Hi! I hope you’d still like to get my reply, I know I’m replying rather late. I’m sorry! How long have you been blogging?
I do listen to audiobooks but I’m doing it less and less often because it’s so hard to find a good one. The main trick for me is to be doing something repetitive while I listen to a book, some housework, for example. If the work is anything that demands more attention, then my focus drifts off. Of course, I always try to preview the audiobook, because sometimes it’s just the narrator’s intonation or the voice itself that can ruin it. I also usually buy audiobooks that go together with the Kindle books I already bought. It’s cheaper this way if you buy a discounted Kindle book. An audiobook for an already purchased Kindle book is always cheaper.
How are you with audiobooks now? Did you give up on them completely?

Hi there! Thank you! I was enjoying making this post. Summarising all the wonders in one place, it was fun :))

I notice you write very profound posts. They are like full size serious articles for magazines (I’m not flattering you, it’s true!). So yes, I imagine what a hard job it would be to write that much and that profoundly about a book you didn’t like. It would probably be exhausting both to write and to read, taking into account there might be not so much positivity in a post. It’s not possible to write a fun post about a bad book every time.

Well, as long as I stopped caring about review copies, I might as well stop caring about the followers’ numbers. But I do. To me they are an indication of how well I’m doing (which is not really fair, because I saw many good blogs with little following because they just keep to themselves and it takes longer time for other people to discover them).

That’s interesting that you don’t read YA. But you do read kid books, right? I’m the opposite. I managed to read YA, but I can’t imagine reading a kid book at this stage. I just don’t have that part in me that would appreciate such a book.

I also still write negative reviews too (and I think they’re useful, I will always look for negative reviews when I am deciding about a book). But I don’t post them on the blog. I write short ones and post them on Goodreads / NetGalley / Amazon – where it matters – but writing and formatting posts on the blog takes so long, I don’t feel like wasting my time to write more stuff about something I didn’t like. So I just throw it onto social media without too much thinking 😀

Follower numbers only really change how many review copies you will get when you request them, because you list your numbers, and they won’t consider you below a certain number sometimes. And also the numbers can make you feel less horrible about your blog xD at least, I suffered a lot when people had loads of followers and I almost didn’t have any. I don’t read YA, so that hurts my numbers a lot, but I always felt inferior about my follows. I have an alright number now, but it’s still two times smaller than most people who have been blogging for the same time as me. So when I am having a bad day, this thing bothers me xD but actually, subscribers still give you more visibility. At least a third of all my views come from subscribers. Another third from Twitter.

Yes, you are right about your interpretation, really. I should correct it.

I know BTW 🙂 but there are so many that are completely knew. Sometimes it feels like whole sentences can be shortened this way.

I’ve only been blogging for about 6 months so I think that may be it! I think eventually we all get used to the quirks of the blogging world though 😃

Nothing earth-shattering. I’m just better now at organizing my dates, setting up my posts, and creating time for shares/ Twitter stuff, etc. I had no idea abt a lot of things when I started. I just looked at other bloggers and did what did. Ha!