Be a Reading Machine: Flex Your Brain & Enjoy New Stories This Winter

Posted on December 11, 2024 at 7:00 am

Winter Reading 2025: Be a Reading Machine

JANUARY 1–31, 2025

Can you become a reading machine? Let’s find out!

Challenge: Read 300 minutes during the month of January.

How you can power up and be victorious:

• Read for 20 minutes each day
• Track your reading using Beanstack (website and app)
• Earn badges as you read
• Hack your brain to complete activities for more badges
• Get a total of 300 reading minutes or more to win!

Registration opens December 15, 2024. The reading challenge begins January 1, 2025.

Badges & Bingo

Ready, set, READ!

Unlock a new, colorful badge for every 30 minutes of reading, up to the final challenge goal of 300 minutes.

Reflect on the past year and set new reading goals for 2025.

Gain activity badges when you think and reflect on your reading:

• Set reading goals for the month of January or the whole year
• Identify a support person to help you stay on track
• Describe what a reading machine means to you & what makes someone a reading machine
• Reflect on your reading habits
• Imagine how you will add tracking your reading progress to your daily routine
• Celebrate your achievements (plan your reward ahead of time!)

We encourage readers of all ages to challenge themselves to become reading machines this winter.

Fill your virtual bingo card with badges.

Each badge you collect in the challenge gets you closer to virtual bingo! Can you get bingo in different directions—up and down, side to side, diagonally? Gather all badges to complete the whole bingo card!

More about Beanstack

Easily keep track of your reading and the badges you earn on the Beanstack website or with the Beanstack mobile app. The mobile app even has a timer, making tracking even easier.

Get personalized book recommendations from Beanstack based on your reading interests, helping you discover new titles and authors in SCLD’s collection.

The whole family can be added with one login—making for easy access and tracking.

You can also add your book review to Beanstack to help other readers find their next read. And check out others’ reviews to find yours.

Social Media & Sharing

Share your progress and success during the reading challenge with these hashtags:

#WinterRead2025 #ReadingMachine #SCLDReads

Tag SCLD and Beanstack (Zoobean) in your socials to increase the chance of SCLD winning a library prize (more on that below).

We will be following along!

Library Prizes

Thousands of other libraries and schools across the nation are competing in this challenge for a chance at winning prizes for their communities. The “Be a Reading Machine” challenge is sponsored by Beanstack and Baker & Taylor.

Beanstack is awarding prizes to top-performing libraries and schools (no individual prizes this time).

Winners are determined based on several factors, including:

• Active participation: Based on the percentage of enrolled readers who actively participate in the challenge.
• Logging statistics: Based on how many minutes, books, and activities that readers log.
• Community sharing: Posting the hashtags #WinterRead2025 and #ReadingMachine on social media gives SCLD a boost. Spread the love of reading with your community.

Happy reading, Spokane County!

Tags: adults, Beanstack, books, kids, reading, reading challenge, reflect, stories, teens, tweens