Whether you are a seasoned bookworm or just discovering the joy of reading, the Library has something for everyone.
From December 16 - February 8, log your days read using Beanstack, or use a reading log available at your local Library. The Beanstack app is available on Google Play or Apple. Listening to audiobooks counts toward your days read.
Receive a light-up Library pen with stylus for signing up.
Upon logging 30 days of reading, earn a Library winter hat, while supplies last.
Earn grand prize drawing tickets for 10, 20 and 30 days of logged reading for chances to win one of five grand prize packs.
Grand Prizes
1. Akron Children’s Museum
One-Year Family Membership for up to 9
2. Akron Zoo Get Closer Tour: Animal Ambassadors
For 4 guests, ages 5+, available year-round on Friday, Saturday, Sunday or Monday at 10:30 a.m. (Offered Saturday & Sunday ONLY in August) and includes Zoo admission for the day. Interact and have fun with 3 of our education animal ambassadors, like Dasy the armadillo, Forest the porcupine, Chloe the kinkajou and many more animals!
3. Kindle Bundle
Kindle Paperwhite e-reader + case + power adapter.
4. Night Out with Akron Symphony Orchestra and El Patrón Tequileria & Cuisine
2 tickets to March 29 Akron Symphony Orchestra Mozart and Beethoven Concert and $100 gift card to El Patrón Tequileria & Cuisine
5. Nintendo Switch Bundle
Nintendo Switch Lite, memory card, case and Super Smash Brothers game.
All Grand Prize tickets must be redeemed by 5 pm on February 8, 2024. Grand Prize drawings will be held the week of February 17. Winners will be contacted directly.
Team Winter Reading
Team Winter Reading is open to groups in the Akron-Summit County Public Library service area, including adult day programs, early childhood programs, and classrooms. Group leaders and teachers should contact their local library for a code to sign up for Team Winter Reading on Beanstack. Group leaders will log reading on Beanstack. All reading counts, including listening to audiobooks.
All groups who achieve 20 days of reading will earn a digital “brag” sign and will be entered in a drawing to win a hot chocolate and cookies party. A digital copy of the sign will be emailed to the group leader to post to celebrate the achievement.
The Library's official service area includes the City of Akron and all of Summit County except for Barberton, Cuyahoga Falls, Hudson, Peninsula, Stow-Munroe Falls, and Twinsburg, which are served by independent libraries.
