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And that ends my 2025 reads!!!

All in all 154 reads, 146 of them from the library. 56 reads from my TBR and 10 DNFs that I didn't bother listing. And finished 4/6 reading challenges ❤️📚

Public libraries are a godsend, saving me over $2,660 dollars with just the ebooks, audiobooks, and comics borrowed. I have no idea how much they saved me in movies and music 🤣 but probably a lot too.

Here's to more library borrows and reading in 2026!

I didn't receive any books for Christmas, but I did get a BAM gift card, so I bought some for myself. #nevertoomanybooks #neverenoughshelves

More #HiddenLibraries: #StreetBooks, a bicycle library for the unhoused in #PortlandOR.

An interview with founder Laura Moulton and patron (and coauthor) Ben Hodgson: https://lithub.com/the-creators-of-a-bicycle-powered-library-reflect-on-its-humb...

Public Radio: https://www.opb.org/article/2022/03/29/mobile-library-street-books-portland-peop...

Find out more and how to support them: https://streetbooks.org/

Another of the #HiddenLibraries since 2018: #LittleFreeLibrary in a Cottonwood Tree!

Learn more:
📰 https://www.columbian.com/news/2019/may/04/this-woman-turned-her-tree-stump-into...

Short vid:
💜 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G23-hG4PQjg

The first of the #HiddenLibraries is #ThePrisonLibraryProject

The PLP receives over 500 letters each week from inmates in more than 400 state and federal prisons, as well as detention centers across the United States.
 
?Guess what the most requested book is?

Learn more at: https://www.claremontforum.org/prisonlibraryproject

To donate books, visit the book registry at https://bookshop.org/wishlists/781c11ff778dfd09b89f3a3a9bddadb8ca28ae3a

This reminds me of the library tales @WanderingBookaneer has to tell 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 #foreword — they are many and varied! Also: “Every library is valuable in its particular way, and each is an example of the role and importance of libraries in the community of humanity.”

Part 2 of the #toc #librarylove

#TOC part 1. Inspired by @TheBookHippie I might do a deep dive on some of these and share some links. Interested? #librarylove

Thanks to my own personal librarian @WanderingBookaneer who brought these home for me! #libraryhaul #librarylove — And by the way, @WanderingBookaneer is back!!!!! Go show them some love! 💕