Hello everybody and welcome to Books Unbound, the podcast where we Unbind Books

to get to their hearts with your hosts, us. It's Ariel and...

Raylene.

Yo, what up? We are excited. This is going to be a fun episode because this is a bonus episode.

This episode shouldn't even exist, you guys.

But you'll be glad it does.

Because there's book call and book data.

The two most important things.

Exactly. So these two things are fun, they're exciting,

but they didn't fit into any other episode. And so we mashed them together, and we've been doing

this for the last few years, mashing these two things together where we are going to do a Christmas

book hall, because listen, that's fun. That's a nice time. It's what we want. Also, we are going to do a Christmas book call because listen that's fun that's a nice time

it's what we want also we are going to do be doing a deep dive and when I say deep

really really means deep I'm going to be we're going to be doing a deep dive into community

stats now you might be thinking, oh, boy, does that

sound boring? You couldn't be more wrong. So we, I created this survey two years ago. I released

the first one in 2021. It got 657 responses. Respectable. Yeah. Respectable, for sure, respectable.

Then I released it again the following year in 2022,

and it got 1,532 responses.

Huge growth, huge growth.

Yeah.

This year, we got 2,061 responses.

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