5 Ways To Celebrate National Read A Book Day

September 6 is National Read a Book Day! Here are five ways to celebrate one of our favorite days of the year!

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Start a book club! Gather some friends and read the same book at that same time. And discuss!

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Go to the library! Libraries offer so many more resources that just books.

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Send a book to a friend! Or participate in a book exchange on Elfster.

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Start a little book library locally! Also known as "Little Free Libraries" they are community book exchanges.

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Make a "To Be Read" List of books you want to read for the rest of the year! A great way to do this is on Goodreads.com.

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