What is a book jar?
Basically, a book jar is pretty much when you find a jar, write/print all of your unread book titles onto some paper, cut the paper into slips with the titles on them and then put them into the jar.
Why have a Book Jar? What is the point?!
Like I said above this is probably going to come in most useful for those of us that have an embarrassingly huge to-be-read pile among our collection of books. So, the point of a book jar: when you inevitably get to a point of reading where you are unsure which book you would like to read next, you can just open your book jar, pull out a book and you read the book you picked from the jar!
What do I need to make a Book Jar?
To make a Book Jar, the only things you need is an empty jar, lots of paper (more paper for the more books you need to write down), either a pen or a printer to write or print the book titles onto the paper and some scissors. That's all you need to make your Book Jar!
How do I make a Book Jar?
Making a Book Jar is super easy, here's some pictures depicting the process I went through to make mine!
First off you'll need an empty jar.
I just used this empty used up Nutella jar.
You'll probably want to get the label ripped off the jar.
You can do this at any point, before or after you have all the book titles ready to go in the jar, it's not a huge deal.
I decided to type up and print out the book titles as opposed to writing them because I genuinely don't think my hand could have coped with writing them all down!
I cut up all of the book titles into little individual slips that would go into the jar. I also decided to mark all of my review books with a green sharpie, just so I'd have a pre-warning of whether it is or isn't a review book when I pull a book from the jar.
I folded each of the individual slips in half twice and then put them all into the jar for choosing at a later date!
And that's it! I understand that my Book Jar looks pretty plain and dull, but you can decorate the outside of the jar however you like to make it more pretty and fun!
I'd just like to add that this idea is not my own. I got this idea from a video that was made by Sarah on her YouTube channel "MOTHEREFFINGBOOKS" (http://www.youtube.com/user/mothereffingbooks/videos?view=0)!
Also, keep in mind that if you don't fancy the idea of making a Book Jar for all of the unread books in your collection, you can do this for other things like maybe you want to read specific books during the Summer holidays but don't know what order to read them in, you could use this idea to help you choose!
I hope you enjoy this idea as much as I did and remember if you end up making a Book Jar of your own, let me know in the comments below! Tell me how you decorated it, what are you using it for? So that's it for this post, thought I would just share this awesome idea with everyone, I think this is going to really catch on!
