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What a fantastic reading journal! I love it and cannot wait to use it this year. It's super easy to use, and beautifully designed.

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As a first time book journalist, sofar I'm loving logging my books electronically like this. It is really well put together and there are lots of free stickers. I do wish it had a bigger page for preorders or new releases. I'm not as familiar with Goodnote, so it has been a bit of a learning curve.

Also, it is recommended that you use this with a free at such as Goodnotes, but I wasn't able to find a free version. Gootnotes 6 is now a yearly subscription. It wasn't too much, so I ended up buying it this year, but I'm not sure if I'll continue to do that in the future.

I can't believe you gave this away for free

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Love the new colors, stickers, and pages. This journal makes keeping track of my reads fun and easy. The additional pages are a great addition and I'm very much looking forward to the challenges. Especially the We Need Diverse Books challenge. The stickers are so cute and I'm excited to add them to my journal.

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The idea of the NetGalley Reading Journal is amazing and it is so well laid out. I love the bright colors of the sunshine palette.

Likes: I love the different activities and the flexibilities of them like the Habit tracker where you can choose what habits you have when reading and follow them, you can pick what challenge you want to follow (A-Z or categories), or a bingo board. The book review page is a great way to keep your reviews well organized for individual books on a page as well as a way to place many books on a page with just a way to keep track of how you read the book.

Dislikes: You have to use a separate note taking app, which you have to pay for, to actually use the journal and it is VERY confusing. I am pretty technologically savvy and I have been playing around with it for over an hour and am getting very frustrated with it and since I keep track of my books on Goodreads anyway, I’m not going to use this journal.

Thank you to NetGalley and We Are Bookish for the ARC

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Uhhh, how sweet is this reading journal?! With tab links and all?! Be sure to download the User Guide as well, it really helps understand how to best utilize this amazing journal. Can't wait to track all my reads here this year. Shooting for 75!

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I really enjoyed the journal layout! It covered all the areas needed for my reviews. The colour scheme is really nice, too.

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I enjoy the yearly journals. I wish they could be put in a physical form. I prefer writing in a book

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This journal is very useful for book lovers. You have different stats and a nice perspective over your reading in a year. I'm so happy I got a copy of this journal and I cant wait to share my full year in books. Really highly recommended!

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Cute, easy to use, and had a lot of options depending on what you were looking for in your book review.

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I love this reading journal! This will definitely help mr keep track of my books physically. It will be fun to keep track of them this way and allow me to be creative. Seems easy to use as well which is always a bonus!

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I love this. It's so cool that NetgGalley put together a fun digital space to talk more about our books!

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I didn't know I needed this as much as I did. I really enjoy the format and how I can keep my reading plan organized and on time.

Thank you!!!

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This is amazing!! Can't wait to fill it in. Some great prompts to capture your reading journey, making for some great #bookstagram content too! Thank you.

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I'm not a fan of having digital diaries or journals, but this one gave me ideas for my paper journaling! It is neat and cosy, it does have all the metrics needed for documenting one's experience with NetGalley and a few fun activities at the end. It is so colourful and pretty, I consider printing it out

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Really easy to follow and is well thought out. It’s clear a lot of effort went into this, and I’m really enjoying using it!

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Loving the journal! I uploaded it to the notability app on my iPad and it works great. Looking forward to trying the stickers soon.

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A really helpful guide for keeping track of all my books read and that I need to review. I love that is can be utilized as a digital version or printed. Now the only challenge is to actually use it and write the reviews that I need to this year.

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Not for me. I tried loading this onto Kobo to annotate it as I went along with my Kobo stylus but it felt a little pointless. I find it much easier to keep track of my reading on Storygraph and in a notebook. I don't know how I would have added pages etc from within the kobo and it was hard to move between sections within it in this format.

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I use to simply keep a running list of the books that I read in a year on my phone but now I can upgrade that list with the NetGalley Reading Journal. This will take my reading to the next level!

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A perfect book journal for those of us that loves keep tracking of all the books we read.
Reading journal that just keeps getting better and better.

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