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LindyI will abandon a book if I‘m not enjoying it, which is why I rarely have 1- or 2-star books on my goodreads shelf. If I give a book 3 stars, I can confidently say that I‘m glad to have read it, that it was worth my time. And I love the experience when a book that seemed like a 3-star read suddenly shifts up to 4 or 5 stars as I get further in.3y
Kristin_ReadsGood article! I count DNFs toward my pages read total but not book count total. That has freed me to put down a book at any point and not feel bad about it.(edited) 3y
marleedOh interesting. I‘m typically interested in what I pick up to read and for a variety of reasons. I usually want to finish them but if tempted to DNF, I‘m curious to consider what it was about me or my mood that didn‘t connect so I keep reading on. Every once in a while I fall into something I‘m offended by and those I really need to DNF because they crawl into my psyche in a creepy way.3y
rwmgYhere are some books I realise are just not for me in the first 20 or 30 pages, there are others where at some point I will realise it's taking forever to finish because I would rather do almost anything than go back to it.3y
LaughterhpI love this! Sometimes I know I‘m not going to love a book and I‘ll put it down. Other times I force myself to read books and it takes forever! I have a shelf on my goodreads to DNF books and it doesn‘t go towards my book count.3y
JoyBlueThanks for sharing! I have started DNFing much sooner and more often, myself. I still occasionally read too long into a book that's not cutting it for me. I think I'll take this to heart.
I do the same thing as@Kristin_Reads in terms of keeping track of my DNF pages even though I don't count those books in my total books read count. It doesn't show up on Goodreads, but at least *I know* the truth.3y
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I do the same thing as @Kristin_Reads in terms of keeping track of my DNF pages even though I don't count those books in my total books read count. It doesn't show up on Goodreads, but at least *I know* the truth. 3y