Re-Establishing My Love of Books & Reading

Using Substack Chat Effectively

Dec 01, 2024

This week, I feel quite proud of myself as I have managed to control my social media input, which, in turn, has improved my mental health. Books and reading are my passion, so I am concentrating on this with my social media. The book community is very welcoming, whether on TikTok, Instagram or other sites.

Discussing books with people is the only thing better than sitting down with a good book.

Next year, I plan to try to build a strong community of bookworms mainly because these are the people I want to hang around with. I spoke this week about my reading goals for 2025.

Before we proceed with my plans, I need to say whether you read 100 books a year or 2; there is no difference. Reading should not be a competition. It should be about enjoyment. Incidentally, if you read two books a year, you read more than the average adult.

While we are clearing up book-related arguments, audiobooks are 100% reading. If you use audiobooks, you are using your time more effectively and can read when others can not.

To grow my community, I will use a feature that I have not been using to its full potential on Substack: chat. Since joining Substack, I have struggled with using the chat feature effectively. In 2025, that will change for my The Book Chronicles chat, I will run a book club where we can read and discuss classic books. You can learn which books in the article below.

On this newsletter chat, I am opening it up to you. If you have a question about Substack and writing, drop it in the chat. I hope we can build a community where not only do I answer your questions, but my amazing readers help each other out.

If you haven't downloaded the Substack app, I urge you to do so, as this is one of the easier ways to access the chat feature. I will see you all there.

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Until next week, stay safe

Sam 😊