#280 - Reading Confessions: Special Editions A Money Grab! 🦀

Books Unbound

Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay

Books, Arts

4.8 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

It's time to hear reading confessions, hot takes, and reader problems from our listeners! On this episode we have someone who hates the special edition boom, someone who doesn't like half star ratings, two people who are reading too many audiobooks (is that possible?), someone who is having an existential crisis about borrowing too many ebooks from the library, and a bookseller who is struggling to live her 84 Charing Cross Road dreams!

Links mentioned:

Article about special editions: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/books/deluxe-book-editions-decorated-edges.html

Article about ebooks at libraries: https://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2020/09/hold-on-ebooks-cost-how-much-the-inconvenient-truth-about-library-ecollections/

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Chapters:

00:00:00 - Hair mods

00:05:37 - Rae’s Week

00:07:36 - Ariel’s Oscars Watchlist

00:10:12 - 2 Updates

00:11:04 - CONFESSIONS!

00:25:04 - Half Star Ratings

00:32:17 - Inventory Dilemma

00:45:19 - Ebooks, Audiobooks, and the Library System

00:59:14 - 90% Audiobooks

01:09:41 - On Reading Speeds

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Books Unbound, the podcast where we Unbind books to get to their hearts with your host, us. It's Ariel and...
0:16.5	Ray Green.
0:18.8	So true. I feel like it's even more obvious with the bangs for so much.
0:23.1	Yeah.
0:23.3	Yeah.
0:23.8	I also re-died my hair like before the last time we recorded.
0:27.3	So, and I only have washed it once since then.
0:29.9	I've been like really holding back because I want to stay green as long as possible.
0:33.9	Yeah.
0:34.8	So yeah.
0:35.7	She green and crazy.
0:36.9	One of my little week updates for you, weak as in W-E-E-E-K, not weak as in strength,
0:45.9	is that I got a haircut, which I bet.
0:50.2	I don't know if anyone can notice, but I noticed.
0:52.8	I was going to ask you before we started recording, but I was like, I don't know. Maybe she didn't. Is it worth asking? I don't know. I got a haircut yesterday, actually. And so it's a bit shorter. It's not that much shorter. Like, we only took a couple of inches off. It was not a haircut for getting a
1:11.5	haircut. It was more of a maintenance trim. At least that's what I clicked on the online form.
1:18.1	Maintenance trim, extra half an hour for long hair, I had to add. Wow. But my hairstylist
1:25.6	is the best. They are so talented and they like are specifically good at curly hair.
1:31.8	Yeah.
1:32.2	And so and like people that don't have curly hair don't know that like you have to go to a special
1:38.4	hair person for curly hair because I've been to places that are like, oh yeah, I can do both.
1:43.0	And then I'm like, no, you couldn't.
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