Reading Journal 2024 My Setup Challenges and All the Stats

Sabrina welcomes viewers to her channel and introduces her lengthy video showcasing her reading journal for the year. She explains that unlike the previous year, which had two separate videos, this year's journal is presented in one comprehensive video. Sabrina shares her excitement about using a Clever Fox journal, which is a new experience for her, and mentions some minor issues like ghosting and stamping bleed-through. She also discusses her choice of stamps and markers, providing alternatives for some retired stamp sets, and hints at the organization and personal touches she's added to her journal.

Sabrina details her process of setting up the reading journal, starting with stamping titles and using various stamps from her collection. She discusses her decision to use the Well Red collection by Ashley Horton and plans to add stickers later. Sabrina also talks about her approach to the '2024 books' page, where she intends to cover the page with tiny book covers of the books she reads, and her choice to use colored pencils to avoid bleed-through. She shares a humorous moment where she stamps 'let's get lit' at the bottom right corner of the page.

In this section, Sabrina moves on to setting her reading goals for the year, inspired by a similar page from the previous year. She plans to spread out her goals over two pages, using bars or rectangles to distinguish between them. Sabrina also discusses her decision to remove some temporary decorations and the use of washi tape. She lists her reading goals, which include reading 125 books, 55 audiobooks, and specific numbers of middle-grade, graphic novels, non-fiction, award winners, chunky books, and series.

Sabrina describes her process for creating pages for monthly favorite books and annual statistics. She revisits a favorite layout from past years using frames and stamps for the monthly faves page. For the annual stats page, inspired by L, she documents various reading statistics in one place, such as total books, pages read, and minutes listened. Sabrina also shares her mistake in stamping '2004' instead of '2024' and her solution to fix it.

Sabrina talks about adding stickers to her journal, including customizing a sticker with her hair color and adding the 'currently reading' title page. She discusses the bleed-through issue with markers and decides to use colored pencils for future pages. Sabrina also shares her process of creating the '2024 goals' page with banners and boxes for her reading goals.

In this part, Sabrina focuses on creating visual representations of her bookshelves and the Goodreads challenge. She uses stamps and stickers to build the bookshelves and plans for potential inserts if she needs more space. For the Goodreads challenge, she hand-draws over 150 boxes to track her progress and discusses the simplicity and effectiveness of this approach.

Sabrina outlines her method for tracking annual reading statistics and library savings. She creates a simple grid system to log various categories of stats and uses a pen and die cuts for a clean layout. She also plans to document her library savings by drawing lines for each month and calculating the total savings.

Sabrina discusses her least favorite page, the A to Z challenge, due to the large font size of the stamps used, which made the page too busy. She then moves on to the genres page, where she uses an outline stamp set to list the genres she plans to track, including romance, young adult, graphic novels, and children's books, as well as bonus categories like favorite and tearjerker.

Sabrina shares her excitement for the '12 books, 12 friends' section, where she lists books recommended by friends and Instagram suggestions. She also discusses the 'Read Around the USA' challenge, which she enjoyed in the previous year and plans to continue with a self-paced approach, allowing her to track books set in different regions of the United States.

In the final part of her journal setup, Sabrina prepares for the 'Rate the Romance' challenge by creating clear stickers with spicy sentiments. She also reviews the entire reading journal, showcasing the cover, goals, monthly faves, stats, shelves, Goodreads challenge, A to Z, genres, '12 books, 12 friends,' 'Read Around the USA,' and 'Rate the Romance' pages. Sabrina concludes the video with a walkthrough of her journal's layout and a sign-off.