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Weekly Geeks 2009-44 Wrap-up: The process

This Weekly Geeks prompt came from Guest Geek Trisha of Eclectic/Eccentric, and she posed a lot of questions under the general heading "How Do You Handle a Book?"

What path do books take through our hands?

How do you choose what to read? Is it random or planned? Based on your mood, challenges, titles, covers, topic?

What process do you use for reading? Do you take notes while reading? Annotate your books? Just read?

What happens when you are done reading? Do you wait to review or write immediately? Do you revisit and revise before posting?

What other tasks do you go through after reading a book? Is your blog the only place you post a review? Do you keep lists of readings? Catalog genre, page numbers, gender of authors, etc.?

What happens to the book when you are done with it? Does it end up in your home library? Go back to a public library? BookMooch?

Trisha answers her own questions, including a detailed description of her post-reading/reviewing process, and mentions that she's an immediate reviewer - she starts on her review as soon as she closes the book.

Melydia of Utter Randomonium notes that this WG seemed almost like a questionnaire, and structures her post to respond to it accordingly, highlighting how her BookCrossing activity influences her entire reading process.

At Here's to Us, Allegra mentions that nearly all of her books come from her local library, and that she rarely posts her reviews anywhere other than her blog - that's enough for her!

Weekend Reader of Too Many Books, Too Little Time has simplified the "what happens to the book when you're done?" issue by doing most of her reading on her Kindle.

Molly at My Cozy Book Nook elaborates on her "process" for adding a book to her TBR stack.

The questions in this week's prompt were summed up as follows:

Overall, if you had to give someone a "How To" list for your dealings with any particular book, what would it look like?

From It's All About Books, Suey's response to that query included a few things that sounded familiar ("buy book," "sit it on the TBR shelf for a long time," and "haul it all over the place," once it finally comes OFF the shelf).

Thanks to everyone who participated this week, and check back tomorrow for a new Weekly Geeks!

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Weekly Geeks 2009-44 Wrap-up: The process + WG round-up