
Member Reviews

Fun ideas of bookish activities to participate in over the summer! It’s an adult boook camp! Much more fun than requires summer reading in school.

I love the idea!
I think I don't interact with the bookish community online enough to fully enjoy (though I *want* to!) This is encouraging me to post more on Instagram.

Camp NetGalley was a blast. I was sad to not be able to do all of it on time because of life (moving, family events etc) but even catching up late was a great addition to my summer.

I love the idea of this Camp NetGalley event. It's a great idea to bring together readers and promote net galley. I like the badge ideas and the stickers. It's very cute and campy! Ideas for next year would be mail out stickers instead or something tangible that promotes net galley.

The welcome packet is a lot! It is very informative and gave me a really great idea of what the NetGalley community is like. I certainly did not expect there to be so many activities and involvement. I honestly felt a bit overwhelmed, but that might just be me since I am not accustomed to big activities like this. The art is cohesive and definitely sets the summer mood.

I think this is a great way to get the community reading together and engaging about the books that are being read or going to be read. I would like to see something similar, although maybe on a smaller scale, done throughout the year for other various things (winter, holidays, spring?). Somehow tying in some polls to share with everyone to see which books people are most excited for (kinda like the cover love section in the newsletter). Overall, though I think this is really clever and I hope it's something that continues.

I've never done this before so don't currently have any feedback! I am enjoying figuring it out though!

I love the idea of a grown up book challenge for the summer. I can’t wait to dive in.
Everything looks so much fun Based on my initial read through. I also loved the bingo from the beginning. Here’s to a fun month

What a great idea for kicking up my summer reading. I have never done reading-related challenges before, but I found the Bingo in the welcome packet to be a great time. I'd love to see more reading challenge content in the next one! Additionally, I joined just in time for the scavenger hunt, and my inner child is feeling so giddy at bringing back joy and social connection to summer reading.

This was such a fun idea! I love how netgalley is trying to get everyone on this app involved in fun activities together.
I think that the BINGO was my favourite. I hope netgalley does more things like this in the future!

I really enjoyed camp netgalley! I thought the “bunks” was creative and would have loved to see more events/goals tied to the bunks and what you chose. I LOVED the bingo and the idea of submitting a review you’re proud of for a talent show.

This has been a fun learning experience for the the month of July. I really liked the bingo card suggestions

Love it! I am also so grateful for these fun activities to do. The Camp NetGalley welcome packet is fantastic. I hope that it is provided each year. Thanks, NetGalley!

Questo pacchetto di benvenuto spiega molto bene come verrà organizzato il Camp NetGalley, diviso per settimane e attività. Può essere un passatempo molto interessante per gli amanti dei libri.

This is a great idea but I didn’t find it to be user friendly. Maybe it’s just me. I thought it was an electronic guide but I can’t add my notes etc unless it’s printed.

Thanks so much, NetGalley, for this fun interactive way to celebrate summer reading by earning badges for our account. I think it's obvious that we all adore badges and ribbons and buttons - that's why so many of us talk about reaching those next tiers of reviews to get our 100, 200, 500, etc. badges.
With that in mind, my only suggestion for next year (or other future events) is MORE ways to earn MORE badges! Since they're a motivation and inspiration for us readers and reviewers, more badges are definitely an enticement that we strive to achieve.

Fun prompts for the summer and summer reading. I liked the templates that could be used on social media. I would have liked to have had bingo boards that were in certain genres because I would not read some of the options on the bingo board that is currently in this packet.

This is really cute!
I'm proud of my review for Earls Trip by Jenny Holiday. I really enjoyed that book and it was so charming it made me feel like kicking my little feeties.

Summer is all about talking and sharing books! Reading out of doors or sprawled inside with a fan roving over you to beat the heat. Kids in the library turning books around on the shelves and leaving them a disaster zone, but creating more breathing room for the junior fiction than you've seen in months. I love it! And having something for us adult readers and promoters of book culture sweetens the summer just so much. Let's be real, I'd love to have an actual camp getaway filled exclusively with reading and endless conversations about books.

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I think this is my best review yet. This is also such a cool idea and a great way to get more interaction for pages. I hope that this is something that will be done more often.