You Might Be A Book Blogger If…

I asked and you answered! You guys provided lots more ways to know if you’re a book blogger: I’ve added them to the list w/ link love. Feel free to keep sharing-I’ll keep adding! :)

1. You know the best way to get to all libraries and bookstores within a twenty mile vicinity of your house. And when out and about with friends and family, you casually drop into the conversation “You know, the bookstore’s just five minutes up the road-we could pop in quickly.”
2. Your knowledge of acronyms rivals that of a government bureaucrat: ARC, LT, YA, WP, BBAW…they hold no mystery for you.
3. You find yourself working out international shipping because a book you really want to read has been published in another country first and to wait a few months is unacceptable. Or just because the cover art is so much better!
4. Your blog feed reader is a constant challenge to the programmers to see just how many blogs can be stuffed in there.
5. You check your posts at least once an hour to see if there are any new comments. There is a correlation between said comments and your mood shifts.
6. You maintain a list of all of the books you want to read, despite the fact that in order to actually finish said list you’d need to read 2 books a day for the rest of your life.
7. You’re on a first-name basis with your mailman, because he regularly deposits book-shaped packages on your doorstep.
8. Twice a year, you explain to friends and family that no you can’t do anything that weekend because you’ll be staying up for twenty-four hours reading constantly. And to please not call you.
9. As soon as you finish a book, you rush to your blog to add it to your ‘books read’ list. And perhaps strike it off a challenge list for good measure!
10. Upon reading this list, you immediately come with at least three more signs! So share them in comments or on your own blog!
11. You are positively delighted to find LibraryThing in piratetalk and after finding your family’s reaction wanting, you run off to post about it on your blog and are thrilled to find that others are as tickled about it as you are.” –Megan
12. Someone recommends a book to you and you go check to see the reviews on LibraryThing or your favorite bloggers sites. –Rebecca
13. You sneak books into the house, hoping no one notices your new purchases –Diane
14. Your spouse refers to your pc as your ‘other lover.’ –Susan
15. You’ve never met some of your closest friends! –BermudaOnion
16. You use your iPhone primarily to keep track of books you want and to Twitter, because that’s where all your bookish friends hang out when they’re not blogging. –Fizzy Thoughts
17. while reading a book you’re silently thinking to yourself which of your blogger friends might also enjoy it. –Heather
18. You know everything that is going on in the literary world in seconds flat but are oblivious to national and international news, because well, it’s not in your blogstream. –hagelrat
19. You’ve taken to wearing book-themed bling that doesn’t make sense to non-book bloggers (i.e. Cybils or BBAW). –Melissa
20. The librarians at your regular library can address you by name on sight. –Doret
21. People start to tell you where you can find more libraries, more bookstores. –Bybee
22. The first thing you do when you wake up is check your email, check your twitter, and check google reader. –Chris
23. You regularly visit libraries and bookstores on vacation! –J.T. Oldfield
24. You plan your vacations to meet your much-loved book blogging friends and to fit in all the best bookstores. –Debi
25. You have a book in your car, another in the bathroom, another on your nightstand, another in the den and another in digital form. –Dave

I thought I’d have some fun this Saturday, especially since we’ve all been caught up in blog-y craziness this week. :) Sometimes, it’s easy to take things a mite too seriously. But at the end of the day, as much as I love book blogging and book bloggers, I’m sure that we look crazy to outsiders. :D Have a good weekend everyone!

Get your own fun reading-related posters, like the one I’ve pictured here, and more from the American Library Association’s store. I’m still partial to the bracelet, myself.