{"id":1356,"date":"2012-01-10T01:44:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T01:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2012-01-26T22:03:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T03:03:25","slug":"2012-book-reading-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2012\/01\/2012-book-reading-challenges.html","title":{"rendered":"2012 Book Reading Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a new Kindle now, and LOVE it. Reading on the iPad is also fun &#8211; I use it on night mode, so that reduces the glare. But the Kindle is zero glare, very much like a book, and oh-so-light. Fits right in the palm of my hand (yes, I have a large palm \ud83d\ude42 )! I like the fact that the Kindle is a dedicated eReader; with the iPad it is very easy to get distracted into checking my email\/Twitter\/Facebook . . . Plus I have the 6&#8243; Kindle, which has a cumbersome touchscreen keyboard &#8211; this works great for me, since it dissuades me further from straying too far from my reading knowing that straying will mean laborious touch-screen typing on very small virtual keys.<\/p>\n<p>Which means I am all set to read in 2012. I have signed up for 2 challenges so far \u00a0(<a href=http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2012\/01\/2011-the-year-in-review.html>I completed 2 in 2011<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p>1. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1358\" title=\"logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><em><strong>GoodReads 2012 Reading Challenge<\/strong><\/em> : Goal of 20 books &#8211; you can see the book-tracking widget in my sidebar.<\/p>\n<p>2. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2012EbookChallenge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1357 alignright\" title=\"2012EbookChallenge\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2012EbookChallenge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><em><strong><a href=http:\/\/www.workadayreads.com\/2011\/11\/2012-ebook-challenge-sign-up.html>Workaday Reads 2012 Ebook Challenge<\/a><\/strong><\/em> : Goal to read at CD level, which means 10 ebooks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a new Kindle now, and LOVE it. Reading on the iPad is also fun &#8211; I use it on night mode, so that reduces the glare. But the Kindle is zero glare, very much like a book, and oh-so-light. Fits right in the palm of my hand (yes, I have a large palm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_17000648_17000648":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[68,3,57,16,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-68","category-books","category-challenge","category-of-me","category-status"],"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"sow-carousel-default":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"amodini","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/author\/admin"},"uagb_comment_info":5,"uagb_excerpt":"I have a new Kindle now, and LOVE it. 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