Hobbies
Reading challenge Template
A year of books, with prompts that push you past what you would have picked anyway.
Four steps
How to print a reading challenge
- 1
Start from this form
Opens on the reading challenge: Year, Target, Books, Prompts to fill: a debut, a translation, one over 500 pages, one recommended to you and the rest.
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Put your own heading on it
Replace "Reading Challenge" with a name, a business or a date range.
- 3
Set the row height
24 rows at 6 mm fits more in; 14 mm suits a form filled in by hand.
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Print or save as PDF
The target, and set it lower than feels ambitious is the line to get right.
Who prints this
Anyone who reads plenty but always in the same groove, and anyone running a challenge for a book group or a class.
The field that decides whether it works
The target, and set it lower than feels ambitious. A number you pass in October gets extended; one you miss in August gets abandoned along with the sheet.
Why it is laid out this way
The books table and the prompts are kept separate because they do different jobs: one records, the other steers. Prompts sit in open lines so you can cross out the ones that do not suit you and write your own, which is the version people actually finish.
What is on the sheet
3 sections, in this order: Year, Target; Books; Prompts to fill: a debut, a translation, one over 500 pages, one recommended to you. Set the row height anywhere between 6 and 14 mm across its 24 ruled rows, put your own heading at the top, and find the reading challenge alongside 5 other forms on the hobby trackers page.
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