I give up

It's literally midway of May. 

 I had several issues, very little time for reading, the stress of work and to top it all Scribd played a bad move on me. 

 Suddenly all the audiobooks were removed from me until after the 30th... I was super surprised and not in a good way.  I had seen a lot of people complain about Scribd having fake advertisement and that it didn't really have unlimited access as it claimed but I had ignored them. I mean mostly I thought that it gave you the option to choose from the most recent releases in a limited way but the rest of the books, older titles were not affected like this.

 I was wrong. I picked in my TBR several, most of my books from Scribd and also most in audio format. But then around the maybe 12 - 13 I noticed one of my books was not available and I thought to myself, oh damn I made a mistake it was not on audiobook. Oh well, and I picked another one to replace it. But then the next one was also no available. That made me suspicious, so I started to look for some others, the rest of my books were also gone!!

 So now I am not able to even pretend to be able to accomplish my reading challenges, I will continue to try but I really am giving up. I don't think I will be able to so not going to worry about it anymore.  

 Goodbye beautiful TBR. I will do what I can but it won't be much XD

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