I think I took the longest pause from making polls and for that I’m sorry. The responses are so interesting to go through! They also remind me very quickly how different readers are, which is 1) why we need diverse books!!!! and 2) how we can never have too many books!!!
For this poll, I’m just giving two options but I’d like to think two is already TOO much. (Watch it still be super easy.) All you need to do if drop your vote as a comment below.
Would you rather:
1) Have 7 minutes of free shopping in a bookstore (this can be the bookstore of your choice, BUT you can’t label anything ahead of time AND allll the books are placed haphazardly a.k.a. not even alphabetical order or by category).
OR
2) Have a $70 gift certificate to a bookstore (but I’m not talking discount bookstore. Books are whole price).
Vote in the comments below to let us know how you would get at the ~free~ books!
Book Princess Reviews 
Are the books ebooks? 70$ would be my choice. I don’t perform well under the pressure of time
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Nope! Ebooks are priced too friendly for this challenge. They must be physical copies for this. (Is that too evil of me?) I would struggle so hard with the time constraint too, just scrambling to find some good books with the clock ticking away in the background. Ahh D:
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7 minutes of free shopping in a bookstore. Easy.
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So much confidence! Even with all the books mixed and jumbled, I couldn’t shake your resolve? Haha, thanks for voting Annalee!
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Um obviously seven minutes of free shopping. I would just shove all the books to the cart lol. 😁
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Alll the beautiful books, yours! After seven minutes, you would need some bookshelf shopping soon lol.
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I would take the $70 gift card. I like having time to browse, read a chapter or two, and enjoy my time in a bookstore.
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That’s well thought out! I do much the same, getting the feel of a book before committing, even if the book will be free. I need to vet my paper family haha. 😉
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I’d definitely take 7 minutes in the bookstore. I could find a lot of books that I want to read in 7 minutes.
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Yes! There might be a lot of cover judging and skim summary reading, but if you don’t know your book tastes by now, what have you been doing all this time? 😉
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7 minutes of free shopping in a bookstore! If I ran, I could probably get more books than with $70. Probably😂😂
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Run super fast!! And read those summaries even faster!! It sounds totally doable to me! 👍👍
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Ooh, this is tricky, but I think I’d like the gift certificate as I’d enjoy having time to browse without feeling under pressure. I’m also a bit of a picky reader so the 7-minute plan might not work out too well! Thank you for the fun poll! 😊
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No, you wouldn’t want to end up with books that don’t match your tastes! The gift certification is def a good choice so you can go through the shelves (and know it’s all paid for!) Thanks for voting!!
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I’d estimate that with $70 I could get 3-4 books at full price? But with 7 minutes I could grab as many as my arms can hold, even if they’re disorganized! SO I’d definitely choose 7 minutes of free shopping 😄
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Doing the math is so important here, haha. You need to optimize the book gain!! Smart choice and thanks for voting 😀
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Sadly, $70 doesn’t go very far these days. I’d definitely just take what I could get in the 7 minutes! I have such a huge list of books I want, I’d be guaranteed to find things I wanted in that time 😀
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Yes, I love to support authors but book prices are so high these days it’s a very sad reality. We need to take the discounts when we can get them!
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Omg I’d totally go with the seven minutes and I feel like it’s an easy choice to make too? I even LOVE how they’d be all over the place, without any organization to it whatsoever? That way I’ll actually pick up books because their title / cover intrigues me and not because “OH. YA. YES. I NEED THIS AND THAT BOOK BECAUSE PEOPLE TALK ABOUT IT.”
Like. I wouldn’t have that nagging voice in the back of my head saying what books I should buy because they’re “hyped” and stuff. Yes plea-hease.
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Ooooh, how did I not realize my disorganization strategy could work in FAVOUR of the shopper??? That is so TRUE!!! Petition for all book stores to be terribly disorganized from now on so we can shop with true intentions. (Remembers many large books stores have thousands of books.) Um. Maybe not.
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Hahaha! Okay. Maybe we should go with the smaller and regular bookstores only. And then the large stores still need to have some kind of age-division or something!
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At *least* age-division!
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Hard one, in 7 minutes I could just grab as many as possible. But with 70$ I could really get what I want 🤔
I guess I will go for the 70$
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Smart play! Take your time and choose books you know you’ll like. Thanks for voting 🙂
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I would deff take the 7 minutes of any free books! I feel like I judge a lot of books by their cover already, so it would be a grab-bag kind of experience which would be a lot of fun! This would also give me a reason to share those books with other people (if I don’t actually end up liking some etc.) instead of keeping them all for myself :]
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Yes, we can’t forget the fun aspect!! Running about the aisles, scanning the covers like, hmm, what could this be about? And awwww yes, sharing your spoils is a huuge benefit 😉 😀
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I like choice 1. I think I could get my 7 minutes worth of free books, even if I had to hunt a little.
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Right? I’m pretty confident I could too. Use a bit of cover-judging skill!
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I think I’d prefer the 7 minutes. By this point, I know my reading style pretty well, and though I might make a few misjudgments, I can probably find more that $70 worth of books in 7 minutes.
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It’s great knowing what kind of stuff you like, and you can target them on the shelves right away! That would totally make a seven minute shopping spree a breeze!
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7 minutes of free shopping!!! Just grab anything I recognize and go go go!
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Who can say no to as many free books as you can grab??
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