Welcome to another TTT! This week’s topic invites you to share your favorite online resources for book lovers! These could be blogs, apps, websites, podcasts, YouTube or TikTok channels, you name it. I love discovering new people to follow and resources to bookmark, so I’m excited to see what you share!
1. Hoopla
Check out digital books, audibooks, and music with your library card (provided your library participates)!
2. Goodreads (duh)
I would be lost without Goodreads. I keep track of everything in my personal library on there, along with all the books I’ve read and want to read.
3. Chirp
This place requires no subscription at all, and has amazing discounts on audiobooks (up to 95% off). I get an email every day with deals in genres I like. And these are not obscure titles either. These are NYT bestsellers and books from popular authors. Fluffy by Julia Kent is .99 today! Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen is $1.99. Chirp has an app you can download, and it’s really easy to use. You can also listen on your computer or Alexa devices. If you like audiobooks, this is your place!
4. Scribd
This is an online digital library that you subscribe to for $9.99 a month. You can check out audiobooks, ebooks, magazines, podcasts, and more. I’ve got a free trial right now, and their selection is huge!
5. BookBub
I love getting an email of free and discounted ebooks sent to me everyday. You even get to choose the genres you love.
6. What Should I Read Next?
This fun website has you entire the title of a book you loved. The website analyzes your pick and then spits out the title of another book you’ll probably love, too.
7. Etsy
You can probably find handmade merch from any bookish fandom on here, plus bookish gifts of all sorts.
8. Recaptains
The creators of this blog recap previous books in series so that when the next book comes out, you can read what happened in the previous one and not feel lost. It’s usually a short, detailed refresh of everything important that happened. They focus primarily on YA books, but I have needed them a time or two in my life!
9. Trigger Warning Database
You can search by title/author or trigger, and it’s so helpful to know going in to a story that it will be a pleasant reading experience.
10. Hot Dudes Reading
Need I say more?
Always loving discovering some possible new bookish resources! :)
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For your international readers, just a heads up that #1 and #3 (and possibly 4?) are US/Canada only :-(
Libby/Overdrive (https://www.overdrive.com/apps/libby/) seems to be more international – at least I know it works in Denmark :-D
Ah! I forgot to include Recaptains and other book series recap sites. I think I had at least 2 written down somewhere. Etsy! Didn’t even think of that one. I struggled with this topic as you might see! Lol.
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What a great idea for a TTT. I think we will all find lots of new resources. Thanks, Jana.
Etsy is awesome!
You mentioned some that are new to me! Thanks!
Hoopla and Overdrive are my two favorite resources for books. Love my local library!
Thanks for this list! The Trigger Warning database looks super useful and I’m glad to know it exists!
Good list! I went rogue this week with all the reading challenges coming up in November. How about Favorite Reading Challenges/literature months/etc as a topic?
I’m a HUGE Goodreads user, too! I love that site for lots of reasons.
Happy TTT!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
What a great post! I like the Recaptains website, what a great idea! Sometimes I forget some of the key points for a previous book in a series and then, I feel at a disadvantage reading a new book in the series. This is terrific! I keep forgetting about Hoopla too and I see that it was #1 on your list. Thanks for the post.
I especially like What I Should Read Next from your list. I hadn’t heard of Recaptions, which sounds like a great idea.
I love this topic and plan to check in on every blog ;) Several of yours were new to me and I will be exploring them further, thanks for sharing!
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