{"id":574,"date":"2010-01-08T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbicmsblog.reedbusiness.com\/elogic_660000266\/2010\/01\/08\/prevent-fines-record-reading-with-this-handy-calendar\/"},"modified":"2010-01-08T08:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T08:10:00","slug":"prevent-fines-record-reading-with-this-handy-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=574","title":{"rendered":"Prevent Fines, Record Reading with This Handy Calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/articles\/blog\/660000266\/20100101\/overduecal3.jpg\">Last week when we asked readers to share their <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/blog\/660000266\/post\/20051602.html\" rel=\"noopener\">Reading Resolutions<\/a>, did you include plans to return your library books on time OR record more of the books you&#8217;ve read? If so (or if not), feast your eyes on this handy and inexpensive ($4) tool for logging one&#8217;s borrowing and\/or reading!<\/p>\n<p> My&nbsp;favorite guilty pleasure blog, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.designspongeonline.com\/2009\/12\/the-overdue-book-calendar.html\" rel=\"noopener\">Design Sponge<\/a>,&nbsp;recently featured the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/view_listing.php?listing_id=37283161\" rel=\"noopener\">Overdue Book Calendar<\/a> available from Etsy seller <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/auntjune\" rel=\"noopener\">Aunt June<\/a> (a.k.a.&nbsp;Lauren Hunt), and I was charmed, charmed, charmed by this clever creation! Each month of the calendar&nbsp;features drawings of 13-15 books with blank spines, on which you can record the titles of your library books and their due dates. OR (this is what I&#8217;m thinking&#8230;) you could use&nbsp;the calendar as a simplified reading log. Instead of recording books you <em>borrow<\/em>, record the books you&#8217;ve <em>read<\/em>,&nbsp;and the date when you did so. If you write small enough, you&nbsp;could even record a short review beneath&nbsp;or alongside the book&#8217;s title information. That way at the end of 2010, you&#8217;ll have a wonderful visual reminder of all the books you read this year! (Or, if 13-15 spines per month won&#8217;t cut it for you, you&#8217;ll at least have a decent sampling.)<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"www.etsy.com\/view_listing.php?listing_id=37283161\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/articles\/blog\/660000266\/20100101\/overduecal.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> For $4, Aunt June will e-mail you a PDF of the calendar. You can print out as many 8.5 x 11&nbsp;copies as you&#8217;d like on&nbsp;your home computer or&nbsp;get your calendar(s) printed at a local copy shop.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"www.etsy.com\/view_listing.php?listing_id=37283161\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/articles\/blog\/660000266\/20100101\/overduecal2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> What a great New Year&#8217;s gift for all of your reader friends!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week when we asked readers to share their Reading Resolutions, did you include plans to return your library books on time OR record more of the books you&rsquo;ve read? If so (or if not), feast your eyes on this handy and inexpensive ($4) tool for logging one&rsquo;s borrowing and\/or reading! My&nbsp;favorite guilty pleasure blog, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}