featured in a given time period:

I love how people are already using these charts to do things like incentivise themselves to borrow more from the library or figure out which recommendation sources aren't working for them.

In other news, our official 2023 reading challenges are ready to go and we'll be launching them on the 21st! 🥳

Next two weeks

Although there's still a lot of stats work we want to get done, there are three other things we need to focus on for the final two weeks of the year:

The redesign
The 2022 Reading Wrap-Up (launching Jan 1st 2023!)
January Pages 2023

Wish us luck and please send all of your best productivity vibes! 🍀

What I'm reading

I will hopefully squeeze in one more Toni Morrison with Song of Solomon as part of the (super slow) chronological read that I'm doing!

Have a fantastic rest of the year,

Nadia

P.S. Know somebody who's an avid reader or would enjoy following along with this journey? Please do forward this email to them! Thank you. :-)

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