About EKReader
Hello and Welcome to EKReader, I’m EK aka Ed Karn to most, Edward Karn to some, and Eddie Karn to my oldest classmates. To my favorite people, I also answer to Granddad, if I hear them or GRANDDAD!!!! if I don’t.
I also blog at E.K.Karn. EKReader is designed to focus only on books! Like many lifelong readers, I have been reading forever. However, I didn’t really start keeping a record of what I was reading until 1987. From 1987 until Goodreads I kept records in Book Journals. When Goodreads started I input all my reads from 1987 into their system. I also tried to put in other books that I read pre-1987 as best as I could remember. There are now 1,174 books on my Goodreads shelves. You can check them out here
Over the last few years the number of books I read each year has skyrocketed. The main reason may be that I have more time to read because I’m semi-retired. However, I also believe that a reason is that I have established Reading Challenges each of those years. Trying to met the various challenges have kept my reading more focused.
My 2018 Reading Challenges
Here is a link to this year’s various Reading.Challenges. My overall goal is to read 65 books, which will be the most I’ve ever read in a year, at least since I’ve been keeping records.
As of today I have read 33 books in 2018. I need to finish two more books before the end of July to at least stay on pace to read 60 books.
EKReader tackles the 2018 Book-Tube-A-Thon
Recently, I discovered the world of booktubers. While I have yet to make a booktube, video I decided to participate in the Reading Challenge. So here are the books that I chose to meet the various challenges.
Final Thoughts
Finally, you may have surmised that this site is still a work in progress. Right now I have imported posts I have written in 2018. I have written many more posts about the books I read from 2010 to 2017. I am going to import them and organize them in an order that will make them more accessible to the site’s readers.
So once again Welcome! and I hope you will return and join me as I explode our world and others via books!!