LATE:#FridayReads

See how I am?

But it’s Monday, and I will get my post for today done, shortly.

I’m busy filling out an application and one of the things I am telling this employer about is #FridayReads, in all its long and messy glory. Long because it’s been 14 years since I started the hashtag; messy because I tried some different things with it, including running it as a marketing business, and that was a crash-and-burn lesson learned.

#FridayReads had to go free, and it has done so since around 2012. Eleven years of people discovering that there was a hashtag where lots of other readers were sharing the books they loved, and eleven years of different kinds of institutions and businesses using #FridayReads to create community. I thought this week I’d focus on sharing tweets from some of those places, specifically.

The Spokane County Library District/@SpCoLibraryDist wants to know what its patrons are reading:

https://twitter.com/SpCoLibraryDist/status/1669873791277715456?s=20

Feminist Press/@Feminist Press has a fantastic #FridayReads title:

https://twitter.com/FeministPress/status/1669789573126168596?s=20

How much fun is it to know that Penguin Random House has its own library?

https://twitter.com/PRHLibrary/status/1669773357108146176?s=20

The venerable The Horn Book/@hornbook children’s-literature journal uses #FridayReads:

https://twitter.com/HornBook/status/1669770626075164695?s=20

And so does the Nevada State Library Commission!

https://twitter.com/NLC_News/status/1669766805966004224?s=20

It’s such a wonderful thing for me to watch #FridayReads grow and change. . . and for others to try different hashtags and ways of forming bookish communities online. Our methods of reading and communicating do change but we all still want to get great recommendations from people we trust.