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Welcome to Go Book Yourself, the Hungry Reader summer book club! This blog post is the OFFICIAL rules; these rules may be reposted, but this will always be the most current version. Updates will be listed at the top.<\/p>\n

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How It Works<\/h3>\n

If you ever participated in the Pizza Hut “Book It!” reading program, you’ll be familiar with how Go Book Yourself works. The big difference is that I’ll be double-checking everything you turn in for prizes– I’m just one dude, I can’t afford to eat the cost of a personal pizza for all the kids who only pretended to read all those books!<\/p>\n

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  1. Post the Go Book Yourself! logo, shown above, to your personal space on the Internet, whether it’s social media or your own website. On social media you can also reblog the Hungry Reader’s posting of the same picture.<\/li>\n
  2. Simply share links to The Hungry Reader, whether to his videos or to jarringcontrast.com, on your favorite social media, message boards, and content aggregation sites. THR recommends you check his Twitter<\/a>, Facebook<\/a>, and Tumblr<\/a>, as retweeting, reblogging, and sharing his own video announcements all count toward your total! (Also, why not follow him on those sites while you’re there?)<\/li>\n
  3. When you post a link to the Hungry Reader, save a permalink to the tweet\/status\/Tumbl(?)\/message board post, and keep a list of all of them– just like the list of Book It! books you read that you kept as a kid. Remember to save the permalink: it’s found in a different place for each one.
    \nFacebook:<\/strong>\u00a0A status’s permalink is found by clicking the date under the name of the poster.
    \nTwitter:\u00a0<\/strong>Clicking on the “…” symbol under a Tweet brings up a menu. Click on “Copy Link To Tweet” to get the permalink.
    \nTumblr:\u00a0<\/strong>Click the top right corner of any post to go to its permalink: you’ll know you’re doing it right when the corner of the post “dog-ears” and folds over.<\/li>\n
  4. When you feel you’ve saved up\u00a0enough links to get the reward you were hoping for, paste your list of links into an email to hungryreader@gmail.com. That’s the only<\/em>\u00a0place you can send them, posting the list on social media doesn’t count! Don’t worry about sending details about your picture\/commercial\/book, I’ll solicit them when I send you your confirmation email.<\/li>\n
  5. Send your list of links to me (hungryreader@gmail.com) by September 7, 2015.<\/strong> That’s Labor Day– traditionally the last day before school starts. (Unless you live in my district, where the kids have already been back in school for two weeks… what the hell, California!) It’s totally okay to send it before then, too!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    What You Can Win<\/h3>\n